Rachal Duggan moved from Chicago to Madison in early 2017, and since then has quickly made a mark with her live-drawing offerings, a residency at the Madison Public Library’s Bubbler program, and editorial illustrations for local publications including Tone Madison, Our Lives, and Isthmus. We at Tone Madison can attest that Duggan has come to […]
A Print And Resist haul
Madison’s Print & Resist festival returned to the Central Library on Saturday, April 13, which means Tone Madison editor Scott Gordon went and spent too much money on zines, stickers, books, and other fun works of print media. We sat down this week to talk about the haul. The goods include Lauden Nute‘s official Print […]
A few Tone Madison podcast highlights from 2018
This will be our last Tone Madison podcast episode of 2018, and to wrap things up, we’re listening back to some of the moments that made the year memorable. We produced 40 episodes of the podcast this year. That represents hundreds of hours of work by a whole group of dedicated and curious people. It […]
Rachal Duggan’s universe of doodles
If you’ve looked at Tone Madison any time in the past year, you’ve probably seen the artwork of Rachal Duggan. Her illustrations are almost always black-and-white line drawings. They’ve appeared in publications including the Chicago Reader, Our Lives Magazine, The Pitchfork Review, and Isthmus. She can often be seen at live events, doing custom live portraits of people’s butts […]
Rachal Duggan: The Bubbler Artist In Residence
Rachal Duggan is an illustrator, comic artist, instructor and live-drawer. Her work features deceptively simple line drawings, with subjects ranging from portraits of famous women authors, political cartoons and drawings of pickle jars. She’s been published in Driftless Magazine, The Pitchfork Review and Isthmus. She’s the Madison Central Library’s Artist in Residence for the months […]