MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

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 all the other things I do, I also am a member of a group librarian blog called In the Library with the Lead Pipe. My post today makes a connection between slide-speech interaction in presentations and image-text interaction in comics: “Presentation = Speech + Slides.” It might be of interest to readers of this [...]

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 [...]

I’m in Baltimore at the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) convention, and I’m blogging for the conference blog. Probably only of interest for readers here in that I’m drawing the conference. Using my laptop, Gimp, and my Wacom tablet, I’m drawing in the sessions and uploading them to the blog. You can see [...]