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Our favourite fiction quarterly — the Australian produced Torpedo — is soon to release its second issue, which is jam packed with well-written, independent fiction. Torpedo 2 visits the Wild West Within and features fiction bullets from young American talents Yannick Murphy, Tony D’Souza, Greg Ames, Aaron Gwyn, Justin Taylor and Holly Tavel (all McSweeney’s regulars), as well as gunslingers from down under including Josephine Rowe, Luke May and Jon Bauer. Illustrated by two Englishmen and a Belgian, the saloon also has shady comics artists, Jeffrey Brown, Paul O’Connell and Brian Hoang propping up the bar. The release date is mid-May, but it’s available for pre-order now.
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Whether you’re a sequential artist, fine artist, illustrator, or a fan, the Swedish anthology C’est Bon will definitely light a fire in any creative spirit in need of some inspiration. The latest issue, Vol. 5, exhibits amazing talents from around the world, talents that I am humbly honored to be rubbing elbows with. They include Andrea Bruno, Emeilie Ostergren, and Marko Turunen, to name a few.
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Fernanda Cohen’s New York portfolio class
The brilliant New York illustrator, Fernanda Cohen — who just happens to live down the road from me in Brooklyn — is teaching a portfolio class at Third Ward starting this coming Tuesday. The course, Illustration Portfolio, ‘helps students build a professional portfolio strong enough for them to feel confident to show it to art directors in the illustration field, including editorial and advertising’. She will lead the class in discussions about ‘what goes into a portfolio, and how to choose your best work, and talk about art directors, who they are, and what they expect from illustrators they are looking to hire’. Visit the Third Ward website for more details.
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