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June 2, 2011: Victoria Advocate’s fun X-men comic book movie treatment (3)

So what does a small Texas paper do when it loses a features design genius like Ryan Huddle to the Boston Globe? It packs it in. Right? Not exactly. In the case of the 28,300-circulation Victoria Advocate, the paper simply reloads. In this case with longtime multimedia editor and illustrator Robert Zavala. He’s picking up and producing some of the [...]

May 27, 2011: Friday’s storm pages: Stunning photo and story by Springfield News-Leader

We’ll start off today’s tornado roundup with something that truly stunned me, folks. And I mean truly. Stunned. Me. I read this story a few hours ago and then had to take a break. I just couldn’t bear to read any more. But now it’s time buckle down and get this posted. This story comes to us today via a [...]

May 24, 2011: Tuesday tornado aftermath pages from Joplin; Midwest

Again, today, I’ve managed to score just a bit of a scoop for you: A number of pages not posted at the Newseum. Meaning you possibly haven’t seen them yet… — JOPLIN GLOBE Joplin, Mo. Circulation: 24,642 In the friendly little city of Joplin, Mo. — so cruelly hammered by nature Sunday night — the hometown Globe continued its heroic [...]

May 12, 2011: Victoria (Texas) Advocate comic panel teaches lessons in history you didn’t know (1)

Have you ever wondered just how the hell Joe Biden got elected? I have. Until now. A new illustrated feature on the Victoria (Texas) Advocate web site explained it to me. Check it out: The 13th Amendment, allowing for the popular election of senators, is ratified. Before, senators were chosen through a combination of monkey paws, magic potatoes and goat [...]

Jan. 18, 2011: Ryan Huddle of Victoria, Texas, moving to the Boston Globe (6)

I have to tell you, my friends: Today is one of the coolest days I’ve ever, ever had as a blogger. Simply because I get to break this news. Dan Zedek — assistant managing editor of the Boston Globe — announced today: I’m pleased to announce that Ryan Huddle of the Victoria (TX) Advocate will join the design department on [...]

Dec. 17, 2010: Features presentations for the new ‘Tron’ movie (4)

The new Disney movie Tron opens today. And you know what that means: Lots of really cool feature-page presentations in papers throughout the U.S. And, as usual, we all have the same handout art from which to choose. How do we make our pages look different from anyone else’s? What can we do to put our own spin on a [...]

Nov. 22, 2010: Ryan Huddle on why Victoria, Texas, creates those cool movie-themed treatments (4)

The other day, I posted the Victoria Advocate‘s extraordinary Harry Potter movie treatment. Again, the front and the center spread of the eight-page section in which Ryan recreated the magical Prophet newspaper from the movies: The project received lots of nice compliments — which I’d expect from any Ryan Huddle-produced project. I’ve been writing about Ryan, now, for some time. [...]

Nov. 18, 2010: More Harry Potter movie fun by Victoria, Texas (2)

When the last Harry Potter movie came out, Ryan Huddle and his talented team at the Victoria (Texas) Advocate turned their weekly entertainment tab into a faux edition of the Prophet newspaper seen in the movies. It was quite good. It generated a lot of buzz among news designers. And it’s still a highlight of many of my slide shows. [...]

Oct. 21, 2010: Halloween at the Victoria (Texas) Advocate

It’s always a pleasure to get an e-mail from Ryan Huddle of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate. Ryan Huddle (right) and Aprill Brandon of the Victoria Advocate. — It’s Halloween again. Ryan and his folks usually do something fun and elaborate — and spooky — in their weekly entertainment tab. You also might recall the tab — formerly known as M3 [...]

Oct. 8, 2010: Behind the redesign of Victoria (Texas) Advocate’s entertainment tab (1)

So why haven’t we heard lately from Ryan Huddle and the folks in Victoria, Texas? Because he’s been up to his neck in a major overhaul of the Advocate‘s weekly entertainment tab, that’s why. Ryan writes: It has been a busy few weeks down here. The new Get Out section is done and hit the streets this morning. That’s the [...]

Sept. 3, 2010: From the Victoria Advocate: Movie parties and a Fall TV preview

I didn’t get around to posting last week’s M3 pages from the Advocate of Victoria, Texas. Sorry ’bout that. The Victoria Advocate — circulation 33,549 — runs wonderfully inventive presentations each Friday in its entertainment tab, thanks to design guru Ryan Huddle and his wife, features reporter Aprill Brandon. If you read this blog regularly, then you know I’ve been [...]

Aug. 20, 2010: This week in Victoria, Texas: Fashion in a fun way

Our pal Ryan Huddle of the Advocate of Victoria (Texas) Advocate writes: You are probably getting sick of me sending you my pages, But I had to share this with you. Heh. Are you kidding me? Checking out whatever wacky idea Ryan and his folks have come up with next has become one of the highlights of my week. We [...]

Aug. 13, 2010: So, what did Victoria, Texas, do in its entertainment tab THIS week? (2)

Seems like Ryan Huddle and the gang at the Victoria Advocate have become a weekly fixture here in the blog. They seem to come up with something interesting, creative or just flat-out wacky for their Friday M3 entertainment tab. This week, the story is best told as a narrative. So please take it away, Ryan… OK. So, the M3 staff [...]

Aug. 6, 2010: Getting a tattoo in Victoria, Texas

Does anyone get tired of reading about inventive design director Ryan Huddle, his wife, features writer Aprill Brandon and their antics on the pages of the Advocate of Victoria, Texas? Me, neither. Their stuff is funny, it’s fresh and it’s a great example of the kind of attitude we all could be bringing to our newspapers. The subject for today’s [...]

July 31, 2010: ‘I can haz cheezburger’ in Victoria, Texas

Friday, I received another shipment of PDF pages from my pal Ryan Huddle of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate, circulation 33,549. Ryan is the Advocate‘s design director. With a background primarily in Advertising and promotional design. Ryan has spent the past few years getting more and more involved in editorial design, via the Advocate‘s weekly M3 entertainment tabloid. Victoria’s M3 teammates, [...]

July 16, 2010: A couple of cool ‘Inception’ movie treatments

Our daily mailbag included two cool treatments for the movie Inception that opened today in theaters. The first is from Chris Strach of the San Jose Mercury News: Chris writes: I like how it turned out. Also into the fact that — like the movie — it’s a concept piece that threw readers today. I had some great feedback from [...]

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