On June 8th, I’ll be a guest of Toronto’s Luminato Festival of Arts + Creativity, taking part in a panel called “The Political Graphic Novel” hosted by The Beguiling’s own Peter Birkemoe.
And hey Torontoans, I’ll be sticking around through the 11th, so hit me up in the comments for a good time.
The New York Comic-Con is coming to the Javitz Center next weekend (April 18-20) where I’ll be signing shiny hardcovers over at Grand Central as well as moderating the following two panels:
Friday, April 18 / 4:00-5:00 pm
Saturday, April 19 / 2:00-3:00 pm
SHOOTING WAR Book Signing, Grand Central Publishing
You can also find me kicking back at Artists Alley Table E-11; I’ll have all manner of things with my artwork on them there, including a malnourished young child whose entire body I’ve tattooed from head to toe with the only existing copy of Act Three of “KELLY.”
This past weekend I was a speaker at SXSW Interactive, giving a presentation on SHOOTING WAR and other comics in my immediate future as part of the multimedia “Book Readings” series. Any trip to Austin gives me a chance to see friends and family there and eat heaps of barbecue, but my experience at SXSWi was unlike any convention I’ve attended before: full of enthusiastic, intelligent and forward-thinking brains all gathered together to tear down old ways and build up new ones. Everyone had a dream, a project, a company and wanted to figure out a way to pool resources to benefit each other.
SHOOTING WAR gets some nice love from The Brooklyn Rail; here’s a snip:
Smart, topical, and entertaining, Shooting War exemplifies an exciting direction in comic books. It’s understood but not wholly accepted that comic books have reached an adult level of sophistication in the last thirty years… They’re also deeper and more fun than the Hollywood war movies that keep combusting instead of blockbusting.
I’ll be traveling to Austin TX for SXSW Interactive, a gathering of all things shiny, wired and AJAX-powered. As part of their Book Readings series, I’ll be discussing SHOOTING WAR’s genesis and execution as well as casting a fiery eye to the gorgeous future.
On Tuesday evening (February 12th), I’ll be giving a talk with my SHOOTING WAR co-author Anthony Lappé at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library; the talk will an expansion of the multimedia presentation we gave on tour this past fall, chock full of behind-the-scenes information on the evolution of the book from webcomic to hardcover; 6:30pm:
Newsarama posted a new interview with me today, courtesy of the excellent Chris Arrant:
The New Hampshire primary was an amazing experience, and though I’d love to be able to catch my breath (and I promise to fill you in when I do)… first I’m flying down to Miami tomorrow for a presentation and signing in Coral Gables, Florida. It’s at 8pm tomorrow, Miami peoples:
This event is a sweet homecoming for me; I worked at the South Beach branch of Miami’s greatest independent bookstore Books & Books after college and was the buyer for their first graphic novel bookshelf. At the end of all the fantastic hubbub, it’s seeing things like this that count the most.
Here’s an embedded video courtesy of FORA.tv of our 12.03.07 SHOOTING WAR talk at the Haight Booksmith in San Francisco, moderated by the New York Times’ Jesse McKinley:
His critically-acclaimed graphic novel SHOOTING WAR was listed among 2007's top graphic novels in the Village Voice and Publisher's Weekly. He is also a founding member of online comics anthology ACT-I-VATE, where he serializes the psychedelic psychodrama "KELLY".
Dan is currently working with The New Republic's Michael Crowley on 08: A GRAPHIC DIARY OF THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, a nonfiction comics memoir of the presidential primaries to be published by Crown Books in January 2009.
