This is an example of the kind of copy I write first thing on a Monday morning, ah ha ha ha ha ha.
What is Aboriginal SF? Picture yourself as an alien anthropologist on a new planet writing a field guide on the natives’ behavior. That’s where you are in FINDER. But you’re not on some dull backwater among credulous goinks who will elevate you to godhood because you pretend to control the local volcano with your iPod, no no. Nor are you one of those starched-shirt types who sticks to your steel gas mask and pith helmet no matter how hot it gets.
No, you’ll be one of the cool scientists who goes native, straps on a penis gourd over your corsetry and performs the African Anteater Ritual to the amazement of all. You’ll be the flavor of the minute in this culture, but it moves fast.
Wear your big boots.
A huge fan of Finder
Welcome back. We’ve missed you.
I almost never know what you are talking about, but I enjoy it immensely… and I hope there is spell check on here… ah , good.
(this is how I write on a Monday evening… after a beer to take the edge off) I am EXTATIC …oops …ECSTATIC that there is a forum or comment-type thing here at last!! I want to meet the other scientists with anteaters on their corsets -or whatever you said- I mean, other Finder fans! We all have something in common! The need to SMELL the characters we love, ( Bram, for example) from the drawings! And get whiplash from the unpredictable story line! Yay!!
WOW! I am so glad to see this up an running! I checked in last week, and it has come a frickin’ long way. So far, the new website is very nice, not that the old one wasn’t. Anyways, I am happy as a clam that I can get my fix of Finder… it’s just one of those little things that make the hellish work week more worthwhile. A big, “HUZZAH!”, for the new website and keep up the great work!
Been a Finder fan for several years now. Since a comic shop guy introduced me to Finder at about issue eleven or twelve. He had the first ten issues available for me to check out. I was hooked. I love Carla’s hard hitting words and drawings and characters. There is wisdom and humor there. Her work is from her soul, through the workings of a sharp mind and keen hand. This is her Gan Garidan, and her neverending story told to Marcie by Jaeger. This is her Elsewhere, but the “monster” roams free and is the main character, shooting out wisdom, beating up guys, macking on and bedding women, figuring out his destiny and trying to straighten out the “fuckery” that is Anvard. Jaeger is to me a Christ figure, being a wise Finder that does what needs to be done to fix things, and being the scapegoat that being a Sin-eater calls for. And whoever then follows in his footsteps to become a Finder, consciously or not, is likewise Christed. The Finder in me beholds the Finder in Carla Speed McNeil. Blessed be.
- Chris
Snail space
Snail’s pace
Snails. Pace’.
Speed by name. Not by nature!
Keep mopping.
Big dance this weekend in B’more!
Glad to see you’re still kickin’ it out.
Best wishes to you and yours! Hope you have much success now and in the future.
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congratulations, Carla…the Dark Horse news is just great and I have no idea why it took so long for you to get an offer from one of the big publishers.
Very happy for you (and me as a long-time admirer of your work.)
Carla!
I just saw that you are going to be at Stumptown this coming weekend… about three hours too far south…
I doubt that my parenthood (twice over now) will permit me to make it down…
While I don’t blame you at all for moving Finder to a TPB-only publication schedule (I can hardly keep up with all the good graphic novels coming out so have pretty much stopped buying single issues), I do seriously miss getting the periodic 20-some pages from you, and am not disciplined enough or enough of a web reader to follow the online stuff. But, I am so happy to click onto your site from time to time and see that Finder continues. Can’t wait for the next TPB, and if you end up making a side trip to Seattle, give me a shout.
Superfan always,
Brad Chamberlain
Congrats on the Dark Horse deal! I’ll be pre-ordering the giant omnibus, looking forward to reading it all in one sitting.
Congratulations! So we’ve been reading the second of your “Ghost Quartet” graphic novels. Okay. But a question: when (if at all) do you quit serving us up these free pages we’re so grateful for? Do we get to finish reading Torch before a Feb 2012 trade paperback release?
Heard about the move to Dark Horse. Congratulations! I’ll be ordering the giant omnibus editions as soon as they can be ordered.
I’m not sure if this is the most appropriate place to ask this, but since can’t figure out where else…
I was wondering if you are selling any of the original art from Wasteland #7?
While I was prepping a mass of my comics to sell, I ran across my copy of MYSTERY DATE #1. That one I saved ! Still need to find #2….. A fine issue, a good story, and a very attractive cover. Thanks for creating it !
Perhaps cheeky to mention it here, but it’s probably of interest to the finder crowd: Nina Paley has made an animation for the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
https://w2.eff.org/ninapaley
Lookin forward to seein u in artist’s alley at San Diego this wkend SPEED!
Great. I really love Finder, I fell in love with Marcie and carried that book around with me for weeks at a time. Obsession? Total!