The Star Tribune, Minnesota’s biggest newspaper, recently ran an article about Twin Cities cartoonists, and yours truly was among them! You can read it online here:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/114758329.html

Accompaning the article was a list of “10 Essential Minnesota-made Graphic Novels”, and Tonoharu was among them! You can see the full list here:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/114758319.html

Annnnd finally, there’s an image gallery, which includes self-portraits of MN cartoonists and examples of their work, with my humble contribution among them:
http://www.startribune.com/galleries/114671784.html

Many thanks to Star Tribune reporter Tom Horgen for the excellent writeup!

My work was recently profiled in a couple of big English language publications in Japan:

Metropolis, an expat magazine serving the Tokyo area, just put up an article entitled “Hymn to the Lonely Man”, which can be found here:
http://metropolis.co.jp/features/feature/hymn-to-the-lonely-man/

And the Japan Times recently ran an article about profiling me and cartoonist Adam Pasion, which can be found here:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110205a1.html

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My sincere thanks to Metropolis editor James Hadfield, and Japan Times writer Gianni Simone for the coverage! Also, check out Adam Pasion’s comic about living and working in Japan: http://sundogscomix.blogspot.com/

A few months ago, I gave a presentation about self-publishing graphic novels at the Loft Literary Center. Daily Cross Hatch correspondent Sarah Morean taped the whole thing, and recently assembled it into a series of web videos, which can be found here:
http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2011/02/04/self-publishing-with-lars-martinson-parts-1-8-of-8/ 

Thanks again to the Loft for having me, and to Sarah for making the presentation available online!

I recently had the opportunity to appear on Tim Young’s Deconstructing Comics podcast. You can listen to/download our conversation at:
http://deconstructingcomics.com/?p=937

Or a search for “Deconstructing Comics” in iTunes should lead you to it as well.

My thanks to Tim for the letting me come on!