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Yet another busy week, though I’ve managed to claw some hours back to sit down at my drawing board and hammer out some more hardhats pages. What is Hardhats, you ask? It’s my graphic novel about the May 1970 NYC riots led by construction workers who were protesting against the rising anti-war student movement/New Left. Check out the Hardhats page for more info. Why is that the longer pause between pages, the more hatching and detail you put down on the said pages? Above is a sneak preview of a sample panel from Hardhats, which I’m 3 pages away from completing the first part of, including a brand new prologue.
One of Israel’s largest business dailies is running a feature piece on the story behind Borderland, the human trafficking comic that Olga Trusova and I put together over the last year. Practice your hebrew with the original piece here, or read the slightly odd-sounding-but-basically-intelligible google translation here.
I’ve downed webtools recently to finally make time to pick up my drawing tools, and am pushing ahead with Hardhats pages for my latest graphic novel project. The first part will be done and ready for release by this time next week – I’ll be posting previews in the Hardhats page of the site over the coming days.
Checkout this video from Soso ltd, a design/multimedia collective who specialize in real-time data viz/performance. In the video below they analyze conversations as they happen to give you lucky viewers an updating feed on the semantic breakdown of each speaker’s language use. More on them and what I’ve been up to in the past week over at the Knight Project page.
The Long Conversion from Sosolimited on Vimeo.
Me, Olga and an Ogre in a tutu
A big shout to everyone who came by the Archcomix/Center for Cartoon Studies table at Alternative Press Expo this weekend. Copies of the hot-off-the-press Borderland comic (which arrived nail-bitingly late last week, just in time for the con) flew off the table, hotly followed by the second print run of the Honduran Coup: a Graphic History, now with newly amended Honduran Spanish translation (thanks to Fabiola Maldonado). Although I didn’t get much time away from manning the table, I managed to see the Dan Clowes interview panel as well as hang out with fellow comics activist Gan Golan, who has put out an amazing looking new graphic novel that takes the aesthetic of vintage superhero comics to explain the recession and current economic crisis. When else would I bring myself to pose with costumed superheroes? Ladies and Gents, I present: The Adventures of Unemployed Man. It’s actually out tomorrow from Little Brown, so beat the rush and get a copy as soon as you can! I also had the pleasure of hanging out with
My kind of superheroes (Tights optional)
Matt Bors and David Axe – otherwise known as the War is Boring team – as well as Susie Cagle, fresh with issue 2 of her Microcosm-published mini, 9 Gallons, to chew the comics journalism cud. In amongst the weekend’s hectic cocktail-party-conveyor-belt-atmosphere of pitching my work to anyone in the vicinity of table 276, I also found the time to read Ken Dahl‘s truly awesome Monsters, at last collected by Secret Acres into one volume. It’s about as approachable and confessional as herpes lit could be.
More on last week’s events at Stanford, plus a new comic and a breakthrough in my Knight Project, once I get some sleep.
In other world news, Zelaya’s “elected” replacement Porfirio Lobo Sosa has come out magnanimously to say he’s all for putting a vote to the Honduran people for a constituent assembly: “What’s the problem?” the Presidential stand-in is alleged to have said at a press conference in Tegucigalpa on Sept 29. Only the fact that you wouldn’t even be there had Zelaya not suggested that (and been ousted for it) in the first place. More on this most unconsciously ironic volte-face/gaff and the backstory behind it here. ALSO, you’ll be thrilled to know that the latest batch of comics has been dispatched to the printers ahead of this year’s Alternative Press Expo at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Franciso on Oct 16 and 17. I’ll be there under the auspices of the Center for Cartoon Studies, so be sure to come by, say hi, and succumb to the seductive mercantile allure of owning your very own archcomix.
Where you'll find the Archcomix and CCS table at this year's APE
