Link to Blair Butler running down her Best Of 2008, giving both Local and Northlanders second-place spots in their respective categories.
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- Finnish blogger spots the Nikon D40/DMZ connection: http://tinyurl.com/7ugou5 3 minutes ago
- If you couldn’t find the new Supermarket edition: http://khepricom.livejournal.com/269427.html about 2 hours ago
- Audrey’s new cat. http://twitpic.com/z5oh about 21 hours ago
- reminder: Northlanders, Supermarket out today 1 day ago
- DMZ is now being published in Polish. 1 day ago
- finished “The Forgery Of Venus” by Michael Gruber, now on to “Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling” by Ross King 1 day ago
- New York Four process: http://tinyurl.com/6wyyjl 1 day ago
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The Professional Germophobe, originally uploaded by brianwood.
We were killing time this morning in Babies R Us and were offered a free portrait in their “Kiddie Kandids” studio, which is their version of a Sears Portrait Studio. Why not? Good for a laugh. We chose a lovely background, and the only prop Audrey wanted - and wouldn’t let go of - was a large bottle of Purell. The ladies running the place were horrified when we wouldn’t stop laughing. My little germaphobe.
Back when years only had three numbers in them, men lived or died by sword and superstition. After years of blade brawls, Sven—the lead of Brian Wood’s Viking drama Northlanders (DC Comics/Vertigo, $9.99)—decides to change his warrish ways and return to his family’s estate in Orkney. But in the first collected volume of this ongoing series, Sven finds that returning home can be the most displacing (and violent) journey of all. Amid all the enjoyably bloody battles and desperate sex (gorgeously rendered by Davide Gianfelice), Wood cleverly plays with the philosophical and religious shifts overcoming not only Sven, but the cultures clashing all over the world during the Dark Ages. (link)
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DMZ, another year of stories: 264 pages.
Northlanders, another year: 264 pages.
Demo, six issue miniseries: 132 pages.
The New York Four, the sequel book we signed contracts for, will happen this year. I’m chatting with DC about format still, but assuming right now it’s not any shorter or longer than the first book: 144 pages.
Something Unannounced: 176 pages (might possibly bleed into 2010, but hopefully not)
I have some ideas I’d love to see done, DMZ specials, a short graphic novel, etc. But that’s all in the theoretical category right now. I can guesstimate 100 pages, since I fully intend to at least start on something shortly.
2009: give or take 1,080 pages of comics written.
Unless I die.
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I found a bunch of people on Facebook from my high school years, and with that a lot of photo albums of old local punk rock and hardcore bands that I knew. Here is a picture of, I believe, local NYHC-style band COLORBLIND, playing some random street in Burlington, VT.
I love the mix of skaters, punk rock kids, rednecks, and assorted losers milling about. Pretty much par for the course. Somewhere, I have an old cassette copy of the COLORBLIND demo…
(found on Jason Damien Us’ page)
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Found here. I hope he does more of these.
Local #1: “Intense and beautiful, as any story set in Portland should be. One scene, four outcomes. I want this girl to win & I want you to read this!”
Local #6: “Why do I care this much for Megan? The emotional torment is real. I can feel her sincerity even as she does totally retarded things.”
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LOCAL- Washington, D.C., originally uploaded by funrama.
Another masterful drawing of Megan from our book LOCAL. © Ryan Kelly.
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