Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Tom Tomorrow begins to assemble a comics team at Daily Kos

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Once upon a time
by Tom Tomorrow
[Don't forget to click to enlarge.]

by Ken

When Tom Tomorrow signed on with Daily Kos following his long stint with Salon, one of his stated reasons was the opportunity to build an actual comics team there. Assuming you can find the Comics section (the link is http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics, but unless I remember that, am I doomed to continue searching every time for "Tom Tomorrow" or "This Modern World" to eventually get there?), you can now see the rollout of some of what he had in mind.

Animal Nuz, which I confess I don't really get, has been appearing for a while. Now two new strips have been introduced. (Again, don't forget to click on each to enlarge it.)

Now appearing on Wednesdays: Jen Sorensen's Slowpoke

Jen Sorensen is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer best known for her weekly comic "Slowpoke" which appears in alternative newspapers around the nation. Her work has been published in the Village Voice, Ms. Magazine, LA Times, Nickelodeon, and NPR.org. In 2010, Jen received a Grambs Aronson "Cartoonist With a Conscience" award, part of the James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism given out by Hunter College. She has also won several awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. More of her writing and art can be seen at Slowpoke Comics.

Now appearing on Fridays: Matt Bors

Matt Bors is a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist based in Portland, OR. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Village Voice, among others. His first graphic novel, War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalist David Axe, was published last year by New American Library. He has reported from Afghanistan and is the Comics Journalism Editor for Cartoon Movement.
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At 4:45 AM, Anonymous Annie K. said...

Ohhhh.
So it's established safe-bet already published talent he wants to "assemble".
And not, you know, to try to use his own "success" and the grass-roots-i-ness of a collaborative free-content web community to help new and undiscovered talent POSSIBLY find a voice.

Pretty radical world-changing stuff goin ' on there.

 
At 2:02 PM, Blogger KenInNY said...

Fair point, Annie. Of course I have no idea what kind of stuff our Tom has been looking at, but what he's come up with so far isn't exactly overwhelming -- and as you point out comes from people who, however marginally, are being published.

I think it's too soon to draw any conclusions, but maybe not too soon to be uneasy.

Cheers,
Ken

 

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