Archive for the 'SHOOTING WAR' Category

Newsarama Q&A

Newsarama posted a new interview with me today, courtesy of the excellent Chris Arrant:

Coming Home to Books & Books

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.

The Haight Booksmith

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:

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:

Village Voice’s Year-End Comic Picks

And SHOOTING WAR makes the list:

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 Lappé and I were interviewed on New England’s The Chet Curtis Report; video clip archived here: