Archive for December, 2007

Mumbai Business Standard’s Best Fiction of 2007

It’s a joy to see both SHOOTING WAR and Rutu Modan’s exceptional EXIT WOUNDS share the list with such incredible novels; comics really do feel all grown up this year.

Reviewed on Bookslut, Mercury News, Aint It Cool News

And Silicon Valley’s Mercury News lists SW among its top 10 comics of the year:

Mother Jones, L.A. Times & FORA.tv

SHOOTING WAR is reviewed in Mother Jones and the L.A. Times:

And the full 50+ min of our multimedia presentation (w/Q&A moderated by the New York Times’ Jesse McKinley) at San Francisco’s Haight Booksmith is now available courtesy of FORA.tv:

Happy Holidays to You!

Village Voice’s Year-End Comic Picks

And SHOOTING WAR makes the list:

Emperor Ed Matus

The Waterford Landing guitarist Ed Matus did his Palpatine impression for me on the streets of LA and I promised him digital lightning bolts upon my return. Click for full-size…

NYT Books + Podcasts Galore

SHOOTING WAR is featured in a NYT article about webcomics-to-book publishers:

Also, two recent podcasts are now available online for your listening pleasure:

WCBN-FM’s Living Writers (iTunes)
KacyKowars.com

Closing the Invisible Distance

I wrote an original essay for Powell’s Books; it begins with:

There was a constant thread of responsibility running through my creation of the visuals for Shooting War, a nagging need to do enough homework to make the war-torn streets of Baghdad in 2011 ring as true as possible…

Go to Powells.com to read the rest of the essay.

On The Chet Curtis Report

While in Boston, Anthony LappĂ© and I were interviewed on New England’s The Chet Curtis Report; video clip archived here:

Live Tonight on WOR 710HD’s Joey Reynolds Show

Immediately following tonight’s CBLDF Member Holiday Party, Anthony Lappe and I will be appearing live on WOR-AM with host Joey Reynolds; you can listen live on the radio at 710HD or on WOR710’s website at 10pm EST.

The show is live; feel free to call-in toll-free at (800)321-0710.