Archive - March 11, 2013

Jason Boog (Guatemala 2000-02) editor of Gallery Cat published this funny and true piece this afternoon, a commencement address by Neil Gaimen. Read the introduction by Jason and then watch the short video, do so if you are interested in writing, the arts, or just doing good for the world. In May, HarperCollins will publish Make Good Art, a Chip Kidd-designed book version of a Neil Gaiman commencement address. Gaiman’s speech at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia went viral last year, sharing “secret freelancer knowledge” that all kinds of writers, editors and freelance workers can use. We’ve embedded a video of his speech above-it also contains the best advice he ever received, delivered by the great novelist Stephen King. Here is Gaiman’s secret freelancer knowledge: You get work however you get work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is . . .