MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

A little mention in a magazine.

20 Out of 30 Days was notable.

I’m in a show in Manchester with a few great artists.

Yesterday was the 6th blogiversary of Madinkbeard the blog. As in recent past years (read last year’s), here’s a rundown of stuff from the past year: On Phoenix 6: Nostalgia: “Nostalgia” starts out weird and crazy and ends up weird and cartoonishly absurd (yes, I do feel guilty using “cartoonish” in such a negative context). [...]

I missed MoCCA last year, partially out of laziness, but this year my wife and I made the trip up to NYC for the weekend. Our trip up was a bit disrupted by Penn Station temporarily stopping all trains inbound/outbound trains. I wanted to see Charles Hatfield‘s 11am talk about Kirby, and it was looking [...]

A librarian friend of mine, Steve Lawson, interviewed me at a recent conference. I talk a bit about the group library blog I am involved with, as well as my comics. Check it out.

Besides presenting today in Second Life I also put up an art show and talked about the work. Here are some screenshots I took. The avatar in the tuxedo is me. More shots here. For those who may wonder (one person did), the page in the middle of that last picture is a page that [...]

Over at Robot 6, Chris Mautner just posted my submission to his Shelf Porn feature. See the glory of my comics (and some non-comics) shelves! Try to pick out the titles by reading blurry, tiny spines! Or if you really want to know what’s there, you could just check out my LibraryThing account (which should [...]

Comics blogger Sean Kleefield was at the con yesterday and has a write-up with screenshots, including one of me presenting: In other news about me, or not about me as the case is here, a couple poets/artists/? released “For Godot” issue 1, a 3785 page PDF that has about that many poems attributed to a [...]

I spoke in Second Life at Met@Morph, the first annual Web Comics Comic-Con and Conference, on Friday October 3rd (today). My presentation was called “Freedom within Boundaries: the Theory and Practice of Constraint in Comics.” I only had 20 minutes so it’s a fairly shallow look at the topic. You can see the slides here [...]

Now official released to a ton of librarians my cover to the December 2007 issue of College & Research Libraries News. I was given the theme of Philadelphia because our January association meeting is here. Naturally I took a comic like layout. I also used a constraint for organizing the panels by Library of Congress [...]

Happy Blogiversary to Madinkbeard! It’s been 3 years since I started this blog. Originally very focused on literary constraint and the Oulipo, my love of comics and a not-unrelated-to-constraint interest in the formal elements of comics has lead me to the current state of this word dump. For all of you that have been reading [...]

Bud Parr posted a list of his top ten works of fiction, and it seemed like a fun idea. In no particular order: 1. Recognitions, Gaddis (of course!) 2. Witchgrass/Bark Tree (Le Chiendent), Queneau 3. Jacques the Fatalist, Diderot 4. This is Not a Novel, Markson 5. Bouvard and Pecuchet, Flaubert 6. Peanuts, Charles Schulz [...]

The best comment about my blog for the year, just discovered today (and really the only entrant for “best”): No, I didn´t forget Mad Ink Beard – Derik Badman´s the grumpy sage of comics blogging. So there. (From TZG2.0) I didn’t think I came off that grumpy, but I like “sage”.

Bloggasm is a site that interviews bloggers. A brief interview with me went up yesterday. Edit: A day later and two more books I’m excited about can be added to the list in that interview: Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page by Zak Smith (Tin House in November) and Only Revolutions by Mark [...]