Category Archives: Cartooning & comics

Cartoon: Immigration and Jobs

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Ampersand

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Immigration, Migrant Rights, etc | 56 Comments

“How To Make A Man Out Of Tin Foil!” is now online at Bitch Magazine!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Ampersand

My short story “How To Make A Man Out of Tin Foil” is online! This angsty story about boyhood and masculinity at a Jewish summer camp is now available on Bitch Magazine’s website. I did this story for the upcoming … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Sexism hurts men | 13 Comments

Now Selling Signed Copies of Hereville!

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Ampersand

Hey, folks. What with Chanukah and that other holiday coming up soon, I wanted to let you know that I’m selling copies of Hereville. Go here for all the details, or if you’d rather not see the details, you can … Continue reading →

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Three comments on the Tony Harris kerfluffle

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Ampersand

1) You’re embarrassing us, Tony. Just for the record, as a professional comic book creator, a lifelong comics fan, and someone who attends comic book conventions, I am happy to be sharing a subculture with cosplayers. Cosplayers don’t have to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Feminism, sexism, etc | 27 Comments

Tony Harris’s misogynistic rant translated into English

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Ampersand

On Facebook, the excellent cartoonist Tony Harris (whose most famous project is probably that he was the original artist of The Walking Dead) delivers a misogynistic rant, which (translated into Gollum-speak) would be: Female cosplayers! we hates them! I really … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics, Feminism, sexism, etc | 13 Comments

Portland Opera’s “Don Giovanni”

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Ampersand

Portland Opera has a delightful habit of inviting a bunch of Portland-area cartoonists, including me, to come watch dress rehearsals and post drawings of what we see. So on Monday (which was my birthday, so that worked out nicely), I … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartooning & comics | 3 Comments

Blog Hop! Blog Hop!

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Ampersand

I’ve been asked by poet and my “Alas” co-blogger Richard Jeffrey Newman to participate in a Blog Hop in order to introduce new authors to new readers. If you’ve come here from the link posted on Richard’s blog, welcome! If … Continue reading →

Posted in Hereville | 7 Comments

Two great long-form political cartoons

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Ampersand

I really like long-form political cartoons, which we don’t see much of, I think because it’s hard to find a market to sell them to. But here are two great ones I came across this week: “Straw Feminists In The … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Comics I Like, Economics and the like | 6 Comments

Barry interviewed at VanCAF

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Ampersand

Here’s an interview I did with the wonderful Geneviève Bolduc of 4GeeksMedia. She and her various camera operators really did a great job.