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Thursday, September 16, 2004
ninety candles, six bucks:
neil kleid on the release of his graphic novel ninety candles that hit stores this week, of which i got to see an advance and is well worth the six bucks...
"This week, NINETY CANDLES, my first graphic novella produced with help from the Xeric Foundation ships to stores.
"NINETY CANDLES, a 48 page graphic novella funded by a gr7ant from the Xeric Foundation, is a completely improvisational comic book - no script, no net. Each panel of NINETY CANDLES represents a consecutive year in the life of its protagonist, Kevin Hall. The "spaces" between panels morph into "spaces" between years and as such the reader experiences our intrepid cartoonist's life, the decisions that shape his existence from birth to death."
more at rantcomics.com.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2004
a few perfect hours for you and me:
josh neufeld on his new book a few perfect hours from alternative comics...
"I'm tremendously excited about the September release of my new Xeric Award-winning travel comics collection, A FEW PERFECT HOURS (AND OTHER STORIES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA AND CENTRAL EUROPE). Over the course of the 128-page collection, I take readers on a globetrotting tour. I escort the main characters Josh and Sari on such offbeat adventures as a cave expedition in Thailand, a train-ride through war-torn Serbia, and a stint as extras in a Singaporean soap opera.
"Travel comics are a new but growing segment of the market, as evidenced by Craig Thompson's CARNET DE VOYAGE, Peter Kuper's COMICS TRIPS, Justin Hall's TRUE TRAVEL TALES, the SPX 2003 anthology, and Rick Smith's BARAKA AND BLACK MAGIC IN MOROCCO. Accordingly, I'm confident that A FEW PERFECT HOURS will find a wide readership both within and outside the traditional comics world. And I'm extremely grateful to the Xeric Foundation for enabling me to self-publish it.
"I will be having a book release party at New York's independent bookstore/gallery Jigsaw on Friday, September 23. The book will ship to retailers in September, and will officially debut at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, in early October."
more at indyworld.com and joshcomix.com
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004
free batman:
well, glad this is settled. saves us a letter writing campaign.
"A 32-year-old man who staged a protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony dressed as Batman has been released on police bail. Jason Hatch was ordered Tuesday to return to a central London police station in December.
"He was released along with 48-year-old Dave Pyke, who took part in Monday's stunt dressed as the superhero's sidekick Robin, after being questioned by police. 'The 48-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting and the 32-year-old on suspicion of criminal damage,' spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police told the UK's Press Association.
"Hatch, a member of the campaign group Fathers 4 Justice, is accused of climbing over the walls of the queen's London residence and staging a five-hour protest on a ledge..."
more at cnn
posted by peter! 11:30 PM EST permalink
Monday, September 13, 2004
artbomb review: clyde fans by seth
"Printed in two colours on an antiqued-looking ivory stock, this book has the feel of age. It has the weight of age. Abe's face is crushed by age. And he talks like an old man, a lonely old man. He talks to us. Part one is a single monologue delivered by Abe, an old man's ramble through life as a salesman, life spent travelling as seen from a dusty old shop with no apparent windows and no apparent escape. It's the last statement of a dying man. A man dying very, very slowly. In dust, and loss, and failure.
"The set-up and subject matter could not be more ordinary. The execution could not be more compelling. It is absolutely, supernaturally rivetting. And it leaves you unsettled; touched too deeply by a cold old life."
(more from warren ellis)
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Sunday, September 12, 2004
homeland insecurity:
the nytimes on spiegelman's in the shadow of no towers...
"Duke Ellington was luckier than Art Spiegelman. In 1965, when the jazz master was 66, the Pulitzer Prize music jury voted to honor him with a special citation, only to have the idea rejected by the Pulitzer executive body. Ellington responded with a wry bon mot. 'Fate is being kind to me,' he said. 'Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.' In the subsequent nine years until his death, Ellington composed more than 200 pieces of music, including the three Sacred Concerts he considered his most important work. Rejection by the cultural establishment impeded neither his creativity nor his prolificacy; indeed, it may well have fueled both...
"Spiegelman recalls in his introduction to the product of his renewed tillage, 'In the Shadow of No Towers.' It is an odd, thin but robust hybrid of a book -- an intimate memoir of the attacks on the World Trade Center, which Spiegelman witnessed from close range, a rant on their effects on the world at large and within the author, and a monograph on the Sunday newspaper comic strips of the early 20th century, all within 42 oversized pages.
"Shaken out of his complacency by Sept. 11, Spiegelman 'made a vow that morning to return to making comix,' he writes. What he did is something of a return, but also a fresh start in another direction. 'In the Shadow of No Towers' is a vigorously unorthodox work probably designed to avoid the comparisons with its celebrated predecessor that will hereby ensue..."
posted by peter! 10:43 PM EST permalink
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