Death of Newspapers #22: Jan Eliot's Stone Soup
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In June,
Stone Soup cartoonist Jan Eliot and voiceover performer
JoJo Jensen experimented to create an
audio comic strip. To experience this, use control-click to enlarge the strip above in a new window and then read along while listening at the
Stone Soup blog.
Sarah Wagner
interviewed Jan Eliot in 2008 for
viz. Eliot objects to strip reruns and she discusses strip shrinkage: "The smaller the space, the less interesting the art, the less interested the reader, the less the newspaper cares, the smaller the space."
Below is an excellent Oregon Art Beat video of Jan Eliot and her teenage assistant Olivia White working on
Stone Soup. Watch full screen for close-ups of Eliot drawing. How come other cartoonists don't have informative videos with classy production values like this?
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