Archive for the ‘to teach’ Category

i can’t believe it’s really over

Monday, October 19th, 2009

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i finished to teach!  on time and everything!  i can’t even believe it!  it has to go through proofreading and some production hoo-ha, so it wont be out until Mayish.  In the meantime i’ve got a couple buns in the oven…  check here for a fun annoucnement and a lot more posts in general real soon!

about the authors

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

meandbill

introducing kira

Monday, September 14th, 2009

after a rigorous screening process, ohyesverynice studios has acquired a new intern!  it’s well known that working here is awful, but at least you get fed and you get  to write blogs.  you also get your portrait drawn, which may or may not be a privilege.  ok, that’s enough outta me~here’s kira (pronounced key-rah~ rhymes with she-ra).

 

kira

 brooklyn books
sunday i was lucky unlucky to sleep in - though the day was gorgeous outside for a change from this strange summer weather we’ve been unable to shake. the cold rainy days of september and if i was still in somerville i’d be singing bus stop, bus stop, but i’m not and there are no buses in my day to day but the ones i avoid when crossing the street to go to the subway, to catch a train, midafternoon to brooklyn to go to the bookfest there by borough hall.
all was glaring, dazzling, when i emerged amid the blue awnings of the various booths in the sundrenched tableau. i wandered here and there, listening vicariously to wallace shawn discuss his essays with a leggy female admirer. i caught a child sneezing on his grandfather’s head from his perch on grandad’s shoulders. they laughed and i laughed and the books were arrayed like jewels or spices: mysterious, enticing. but i’ve bought enough books to curb my appetite for a while and i was content to browse and chat a little with the purveyors until i met up with a friend and forsook the solace of solitude for company.
all too soon, we parted to find our separate paths: he to his home in prospect park, where his girlfriend awaited and i to the train to head up to greenpoint and do some work on this comic book - in truth i spend vigorous hours erasing pencil lines and watching tv series on the wii. today it was neil gaiman’s neverwhere. but usually, it’s weeds.
i searched for the g train in the heat and unfamiliar streets of a part of brooklyn i am still piecing together in my mind. i finally found the entrance and descended and read my book, the night sky, till i reached my stop - it’s a polish neighborhood, and the people in the polish movie posters look so happy. ryan buzzed me in and we chatted about this and that and then he made me a crepe and some coffee and i got to work. the sun set pinkly and characters shrieked in horror at beasties in the bbc miniseries.
“what is this? i’m not sure i approve of my intern watching such disturbing material,” he joked, since we are pretty much the same age. i laughed and kept on creating a wasteland of eraser detritus, the proof of my good work being the absence of graphite in my wake.

i cant believe it’s almost done

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

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panel from the books introduction.

ten million hours later

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

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coming of age reading list

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

readinglist

tour

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

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sabrina says so long

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Au Revoir to OhYesVeryNice’s Laboratory

 

As an intern you have to learn to make these experiences your own. I am walking away with project ideas for the 8th grade class I will mentor this summer: comic storytelling and great perspectives on teaching

 

The Checklist I Made Myself for OhYesVeryNice

 

Ö  Watch You Tube videos

Ö  Spill coffee on important stuff

Ö  Listen to rad Hip Hop and Psychedelic beats

Ö  Draw panel lines very straight but sometimes kind of crooked

Ö  Erase Ryan’s pencil marks

Ö  Eat large potato burrito

Ö  Do bizarre research for Ryan’s detail work

(Where I learned that internet research on ANY topic will lead to pictures of Barack Obama)

Ö  Get my portrait done as I write a blog

Ö  (Twice)

    Meet Bill

 

Uh oh. One left.

 

Party on,

Sabrina

 

sabrinaportrait21 oh, sabrina!  would that we could take you with us on our upcoming relocation to new york city.  you will be missed.

dinosaur

Monday, May 11th, 2009

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i said i wasn’t gonna ink anything until the pencils were all done~well, i’m almost done with the pencils and how are you supposed to wait to ink everything? it’s impossible!

snack time

Friday, April 17th, 2009

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