Irish in America. If the art bothers you, it’s supposed to. Keep reading, it’s very good.
The Q & A is quite good, too.
L. A. Times Book Prize Nomination
Fifth category down is Graphic Novels.
Amazing… amazing competition, too, so we’ll see what happens in April, no?
Sifting
I would have titled this post ‘panning,’ as in ‘for gold,’ but since ‘panning’ also means ‘to review unfavorably’ I thought I wouldn’t. Because these are good, for various reasons. They all went places I didn’t expect, and yet didn’t lose the thread of the story, and that isn’t easy to do.
Mad, mad thing; beautifully watercolored, and right up the alley of any FINDER fan: Story Of The Door part one: TOILET GENIE
Both art and story start out looking like one thing, and rapidly evolve into several other things. And! And! It has a) an ending and b) a GOOD ending.
The Locked Maze
I look forward to seeing how this one draws to a close; right now it feels like it will be a long book, to give weight to its concept. Really long books sometimes get unbalanced. Nonetheless, I’m enjoying the hell out of it. Namesake
REVIEWS: Boy Howdy
It has often been pointed out to me that I have all the zeal for self-promotion of a lungfish peacefully buried under the cracked surface of a droughty pond. I hear that someone’s written something nice about my work, and instead of whirling into a well-oiled mechanical dervish of reposting, tweeting, fbooking, tumbling, googleplexing, and God only knows what else you damned hyperevolved internet big brains do, I sink back down into my mudhole and placidly wait for the monsoon.
I have a nasty headache and can’t see out of one eye, so I’m Googling myself. On blackout day. Because I can’t read anyway. Or draw. So here’s what cleverer people have to say:
Good Reads (I never get comments. THIS HAS COMMENTS, good lawdycrosis)
Bleeding Cool, which is what it says on the tin
There.
Sketch Cards
These are examples of the sketch cards I’ve been including in the Dark Horse FINDER Libraries I have for sale. Trying too hard, probably, but they give me a chance to play with color media. They’re 4″x6″, marker and colored inks on Bristol. I try to include one per book, but if I get rushed for time, I may cut it back to one per order.
Old and New Incredible
This is an illusion done with light on the side of a building– nothing new, just the drive-in theater screen of yesterday– but the illusion is brilliant, and makes the idea fresh again. Imagine a city full of this (watch me flee screaming to live in a hole on the beach like a geoduck forever after), and the people who live there.
