My co-writer, Scott Cunningham, now have a blog dedicated to our next book with Henry Holt. The book is Bad For You: Exposing the War on Fun. The book chronicles the history of adult hysteria and moral panics around things kids love: comic books, video games, danger etc. But as it happens there are new [...]
The folks at NPeaches blog did and interview with myself and co-author Jeff Korgen. “At the MoCCA Art Fest in April, I discovered the work of comic book writer and illustrator Kevin C. Pyle who introduced me to his newest project – “Wage Theft” – a collaboration with social justice author Jeff Korgen. The comic [...]
It’s back from the printer and the co-author (Jeffry Odell Korgen) and I will be scheduling events soon. But until you can pick up your own copy, here are some links to the comics online: ENGLISH SPANISH
The advance reader copies of Bad For You have come in just in time for MoCCa. I’ll be sharing a table with Peter Kuper again (D110) if anyone wants to have a sneak peek at the new book or pick up a copy of an old one. The particulars: MoCCa Artfest April 6th & 7th, [...]
Young Audiences and Arts Horizons, in addition to the seemingly endless things that come my way from word-of-mouth, kept me busy driving up and down New Jersey last year. Most recently I had the pleasure to be a fly-on-the-wall with an experienced teaching artist and William Paterson professor as they consulted at Union City Middle [...]
I recently finished an activist comic with co-writer Jeffry Odell Korgen illuminating the rampant problem of Wage Theft in America. Working with Interfaith Worker Justice, we went down to Houston and gathered stories from victims of this little known but huge injustice. The bilingual comic we produced is intended to both educate workers about their [...]
In recent years I’ve had the pleasurable opportunity to work with the brilliant scholar McKenzie Wark on a series of “graphic essays” about the Situationsts, the legendary sixties French art movement. One happy side benefit of this project is that I’ve been designing Wark’s book covers on the subject. They incorporate fold out posters of [...]
“A thought provoking read, with important messages for all ages about forgiveness and finding happiness even in the most destitute of situations. Recommended for school library collections.” says, Tamzen Kulyk, a teacher-librarian at two elementary schools in the Saskatoon Public School Division in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It’s always cool to read reviews from far flung places [...]
on the Diamond website as part of Katie’s Korner Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2012 for Schools and Libraries “8. Take What You Can Carry by Kevin C. Pyle (Henry Holt and Co., 978-0-80508-286-9) From time-to-time I read a graphic novel that stays in my head, sort of like a song that you love and [...]
to be included in the Nexus Graphica Top Ten books of 2012! “Take What You Can Carry by Kevin C. Pyle (Henry Holt) This was a year where I seemed to read more “YA” graphic novels than usual, and this was one of the first I reviewed, back in early spring. Pyle’s dialogue is spare, [...]