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RLPeek: Jude Tobin

Mister Goldman — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:18:13 +0000

My sweets: I’m chomping at the bit until I can announce the specifics (soooon) of the launch/location of my new series RED LIGHT PROPERTIES, but I can tell you that I wrote the first version of RLP back in 2001 and I’ve spent the years between honing my skills to tell it. Every book, idea and project over the last few years bringing me another step closer to this baby.

Actually, I’m stopping myself here… There’s so much I want to tell you, but I’m going to save it for when I don’t have to be so goddamn mysterious. In the meantime, I can share with you an early character study for RLP’s main man, Mr. Jude Tobin:

I’ll have solid news as soon as I’m cleared to drop it. Promise.

Process: Obama’s Meddle

Mister Goldman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:38:53 +0000

I did an Intelligencer piece for New York Magazine today on Obama’s conflict with NY Governor Paterson. Click the image to see my Simpsonsesque initial sketch and then the final piece:

I-Open on YouCube

Mister Goldman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:43:03 +0000

This past spring during my visit to Ohio University’s Aesthetic Technologies Lab, I was kidnapped for an hour by Betsey Merkel, one of the brains behind the I-Open Foundation, which connects “thinkers” into a network in the hopes for problem-solving for social change.

Betsey ushered into one of the school’s screen-printing studios and showed me a diagram of beliefs and intents, then conducted one of the most original interviews I’ve ever had. She asked me fundamental but deep-drilling abstract questions about my core beliefs, my work, my perceived relation to the world, etc. In my defense, I was stuffed to the gills with antibiotics at the time, so enjoy my answers with a dash of salt, yeah?

I also love the YouCube presentation they used, where my interview is just a single facet of a 3D cube, talking simultaenously with five other interviewees. You can touch and play with it too; a fun thing I’ve never seen before:

More information on Betsey and I-Open can be found here.

Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption

Mister Goldman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:14:02 +0000

In connection with this year’s absolutely top-notch Comica Festival in London, I’ve written and drawn a six-page story called “Take Two” for the Comica-exclusive Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption anthology. Edited by Paul Gravett, the anthology is described as “a limited edition comic book which aims to highlight corruption as both the cause of poverty and a barrier to overcoming it, featuring original work from leading comic artists and creative figures from around the world.”

And as with Paul Gravett’s Comica, there’s some truly wonderful talent involved; frankly the prospect of being published alongside masters like Bryan Talbot and Pat Mills has got me all wiggly in the knees.

My contribution “Take Two” deals with injustice and manipulation here in the States, dressed as lifestyle; I describe it over at Comica’s site (in typically long sentences) as:

…a piece about the insidious and pervasive tango of the pharmaceutical/food industry and the media that sells it all to us as reality, how it affects/controls and even shapes culture… and the alternatives being kids quitting their “meds”, unplugging from media that dulls them, going outside, eating real food. I’m thinking more of a tone/image poem 6 pages in length, where we see these chains of manufactured consumer-reality from the point-of-view of a young man doubting who he is, where he comes from, and the possibilities inherent in breaking free of them.

You can hear me and some of my page-mates sounding off about our inspirations for our pieces here.

The Right Now of Comics

Mister Goldman — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:38:21 +0000

As promised, my DIY Days presentation “The Right Now of Comics” is right here, right now:

Unrelated: I’ve got a new series on stovetop; watch this space for news coming soon, my lovelies…

Neanderthals in TIME

Mister Goldman — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:57:15 +0000

The comic I’ve written/drawn for TIME magazine that accompanies this article on Neanderthals being hunted by Cro-Magnon man appears in this week’s issue with “Paging Dr. Obama” on the cover. Here’s an unlettered panel; unfortunately the piece is not online, but you can find it just about any local newsstand:

NY Magazine: Bad for the Jews?

Mister Goldman — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:29:07 +0000

New York magazine’s Intelligencer article “Bad for the Jews?” features an illustration by me this week; you can read the whole piece here:

August 3: Speaking at DIY Days

Mister Goldman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:07:52 +0000

This Saturday (August 3rd), I’m giving a talk on “The Future of Comics” at the cross-media conference DIY Days, put on by my friends at The Workbook Project. DIY Days is free for all; details are here:

If you can’t attend, my talk will likely be available online shortly after as well.

Reading Aloud in New York

Mister Goldman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:45:45 +0000

At the top of this year, a camera crew with the UK series Television Junction came by my studio to interview me for “Reading Aloud in New York”, the NY episode of their children’s-literacy program. Hosted by Jon Scieszka and featuring the New Yorker’s Françoise Mouly and others, it’s a quick look at the reading (and comic-reading) landscape for kids/young adults here in the Big Apple:

Intelligencer and Narcissism

Mister Goldman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:57:54 +0000

I’ve illustrated an Intelligencer piece in this week’s New York Magazine that compares the over-diagnosis of “narcissism” today versus the potency of a good old-fashioned insult:

Also: it made me all 08-nostalgic to draw a horrific Sarah Palin again for an evening… *sniff*.