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Making Comics Fifty State Tour
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[Mar. 23rd, 2009|08:56 am] |
Important Message
I've relaunched my site and the front page blog, so I'm probably going to focus my travel updates there from now on. (just a bit too weird to be posting links to 2009 events on a page about a tour that wrapped up two years ago).
We'll keep mccloudtour open to preserve the archive of the fifty state tour from 2006-2007, but for future travel updates, check out the new scottmccloud.com.
And of course you can continue checking in on me and the family at:
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[Nov. 6th, 2008|12:48 am] |
Reminder...
TONIGHT, Thursday, November 6, 7:00 pm:
The Bronx, New York:
Manhattan College
(Yes, Manhattan College is in The Bronx -- go figure.)
And next week:
November 12-15:
Miami, Florida
The Miami Book Fair
Meanwhile, check out this awesome 9-Jack-9 costume worn for Halloween by reader Andrew Vestal:
And yes, the awesome Lori Matsumoto took pix of Winter's costume too, and we hope to post those soon.
Oh yeah, and THANK YOU, America, for breaking the ultimate barrier of prejudice in electoral politics: You actually elected the smart guy!
Also, I want to say how incredibly proud I am of Ivy for working her heart out to defeat the pointless and hateful Prop 8 here in California. We came very, very close, and I'm absolutely certain that when this kind of bigotry rears its ugly head again in the golden state, that a new generation will send it back to the stone age where it belongs. I love my wife and treasure our marriage MORE because she tried to extend that right to other loving couples and because we both witnessed such a union just last month. How anyone could think that their marriage could only thrive by denying such a gift to others is beyond me. |
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[Oct. 14th, 2008|09:50 pm] |
Upcoming Events...
Saturday, October 18: All Over the World
24 Hour Comics Day!
18 years since the original. What a long, strange trip it's been... No specific event planned for me personally, 'cause I'm on a deadline, but in the spirit of the day, I'll put in a crapload of hours.
Friday, October 24: Bowling Green, Ohio
Bowling Green State University
Thursday, November 6: The Bronx, New York
Manhattan College
November 12-15: Miami, Florida
The Miami Book Fair
More Details soon. |
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[Sep. 15th, 2008|09:16 am] |
Decatur, Georgia - Tuesday Night!
Sorry once again for the late notice.
I'll be speaking at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia tomorrow night. I'll try to post a little sooner next time. It's been a crazy month! |
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[Aug. 18th, 2008|02:40 pm] |
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Hi, I have decided to start posting my poems on my blog now. |
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[Aug. 11th, 2008|12:01 pm] |
I've decided to make this an ongoing every monday so here's the next one;
My heart has a pound
a thump, thump, thump
out of my body
it seems to jump
My love can only me seen
through beautiful, romantic, eyes
my heart just cannot be stopped
but something inside me dies
I want true love
a fairy tale ending
at one first kiss
so many emotions blending
Just one thing
a major set back
something that I can’t not face
a major spot in my heart that’s black
I don’t like anyone
in that that way
and when I do
to him, what to say |
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| random epiphany |
[Aug. 9th, 2008|01:31 am] |
So I was in bed trying to fall asleep when I decided to wright an autobiographical poem about what the goal that I have been working towards lately. So since I have not achieved my goal yet, the poem is not finished, but here are the first few stanzas;
On my p.e. mat
I sit upside-down
with 2 things on the floor
hands and crown
my legs are bent
because you see
if I did a full headstand
they would fall on me
I was the best at tripod
in my whole class
but when it came to headstands
I fell down like glass
because of this fact
as sad as it is
I got a c
on our p.e. quiz
now months later
and but two weeks ago
I decide I'd get it
then I mastered it like a pro
When I come back to school
I hope to have the next step
of a flat out hand stand
but I need to go prep.
to be continued... |
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| poem (yes another one) |
[Aug. 4th, 2008|02:03 pm] |
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I want to be happy
I like to grin
With a positive atitude
I might even win
Family is important
I care about them so
I can't even conseive
Of the day they go
When I go to college
Or school out far
I wont see them again
they'll be as far as a star
When I go to do
The thing of my dream
Wether singing on brodway
or making a seam
I'll try to be happy
I'll try very hard
I'll let happyness overcome me
First an inch, then a yard. |
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| poem again |
[Jul. 29th, 2008|01:18 am] |
Here is a more uplifting poem to balance out last weeks
The song of life
comes crashing down
put on your smile
lose that frown
The beat is coming
dance till you drop
if you always try
you’ll reach the top
Move your feet
the chance you get
it’s all yours
dance till you sweat
Life may be hard
what else can it be
but you can over come it
take it from me
When your out on the stage
and moving about
don’t hold it in
give me a shout
So yell so loud
it will give people a fright
and I will there
to help you with the sight |
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[Jul. 22nd, 2008|11:11 am] |
Special Offer: Print this flyer and bring it to the signing, and I'll say "hey, you printed my flyer!" |
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[Jul. 17th, 2008|04:23 pm] |
A very cute young woman just walked out of the library carrying Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art, and having flipped through McCloud's Understanding Comics.
That's what's missing in so many fangirls and boys: A need to understand the underpinnings of the art. There's entirely too much OMG I WILL DIE OF SQUEE CUZ THAT IS MADE OF SO MUCH AWESOME, and not enough "what makes that awesome?".
She said she'd just read the graphic novel Tricked, and the first webcomic she mentioned was Sinfest.
She was also tall, so to contemplate that after having let her disappear is just too much. |
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[Jul. 14th, 2008|01:32 pm] |
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Hello every one! sorry it has been so long since I've posted, but here I am with a poem that a wrote. You see, last night I was thinking allot about romance and sadness, so I decided to rite a poem for the young people who are sent off to war.
His words touched deep
as I fell in a state
as he said goodbye
we were laughed at by fate
my eyes melted down
as they closed into his
I tried to let us part
as hard as it is
he needed to sing
the song of love
one last time
before he took off to above
we both new
that soft quiet tune
but why asked I
why so soon
his soft silver hair
so nice to the touch
“please don’t leave”
I begged with it in my clutch
his soul screamed for help
it shouted with rage
his smile was posed
as if on a stage
what should i do
just stand there and watch
what I would do
to turn the pain down a notch
As we were so close
to both our first kiss
the plane came down
and shattered the bliss
he said that he would come back
and he would be okay
but when his team came back
he was m.i.a. |
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[Jun. 26th, 2008|09:16 am] |
Saturday at 10:30 am, I'll be signing at the Harper Booth (#1009). |
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[Apr. 24th, 2008|03:05 pm] |
[Cross-Posted, Yet Again, With smccloud]
This Weekend:
See you there!
Then: On the following Friday, May 2, I'll be speaking at the International Conference on Narrative at University of Texas at Austin.
Then: On Saturday, May 10, in Columbus, Ohio, it'll be Me and Jeff Smith in Conversation.
And finally, off to Oklahoma for a seminar. And you don't want to even know how much I'll be doing between those trips! |
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[Apr. 18th, 2008|08:04 am] |
Surprise!
The Long Lost Winterview #8 is up at last, featuring Neil Gaiman!
AND don't forget The Zot! panel at New York Comic Con Saturday at 3pm (and my panel with Douglas Rushkoff in only a few hours). |
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