Sunday, August 29, 2010

Michael Kupperman and Tales Designed to Thrizzle's Lessons in Absurdity

Words: Christopher Irving . Pictures: Seth Kushner


“For me, comics are uncertain territory, and that’s why I feel I have to reach beyond comics to find my audience. People who appreciate my comics aren’t just into comics, but more into comedy. A lot of the attention I’ve been getting in the past years has been outside of comics.”

“What I’m doing is more along the lines of sketch comedy,” Michael Kupperman says. “I grew up with Monty Python and SCTV, and those shows had a profound influence on me, through the writing and tone. My comic is humor for childish adults. I think I’m actually going to start putting that on the cover. It’s stuff that makes me laugh and part of my working method is to make stuff that will make others laugh as well.”

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Dean Haspiel's Emmy Win

Picture: Seth Kushner

We at GRAPHIC NYC are proud to announce that our friend and the subject of our upcoming book, Dean Haspiel: The Early Years, Dean Haspiel, has won an Emmy award for his contribution to the opening title sequence of the Jonathan Ames HBO series Bored To Death.

View the Emmy Award winning opening below.


Congrats, Dino!

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Friday, August 6, 2010

Paul Guinan & Anina Bennett: 4 Color Portrait

Words & Picture: Seth Kushner

Recent news of J J Abrams' plan to adapt Paul Guinan's & Anina Bennett's book, Boilerplate into a film make this the  perfect time to post this 4 Color Portrait of the creators.

The married couple created and co-wrote illustrated a coffee-table book, Boilerplate, published last year.
Anina and Paul also created the Heartbreakers Superdigest series of sci-fi graphic novels together.

More about Ania & Paul can be found at their site, www.bigredhair.com 

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