Brian Wood - Comics + Graphic Novels http://brianwood.com/blog Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 en G4 gives me second place, two times http://brianwood.com/blog/2009/01/05/g4-gives-me-second-place-two-times/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2009/01/05/g4-gives-me-second-place-two-times/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:54:56 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/?p=360 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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]]> http://brianwood.com/blog/2009/01/03/recent-twitters/feed/ The Professional Germophobe http://brianwood.com/blog/2009/01/01/the-professional-germophobe/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2009/01/01/the-professional-germophobe/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:30:03 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/2009/01/01/the-professional-germophobe/

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.

]]> http://brianwood.com/blog/2009/01/01/the-professional-germophobe/feed/ Time Out NY on NORTHLANDERS http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/31/time-out-ny-on-northlanders/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/31/time-out-ny-on-northlanders/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:19:49 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/?p=344

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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]]> http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/31/time-out-ny-on-northlanders/feed/ Audrey in the Viking/Medieval section of my library http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/29/audrey-in-the-vikingmedieval-section-of-my-library/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/29/audrey-in-the-vikingmedieval-section-of-my-library/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:56:22 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/29/audrey-in-the-vikingmedieval-section-of-my-library/

DSC_0080-pola, originally uploaded by brianwood.

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]]> http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/29/audrey-in-the-vikingmedieval-section-of-my-library/feed/ What my 2009 looks like, in comics http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/26/what-my-2009-looks-like-in-comics/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/26/what-my-2009-looks-like-in-comics/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:32:28 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/?p=339 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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]]> http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/26/what-my-2009-looks-like-in-comics/feed/ Riccardo Burchielli’s DMZ xmas card http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/25/riccardo-burchiellis-dmz-xmas-card/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/25/riccardo-burchiellis-dmz-xmas-card/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:24:11 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/25/riccardo-burchiellis-dmz-xmas-card/

Riccardo Burchielli’s DMZ xmas card, originally uploaded by brianwood.

]]> http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/25/riccardo-burchiellis-dmz-xmas-card/feed/ Burlington, VT c. 1990 (?) http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/17/burlington-vt-c-1990/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/17/burlington-vt-c-1990/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:07:02 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/?p=330 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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]]> http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/17/burlington-vt-c-1990/feed/ Reviews of LOCAL, 140-characters or less http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/14/reviews-of-local-140-characters-or-less/ http://brianwood.com/blog/2008/12/14/reviews-of-local-140-characters-or-less/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:47:21 +0000 Brian Wood http://brianwood.com/blog/?p=324 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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