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Publisher’s Weekly on Hereville: “one of the most original and comically...
Publisher’s Weekly has posted their starred review of Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite. (Note: some spoilers ahead, although not more than you’d get from reading the back cover.) Eleven-year-old...
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Christmas email to my niece
My nephew and niece reading Hereville on Christmas morning (My niece got a copy of my new book for Christmas, and emailed me saying that she enjoyed the book and asking me if I’ll sign it. I don’t...
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Barry interviewed on KBOO radio today!
[Updated: Time is 11:30am, not 11am. I'll update the post with a link to the archive once I've got it.] Me and cartoonist Jenn Manley Lee will be interviewed on KBOO at 11:30am pacific time today....
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Email From A “How To Make A Man Out Of Tin Foil” Reader
After Emerald City Comic-Con, I received this email from Kelley, who bought both Hereville and How To Make A Man Out Of Tin Foil from me at ECCC. This is the kind of email that really makes a...
View ArticleEmail of the day – Author Visit via Skype in a Georgia ELL classroom
I got this email last week (posted with permission, of course): I am an ELL [English Language Learners] teacher at Freedom Middle School in DeKalb County, Georgia. My students are all refugees who just...
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More comments that make my day (Tumblr edition)
First, This Is Not Jewish wrote, about “Hereville”: This is a real thing, guys…and a graphic novel to boot. EDIT: Be still my heart, it has a sequel too! And he’s working on a third! *squee* Then...
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My Niece Makes Tin Foil People
When kids read my rather depressing and angst-ridden short comic “How To Make A Man Out Of Tin Foil,” they pretty much all react the same way: They make little tin foil people, just as my character...
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So what’s with all those tiny pigs?
If you’ve met me at a comic book convention, you may have noticed the little herd of toy pigs decorating my table. I bought those when I was drawing the first Hereville book, to help me draw the pig...
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Over a hundred thousand sign petition against Disney’s Merida Makeover
To celebrate Merida of the Pixar film Brave “officially” joining the Disney Princess line, Disney released some new illustrations of her. In the new illustrations, Merida is even thinner than her...
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Just Saw “Rear Window” For The First Time
Just saw “Rear Window” for the first time. What a stunning, amazing movie! Actually – hard as this is to believe – as of a few days ago I had never seen any of Hitchcock’s movies. Now I’ve seen “A...
View Article“AJL Reviews” on Hereville: How Mirka Met A Meteorite
The latest issue of “AJL Reviews,” published by the Association of Jewish Libraries, includes a review of the second Hereville book! Here’s their concluding paragraph: Fans of Hereville: How Mirka Got...
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Steven Bergson Interviews Me About Hereville 2
It’s always fun being interviewed by Steven Bergson of Jewish Comics Blog, because he’s so prepared and knowledgeable. Here’s the first few questions from the interview he just posted: Jewish Comics...
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Sketchbook: “Starface”
My newest sketchbook page, “Starface.” I saw the “field of faces background” in another cartoonist’s drawing on Facebook and thought “I am definitely swiping that idea,” but now I can’t find the other...
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Profile of Barry in “The Bee.”
An article in “The Bee,” a local Portland paper. Foster-Powell cartoonist creates books for global readers By DAVID F. ASHTONfor THE BEE In his Foster-Powell studio, Barry Deutsch works on a page from...
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How I Foiled A Criminal In The Very Midst Of His Dastardly Crime!
Well, not so much “foiled” as “politely greeted.” I got home at about 11:50pm tonight; as I was walking in our front door, I ran into a man I didn’t know walking out that same door, wheeling a bike....
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