Continuing... It seems the best of these entries are when I'm pulling on a live wire, and don't know exactly what's next. With some projects, when an author knows what he or she is trying to say, it's already a lesser story. I love it when I'm reading someone who keeps surprising himself. © mark [...]
test heading Thanks for some nice encouraging messages from many of you about these little journal entries. Since the first FIRST SECOND books don't actually release until April 2006, I'm waiting to post more about them, like sketches and such from the authors -- it's just a little early now. I can't wait to share [...]
test heading 2005 Ignatz Award Winners CONGRATULATIONS! OUTSTANDING ARTIST -- David B., Epileptic (Pantheon), Babel (Drawn & Quarterly) OUTSTANDING ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION--Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man, John Porcellino (La Mano) OUTSTANDING GRAPHIC NOVEL-- Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon) OUTSTANDING STORY -- Dogs and Water, Anders Nilsen (Drawn and Quarterly) [...]
SALAMANDER DREAM by Hope Larson (Adhouse Books). A micro and macro story, a strangely beautiful relationship, and a book filled with a love of storytelling. Probably not the last we'll hear of Hope Larson.
test heading SMALL PRESS EXPO and the Ignatz awards -- and here's who's got'em LAST year! SPX 2004 The Eighth Annual Ignatz Awards go to: Outstanding Artist Craig Thompson, Blankets (Top Shelf Productions) Oustanding GN or Collection Blankets, Craig Thompson (Top Shelf Productions) Outstanding Story “Glenn Ganges”, Drawn and Quarterly Showcase Book 1, Kevin Huizenga [...]
Joann Sfar finishes his US author tour promoting THE RABBI'S CAT (Pantheon Books) this Thursday, at the Astor Place Barnes & Noble bookstore.... For those in the area, here's a chance to meet him and get a live drawing in your very own copy. Thursday 9/22/2005 Barnes & Noble 4 Astor Place New York, NY [...]
Comics are moving in circles of power! It's not enough that the Graphic Novel is conquering the mainstream publishing world... Now, Alexis Siegel, famed translator of Sfar as well as many upcoming :01 titles, including DEOGRATIAS by Stassen -- sits right in the middle of the United Nations Security Council. That's him there. And he's [...]
test heading On September 15th, 2005 a seminar took place with these luminaries. It was packed. And now it's over. Fortunately, :01's Russian spy Danica Novgorodoff was there, and sent back some juicy items, which inaugurate our new category of TIPS FOR CREATIVE TYPES, because they're that good. NOT verbatim, unless hemmed in by "quotes". [...]
