RSSDearest reader, I’d like to share some photos snapped by the artful lens of Seth Kushner in anticipation of 08’s January 6 release. Seth and I met at Grand Central Terminal in New York during weekday lunch-hour, capture a NY journalists-of-past vibe but with a modern touchscreen twist:
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Grand Central just sent me copies of the US softcover edition of SHOOTING WAR, which I am slowly unboxing for you now, slowly unwrapping all wide-eyed like little brother on Christmas morning. The softcover will be available in both bookstores & comic shops on September 9th, priced at USD$13.99.
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I woke up one morning about three weeks ago feeling very different, something new in my gut that didn’t have a human name to put to it. I’ve since spent alot time not-listening and not-thinking to myself, just enjoying the velvety feel of this newish skin:
Though I’ve spent much of this year with my head down busy creating “08″ and all this work nobody knows about yet, I imagine the constant cycling between multiple projects that I equally love is the root of this new feeling. My daily writing/drawing regimen used to be a concentrated effort of discipline and time-management, a focus/release of fire… but it now feels more like an involuntary system of my organism, a second heartbeat that sits above my skull and throbs ideas to me in secret code through my dreams and quiet waking moments.
In conjunction with next week’s NYCC, I’m speaking in a Young Adults seminar on Tuesday, April 15. I’m putting together a discussion on how to create write/design memorable characteres; all details/map contained below:
I created this piece of art for last week’s Y: THE LAST MAN benefit for the CBLDF; now that the auction is over, I can show it to you adoring people:
In other news, I’m speaking tonight at the NY Public Library at 6:30pm; hope to see you New Yorkers there…
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…
This weekend I did 24 Hour Comics Day at Jim Hanley’s Universe alonside seven other participants, with six of us (yes I did!) completing the 24-page challenge. Everyone had a swell time staying up, eating greasy food and getting to know each other as we pushed ourselves to the outer rims of our cartooning limits AND getting to let our proverbial hair down with Scott and Ivy McCloud in the process, who are absolutely top notch people.
Personally, I took 24HCD as a challenge to work against my own style, creating my whole comic BEFORE YOU WERE HERE in a very oversimple cartoony line with a fountain pen and a sharpie on typing paper. I spent the first 2 hours working on the script and then completed all 24 pages of inks by the 10-hour mark, giving myself the remaining 14 hours to scan and color my pages in Photoshop. I’ll be posting it here in its entirety tomorrow; see you then!
From noon this Saturday to noon Sunday, I’m camping out at Jim Hanley’s Universe in Manhattan to participate in 24 Hour Comics Day… where cartoonists across the nation (planet?) make an entire comic book in a single day. Many local cartoonists will join in the (literal) creative marathon here in New York… so come by and throw us Powerades and kisses. Anyone is welcome to participate.
