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After last week’s Washington Park Live! event, I was interviewed for the River View Observer. We discussed dolls, comics, and tips on Japan travel. Check it out!

This week I did an interview about Cool Japan Guide on Australia’s Radio National Saturday Extra show with Geraldine Doogue. We chatted about shrines, temples, and manga. You can listen to it now here and it can be downloaded as a podcast too!

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Check out the Publisher’s Weekly review for Cool Japan Guide! You can pre-order now, and the release date is March 10th!

Also, please note, I updated my twitter to @abbydenson

In July I got to appear in Good Morning America to taste some ice cream for National Ice Cream Day! We had a great time and tried some great ice cream too (Ben & Jerry’s, Max and Mina’s, Homer’s, and  Baskin Robbins)! Here’s the link!

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In addition to comics and desserts, you may know (via my Twitter feed) that I love cheesy and campy movies. I listen to various podcasts as I draw, and one of my recent faves is Schlock Treatment! It features four hilarious guys who watch schlocky movies and joke around about them. It’s been a staple for me the past several months, and I was honored to be invited to guest host this week. Since it’s December, we watched Jingle All the Way. I don’t recommend the movie, but I DO recommend you listen to us having fun joking around about the movie, as well as toys, cookies, Japanese bathroom technology, Spider-Man, and various other topics of interest. I encourage you to subscribe to their podcast via itunes, Stitcher Radio, or just listen to it streaming on their site. Click here to listen!
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Brazilian writer Debora de Lucas wrote an article about Dolltopia and did an interview with me here as well! Here’s to Dolltopia traveling around the world ^_^

Check it out, I am quoted in a piece in this month’s Art Business News! The article by Rebecca Pahle is about the importance of artists promoting and connecting with fans in the comics industry.

Happy New Year everybody! Check out this short interview on the cool site Girls Read Comics Too!

If you don’t know Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, it’s an amazing book and website by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden about comics craft which is also a great textbook. I found it indispensable for teaching college classes on comics writing, that’s for sure! I was invited to write a post for their site about my experiences with manga and it’s impact on my work. If you’ve ever wondered about the details of my involvement with manga and Japan, and exhibiting at a comics show there, here’s your chance to read all about it. Please check it out!

Recently I was included in this nice write-up on food and illustration from Brazil’s leading paper, Folha de S.Paulo, the article is by Diogo Gomez, and great photography by Gilberto Tadday! We did the photo shoot at La Bergamote, a lovely French pastry place in Chelsea!