Good morning internets! Today brings light through the grey grey clouds, in the form of a fresh installment of RED LIGHT PROPERTIES, in which a new kid on the block appears, literally:
You can also start RLP from the beginning.
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Tuesday brings a new installment of RED LIGHT PROPERTIES over at Tor.com; this week sees some after-hours aetheric espionage:
You can also start reading from the beginning here.
This week’s episode of Red Light Properties give the team a moment to exhale and remember how goddamn mad they are at each other. Online now at Tor.com:
I was interviewed earlier this month on Seth Kushner’s excellent NYC Graphic Novelists blog about my love for comics and (naturally) my new series, and I rather liked this poetical notion that popped out of my fingertips:
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of ghosts, of places holding onto echoes of their inhabitants; when I was a kid in Florida, I spent a summer riding my bike to the library everyday and reading every book on ghost photography I could get my hands on… It probably had to do with me losing one of my grandfathers early on and seeing him hanging around our house for a few years afterwards. But when you cross that obsession and sensitivity with a love of history and culture, all of a sudden those echoes contain music, perfumes, context… and there’s a certain romance to that, of old times that have passed on but still remain.
It was also an opportunity for Seth to showcase some of his excellent photography we’ve done together over the last few years for various book projects, like the following pic:
I love this pic for two reasons: 1) it’s a total fake… I’m still in my old bedroom in Brooklyn, floating against a photoshopped Miami background and Seth lit me to match the beach moonlight, and 2) that leather loveseat is where I wrote Red Light Properties’ final 7th draft; I left it behind in Williamsburg when we moved down to São Paulo and my heart still aches for my cool and smooshy place to sit and dream.
Our current couch here aches my tuchus after extended sessions; stay tuned for fuckin’ fascinating future furniture developments.
The fine folks at the Radar project dedicated a full episode of this season to myself and Red Light Properties, making a short film about how I create this new work at this particular turning point in my life/career.
And if you’re not already reading RLP, the first page is right here.
You can also check out the rest of Radar’s well-done arts series on Babelgum.
I’ve illustrated an Intelligencer piece in this week’s New York Magazine that compares the over-diagnosis of “narcissism” today versus the potency of a good old-fashioned insult:
Also: it made me all 08-nostalgic to draw a horrific Sarah Palin again for an evening… *sniff*.
This week I did a illustration for NY Magazine accompanying the Intelligencer piece about the rudderless circus of New York State’s government; I’m particularly found of the skronky scrollpen flourishes going on here, reflecting the amount of Ornette Coleman here in the studio this past week. You can read the whole piece here:
The full audio of my SXSW Interactive panel “Comics on Handhelds: Taking Webcomics Mobile” is now online thanks to the good people down in Austin TX.
I’ll be moderating a panel called Comics on Handhelds: Taking Webcomics Mobile at this year’s SXSW Interactive festival. We’ve combed the internets to find opinionated experts to discuss the growing industry of digitally-delivered comics and how to rethink what’s been done to create both global communities and viable business models. Our panelists will be Diesel Sweeties creator Rich Stevens, UClick.com’s Douglas Edwards, cartoonist Molly Crabapple and Longbox’s Rantz Hoseley; come on down to Austin… we’d love to have you there to take part in the discussion.
