The Big Launch - Comic Book Tattoo.
Been inking, and writing, and doing a lot of walking still.
Up side to the insanity of visiting Toronto is all the exercise, reminds me to keep it going at home. With the always present list of things to do when your freelance, it easy to forget to get off your ass sometimes.
And of course the net always calls to be fed. To bad it doesn't take walks and crap itself. Been contemplating getting a dog friend lately.
Didn't get to the big SDCC this year. Had thought I would but changed my mind. Timing was just not suitable - need to get a lot done this month.
But Damn, it would have been cool to have been there for the official big launch of Comic Book Tattoo, Tori Amos's monster anthology book!
The photo here of a panel is by the K-Squared: They have a nice full report posted about the panel at the con, with Amos, Rantz, and 6 of the contributors. And the Tori Amos signing later. And there is a clip of the panel posted here on Flicker by comiquero.com, dug up by Russell Lissau.
There's also some cool shots up on Rantz flicker stream. And K. Star St.Germain posted the first page from what looks like a stunning story here. And i love this shot Sarah Jaffe took of herself with the book. There's a set here of one of the signings. And bellow is Rantz with some folks who posted this on their feed, proud owners of a limited edition. I believe word is everything that went with them to SDCC is gone, all sold out! There's a lot of buz on this thing.
Quite excited to see this thing, been kind of holding out in an act of perverse denial of reward i suppose. :)
I hope my story printed well. Kind of afraid to see how it looks along side some of the other stuff in the previews!
ED: New Stuff. 1st Review of the book.
Posed here on Bust. Dug up by Derek.
And CBR has, a TV channel...? First i've here of this...
In anticipation of the debut of Comic Book Tattoo at Comic-Con International in San Diego, CBR TV, in association with MySpace Comic Books, caught up with Tori Amos at Amoeba Music in Hollywood for an exclusive one-on-one interview about the new massive Image Comics anthology, which features new work by a host of sequential art's brightest and most innovative talents, all turning in new work based on the songs of Tori Amos.
There's that link to Star's work, and mine & Mark's up on Myspace, you also get this sneak peek on CBR, these on undented.com, this with Jennifer M. Contino on the the PULSE, a publisher's weekly article here, and aintitcool.com does it's thing here with more lovely art, AOL/Spinner has a huge interview and article with Rantz, Tori, David Mack, Colleen Doran, and Ted McKeever here. And finally from newsarama this is the FULL line up, feast the eyes.
David Mack Josh Hechinger, Matthew Humphreys, Kristyn Ferretti (L) Jonathan Tsuei, Eric Canete Jason Horn, Dean Trippe Sara Ryan, Jonathan Case Rantz A. Hoseley, James Stokoe Tristan Crane, Atticus Wolrab Kako Nikki Cook Drew Bell, Kevin Mellon, Mark Sweeney (C) Jeff Carroll, Mike May Jeremy Haun, Amber Stone (C) Leif Jones Elizabeth Genco, Carla Speed Mcneil, Mark Sweeney (C) Kelly Sue Deconnick, Andy Macdonald,Nick Filardi(C),Kristyn Ferretti(L) Cat Mihos, Andre Szymanowicz, Gabe Bautista(C), Kristyn Ferretti(L) C.B. Cebulksi, Ethan Young, Joey Weltjens & Lee Duhig For Guru Efx (C) Omaha Perez Irma Page, Mark Buckingham Rantz A. Hoseley, Ming Doyle, Mark Sweeney(C), Kristyn Ferretti (L) Mike Maihack John Ney Reiber, Ryan Kelly, Kristyn Ferretti (L) Alice Hunt, Trudy Cooper Jonathan Hickman Matthew S. Armstrong Neil Kleid, Christopher Mitten, Kristyn Ferretti(L) Stephanie Leong, Sonia Leong Peov Kelly Sue Deconnick, Laurenn Mccubbin John Bivens Hope Larson Emma Vieceli, Faye Yong(C) Chris Arrant, Star St.Germain Mike Dringenberg Paul Maybury Jim Bricker, Craig Taillefer Dame Darcy G. Willow Wilson, Steve Sampson Neal Shaffer, Daniel Krall Adisakdi Tantimedh, Ken Meyer Jr. Mark Sable, Salgood Sam Tom Williams James Owen Seth Peck, Daniel Heard Ivan Brandon, Callum Alexander Watt Leah Moore & John Reppion, Pia Guerra, Mark Sweeney, Kristyn Ferretti Jessica Staley, Shane White Ted Mckeever, Chris Chuckry (C) Jimmie Robinson Lea Hernandez Derek Mcculloch, Colleen Doran, Jason Hanley (L)
wOW!
Labels: Art, COMIC BOOK TATTOO, launch, Photos, press
posted by max at 7/27/2008 01:22:00 AM

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Exclusive preview of Upside Down for COMIC BOOK TATTOO!
Thanks to Tori and Rantz, we are very honored to present Mark and I's upside down interpretation of Upside Down [vid].
It's been posted on MySpace Comic Books site today as a preview for the book. You can read it all there! :)
Mark and I are working on an interview with each other to be posted soon to go with this.
This was a great short story to work on, I'm very happy with how the collaboration with Mark tuned out, very excited about this one.
Comic Book Tattoo is going to be an amazing showcase book, i haven't read the other stories yet, but i've seen lots of the pages here and there - the book looks amazing!
This is the first of three anthologies I'm going to be in between now and December, what a way to kick things off.Labels: Art, COMIC BOOK TATTOO, Comics, launch, News, press
posted by max at 7/03/2008 07:16:00 PM

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Forgive us our sins - montrealmirror.com
from http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/120607/books2.html Local illustrator Salgood Sam and author Jim Munroe create a post-Rapture work in Therefore Repent! by VINCENT TINGUELY
When prolific indie author, quick and dirty filmmaker and DIY organizer Jim Munroe got a grant to create Therefore Repent!, a full-length "post-Rapture" graphic novel, Montreal-based, long-time Munroe fan and sometime collaborator Salgood Sam jumped at the chance to render it. "I'd read an early Munroe novella at a zine fair when I was 19 or 20 and I really liked it," says Sam. "I've been following his stuff ever since. When you really identify with a writer's vision, they've tapped the voice you hear inside yourself, they're appealing to you on that level." Sam spent more than a year meticulously bringing Munroe's ideas to life, drawing on skills honed in both the indie comics realm and through years of grunt work for the likes of Marvel. "Jim's a good writer to collaborate with because he was into gearing it into what I was into doing," Sam says. "I didn't have to do any contortions to visualize the script as I was reading it." Munroe agrees. "He's perfect, because he can do the hipsters and the hellspawn," says Munroe. "He can do urban settings very well and true to life, but also fascinating fantastical things."
Therefore Repent! begins with the arrival of the fascinating and fantastical Raven and Mummy in a near-future Chicago. Munroe, who's based in Toronto, set the story in an American city because, as he quips, "They go together like peanut butter and jelly, America and the Rapture." 144,000 Christians have floated up to heaven, Jesus has joined George W. in the White House, and heavily armed angels from on high are descending to do the Lord's dirty work on Earth. Things would seem quite hopeless for the rest of us godless (i.e. not fundamentalist) sorts, except that magic is afoot...everything from Eastern cosmic insights to transubstantiation actually works. Soon enough, a grassroots magical insurgency starts to form.
"I was inspired by this idea that the most powerful people in America purport to literally believe in Christians floating into the air, into heaven, which is what George W. Bush says he believes in," says Munroe. "That's pretty mind blowing, that in their own mythology they'd have something that wild-especially when the conservatives have problems with Harry Potter."
After a more ambiguous approach to the idea of evil in An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, Munroe decided to go for a dark fantasy scenario in which, if miracles, angels and such were to be given free play, then other forms of magic would be just as valid. "Well, if people are going to float into the air, how about less top-down magical manifestations?" Munroe says. "Religion is very top-down, it's God or who God specifically anoints. But if there is magic from on high, then it is going to emerge from below as well, if people are willing to explore it and not kowtow to the powers that be. I like the idea of it being nascent in all of us, but only if we embrace it-individual power, rather than waiting for other people to anoint us. The whole DIY, coming from the grassroots thing."
Therefore Repent! launches this Saturday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore (211 Bernard W.)
cool beans!
Labels: Comics, events, launch, montreal, News, press, repent press, Therefore Repent
posted by max at 12/06/2007 04:29:00 PM

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Montreal Launch Dec 8th
posted by max at 11/25/2007 10:58:00 PM

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