Friday, June 1, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Leaping Tall Buildings is out this week!
LeapingTall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics comes out in bookstores everywhere this week. The hardcover book is the culmination of four years of work for us, as you followers of GNYC all know. You may have gotten the initial stories before, but Leaping is how it all fits together--and comes complete with the dazzling design work of Eric Skillman!
Flavorwire says of Leaping: “You may think you know the men and women behind your favorite superheroes, but of course, there’s yet another man behind Clark Kent — his creator.”
Wired.com just featured Leaping Tall Buildings, along with interviews with Kushner and Irving, and noted that “Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics gives the writers and artists who create them a chance to shine.”
Also, Christopher’s The Drawn Word video interview with X-Men writer Chris Claremont has also just been released and can be seen below. It comes after Christopher's earlier interviews with Mad Magazine’s Peter Kuper and G.I. Joe’s Larry Hama. Next up is his discussion with Bottomless Belly Button creator Dash Shaw.
Leaping Tall Buildings is published by powerhouse Books, while The Drawn Word TV is co-produced between Irving and Christian Guzman of CSpin Films.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Come see Graphic NYC and Trip City at MoCCA Fest! AND PART-AY!!!
Hot off the presses! Trip City will have fresh copies of the TRIP CITY GUIDE 2012, our very first literary arts print anthology available for sale [$5] atJeffrey C. Burandt aka Jef UK’s table [I2] at the MoCCA Fest 2012 this weekend [April 28 -29, from 11am - 6pm], located at the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 Lexington Avenue in NYC.
Plus, Americans UK will be in attendance with writer and front-man Jef UKhawking the latest Rocktronic Mixtape 2 anthology, featuring stories by Michael Lapinski, Aaron Bir, Zees, and more of indy comix rising talents! And, check out some new tunes by way of their Kickstarter-funded Luxuria EP on vinyl, while you're there. Plus, AM/UK will have new t-shirts in new colors, in all sizes. AM/UK comix artists Paul Ciarvino and Zees Moreno will be sitting in too, available for sketches and signing books!
Photographer Seth Kushner and writer Christopher Irving will be at thepowerHouse Books table [B6] on Saturday: 11:00-12:30 and 3:00-4:30 + Sunday: 1:00-2:30 and 4:30-6:00, along with writer, to sell and sign their gorgeous tome, LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: The Origins of American Comics, as well as, sell exclusive LTB posters designed by artists, Peter Kuper, Becky Cloonan and Dean Haspiel [who will be signing from 3-4pm on Saturday].
And, finally, don’t be shy to whoop it up at the MoCCA Fest 2012 Official AfterParty, produced by Jeff Newelt aka Jah Furry on Saturday, April 28th from 7pm – 10pm at the Village Pourhouse, 64 3rd Ave (at 11th st), New York, NY 10003
A TITANIC TEAM-UP
The MoCCA Fest 2012 Official AfterParty + @HARVEY PEKAR’s CLEVELAND Launch Party!
Live Music by DANIEL JOHNSTON
+ Special Appearance by JEFFREY LEWIS
+ hosted/produced by JEFF NEWELT
+ DJ BRIAN HEATER
+ TOASTS to LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: The Origins of American Comics (w/photos by Seth Kushner); BLUE graphic novel by PAT GRANT; Lit/Arts salon TRIP CITY: and the 6th Anniversary of indie webcomix collective ACTIVATEcomix.
***Sponsored by Top Shelf Comix & ZIP Comics***
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http://welcometotripcity.com/
Monday, April 23, 2012
Part One of Christopher's Larry Hama Interview Debuts!
The Drawn Word TV, a video production between Christopher Irving’s Drawn Word and Christian Guzman’s CSpin Films, premieres a two-part interview with comics luminary Larry Hama this week! Hama created G.I.Joe while at Marvel Comics in 1982, and is a legendary cartoonist/writer/editor, having nothing less under his belt than also writing Wolverine and editing The ‘Nam.
Hama’s G.I.Joe comics world is being brought to life this summer in G.I.Joe: Retaliation, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Bruce Willis. In this exclusive interview, Hama and Irving discuss the origins of Joe, as well as Hama’s foray into acting, including his bit part in the cult classic film The Warriors. Part One is already up, with Part Two being released on Wednesday.
Irving and his Graphic NYC partner Seth Kushner will be at MOCCAFest this weekend, to celebrate their new book Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics, which also features a profile on Larry Hama, along with dozens of other comic book creators. Copies of LTB, as well as exclusive prints by the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, will be on sale at table B6.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Molly Crabapple's Week in Hell
Molly Crabapple, whose influences stem from people not comics-related, ironically renewed that cultural memory with Week in Hell, the art book that spotlights her five days spent covering 270 feet of paper with art while locked up in a hotel room. When you consider how obsessive-compulsive Molly's style is regarding filling space, that's more than just "quite" a feat.
The background for Week in Hell is revealed in Warren Ellis' stirring introduction: Molly opened a Kickstarter campaign to fund her five day artistic exile, and wound up with an overwhelming surplus from the initial $4,500. Chances are, the surplus was extra motivation for Molly, who wound up cutting the 270 feet into 720 sections to send off to the majority of her donors.
Documented in photographs and details of the art, Week in Hell is a behind the scenes look of Molly's trial: there are no pictures of Molly (as Ellis put it) "punching her hand" to wake it up for drawing once more, and she seems characteristically put together in every shot, but the truth is that she covered a shit ton of paper in the course of five days. That averages out to about 54 feet of paper a day and equals out to nothing but being tired as hell at the end of it.
What Week in Hell does is serves as another feather in the cap of Kickstarter and gives a look at Crabapple's transition to her next stage as an artist/cartoonist/illustrator.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Christopher Moderates at the Rubin on Wednesday!
On Wednesday, Christopher will moderate the comic book artists who have recreated the Wheel of Life! It's part of the Rubin Museum's Hero, Villian, and Yeti exhibit and the corresponding Karma Con programming! The seven artists (including a few faces familiar to GNYC) who each drew their own version of one of the Wheel's sections are:
- Molly Crabapple
- Ben Granoff
- Michael Kupperman
- Rodney Greenblat
- Steven Guarnaccia
- Katie Skelly
- Josh Neufeld
The Wheel of Life unveiling starts at 7:00 at the Rubin Museum (150 W 17th Street in Manhattan) and is free and open to the public. You can find more info here.
See you then!
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