Latest bit of work for Imago, illustrated engineered and edited by me, Ange J Murphy directing.
pondered some more complex ideas but we ultimately kept it elegant, simple, and under 2 min. Bit hectic getting it done but a fun little project!
The play is intense, a classic revenge story. Literally, based on the story of Philomela, found in Book VI of the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid. It was cool Imago wanted looser work from me, i’ve enjoyed the opportunity to experiment with a broader approach to the art here. I really like doing gestural work but there’s seldom call for it in my freelance contract work. Check out information about the play here, and get tickets to see what’s sure to be a powerful piece here. Play runs October 9 – 19, 2013, at the Centaur Theatre.
This past Sunday was my 43rd birthday. I don’t much like parties for my birthdays. It’s not actually a negative thing. I just realized along the way I liked introspective birthdays or spending the time with family or friends but NOT being the reason or point of the gathering.
This year I planned nothing but lots happened. The saturday night before I met some friends and new acquaintances at a bar downtown, an after convention party of comics pro’s and guest stars. My favorite and really prefered part of any comic con. This time didn’t even in fact go to the convention, just the after party. It was a nice night and i came away with a copy of Becky Cloonan’s latest self published book, Demeter! Looks really good. :)
Sunday was actually a little bit of a work day, in the afternoon we met with a client Ange and I are working on a video for. It was productive and we had a nice walk after.
We’d had lunch before after Attending in the morning my cousin Julie’s daughters naming ceremony, her Zeved Habat.
We didn’t see a lot of little Lyla Rachel, but what we could was heartwarming.
A large Modern Orthodox Jewish ceremony. Lyla Rachel looked cute and slept through the whole thing it looked like.
She was brought into the room by all the women of her family.
Passed from grandmother to aunt to cousin to grandmother who held her while her parents conducted the introduction of their second daughter to their extended family. Julie tells me they named in part after my father, her uncle [Lionel]. It wasn’t I think an intended birthday gift, but a lovely one nonetheless.
I probably distinguished myself by my attempted dedication to respecting house rules. Not being religious I of course forgot to bring a kippah with me – I have a few now actually, from weddings or family events like this and i’m pretty good about remembering sometimes. But, it’s not often really the first thing on my mind honestly. Couldn’t see any near the entrance, where often you’ll find some.
So I improvised with my scarf.
Didn’t get too many looks, but one older fellow had a great laugh with me at my expense. It was abandoned soon at the show was over and we went downstairs, but I kind of like the look! ;)
Our side is a pretty big extended mostly lapsed Jewish family, we have many cousins. But Julie’s husband Ilan’s side of the family is impressively large and I think mostly filled a banquet hall with their troops alone! Lovely folks that i’ve met so far. Though watch out around a buffet!
Also saw my aunt and cousins which was nice.
One was Alan, a cousin from my father’s generation who gave me a copy of the amazing book he just published of his father’s work. “A Colourful Life – The Art and Drawing of Josh Silburt”. A catalog of his professional cartooning and paintings.
This is the site he set up as well as part of the long-term project of keeping his father’s work in the public eye.
Josh Silburt married one of several sisters, another of whom is my grandmother. Both he and another of their husbands were professional cartoonists at one time. Something I was told often by my grandmother. Doing sports and political cartoons for the Canadian press. She always made a point about how he moved on to become a very accomplished painter too and I grew up with many of his landscapes on various relatives living room walls as a kid.
The book is a comprehensive archive quality coffee table tome. Alan tells me he’s planing a launch event in Toronto in october for it. Didn’t plan to be but might just have to try to book a few days trip down to attend that. Here’s a look at the inside.
“Revolver is the very type of comic i want to make, filled with poetic short stories of dreams and loneliness, visually stunning and unique, with just the right mix of reality and fancy.” – Farel Dalrymple
A few nice words from friends always makes promoting a new book easier!
After a short delay Revolver is back.
Print on demand copies will be available soon but for now I’m focusing efforts on a digital first business plan for Revolver – Still want it to be a physical book for myself and those that want it, but going digital first makes getting it to you the reader a lot easier. The POD edition will be available in October.
So here we go, Revolver Quarterly Vol.2, the digital edition! Grab your copies direct from salgoodsam.com here. Other than a few cents for paypal all funds go directly to supporting the creator!
¢99: 28 pages, 7″ x 10″, 200 dpi . PDF & CBR copies bundled in a 50.5 mb zip file. No DRM.
The feature story in this Vol. is Honolulu Lorie’s Lava Love Lounge and Poodle Emporium!
Seven pages inspired by the rhythms and themes of the great Tom Waits, whom I’ve long admired. And some scumbags, old friends I knew from Toronto but mostly from and still in Windsor Ont.
Early draft was scrawled on napkins and band flyers in various bars in the ‘90s while Waits’ music filled my ears.
Also found within, illustrations, a cut scene from my graphic novel Dream Life, and a pair of images created for Occupy Comics.
Some old Comic Jam pages in back, along with an article about my personal history with Jams.
All my downloadable books can be found here, including Revolver One.
¢99: 28 pages, 7″ x 10″, 200 dpi . PDF & CBR copies bundled in a 50.5 mb zip file. No DRM. ~ Feature story is Honolulu Lorie’s Lava Love Lounge and Poodle Emporium! Also found within, illustrations, a cut scene from my graphic novel Dream Life. Some Comic Jam pages & an article about my personal history with Jams. More Info »
Revolver Quarterly Vol.1 is a collection of seven short stories, assorted words and pictures, exploring diverse themes of mortality, belonging, and identity. By Salgood Sam, including collaborations with John O'Brien, A.J. Duric, & The MMCJ. ~ 52 pages, 8" x 10", at 150 dpi, 8" x 10". PDF & CBR copies bundled in a 60.6 mb zip file. No DRM. ~ The original B&W edition of the book earned Salgood a 'Best Emerging Talent' nomination in the 2005 Doug Wright Awards! More Info »
Was recently contacted a few times about it, thought I’d post an update on it broadly. I wish I had a spare body to run from a duplexed brain, but no luck. So MOSTLY I’ll not be going to things this year.
One notable exception: I’ll be helping to launch the new graphic novel collection at the Prince Edward County Public Library at the Picton Branch! Something old friends are behind that I like! Been to Picton and surrounding region before, have fond memories. Since then a few of my oldMontreal Comix Jam cohorts have moved there, started a local jam. The talented Niall Eccles donated what i’m sure was an impressive personal collection to seed the new dept, i’m going to embarrass him with praise, talk up our medium, hang out with some of the old gang and make some new friends for the launch. Looking forward to it. Thanks to Susanne Larner for putting me up while in town and Liz Zylstra for arranging everything.
I’m not attending the upcoming Fan Expo in Toronto.
Which is mostly too bad because I was nominated for a 2013 Joe Shuster Award in the Webcomics Creator category! I hear the winners have been chosen, the big night is Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 8:30 PM. JACKMAN HALL, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto.
Ideally I’d go but busy with Dracula and the slightly delayed revolver.
I’m skipping the Montreal Comic Con this year too. Though I’ll be around for hanging out with friends in town that want to. Be glad to hook up for drinks and yakking after the show! Usually the best part anyway. Or lunch maybe? Food tips/suggestion: One of my favourite places for dumplings and noodles is the Noodle Factory around the corner from the show. Better than it might sound. Excellent affordable food, takeout or sit down. Be lovely to join you for noms there. Walking instructions, take the rout on Rue de la Gauchetière Ouest for the nicest view, or walk the length of the convention center inside to the other end of the Metro station if it’s raining.
Also not tabling at Expozine this year. I usually try to make a point of going to it, only missed a few. This year I’ll be teaching a Drawing class weekends at Syn Studio downtown at the same time! Which I’m pretty happy about but will clash with the show. I many be free to go check it out for a bit in the mornings or hang out again after work maybe? So that’s all good. But hey if any of my local comics and arts friends feel like presenting other people’s books or prints at their table I can provide a few reliable sellers and try to send folks your way. Let me know and we can work out something mutually beneficial.
Webcomics Creator / Créateur de Bandes Dessinées Web Attila Adorjany (Cartoonist /Auteur) – Metaphyssical Neuroma Jayd Ait-Kaci (Artist /Dessinateur) – The Fox Sister Sophie Bédard (Cartoonist /Auteur) – Glorieux Printemps 9-20 Michael DeForge (Cartoonist /Auteur) – Ant Comic Iris (Cartoonist /Auteur) – Folk Salgood Sam (Cartoonist /Auteur) – Dream Life Ty Templeton (Cartoonist /Auteur) – Bun Toons
So on to Dracula.
Thought it was time we shared a public update.
Work on Dracula son of the dragon is well underway, I’m penciling away and every 4 pages I’ve been finishing one page to work out the specific style guide for the tones and colours. I’ll probably tweak things as I go but it’s coming together pretty good so far I think. Mark was surprised with the pallet, he expected fewer colours. It’s more broad than the pilot for sure, but still very limited and plan to keep it that way. Next one I do like this will be something more neutral I think. We’ve got action and moody down here I think. Picked two showy splash pages to ink first and color, so as to have something to show off. This is the first shot of Vlad Tepes in the story, and the other is of Hunyadi being unseated by Vlad’s father Dracul in a jousting match in Nuremberg. Like our facebook page to keep up with things on Dracula.
Dream Life!
Here’s the whole book in InDesign. The pages with the yellow tint are roughs for a scene i’m trying to make up my mind about adding. Did the thumbs weeks ago, scripted it tonight, think i have to do it. It feels needed.
Got to get the rest of the lettering done too, about 20 pages worth i think to go over, but some of that is silent or has minimal text. But knowing that got to watch i don’t put it off to long too. Doing some of it tonight next.
6 more to do washes on too i think. Boy this book has been a crap ton of work. Close though. Nice to look it all over like this in ID. End is within reach!
The blank pages in the back are for the extras the backers are getting in their special editions, there will be 20 pages of them! Ok. Back to work for me,
Hey so i’m excited to announce i’m teaching a drawing class this fall, 10 classes at Syn Studio in Montreal, emphasising the physicality of drawing from technique to capturing motion and energy in your art.
Some unconventional aspects will be moving live models, field trips to events, and even a free 1hr T’ai chi class [included in base cost] to help you get into thinking about how your body and joints work both for tool use and relating to bodies in motion. Followed by an hour of drawing the T’ai chi instructor!
I’m hoping it proves to be a fun and engaging class! I’m happy to hear we already have a few students signed up, there’s still spots for open so consider joining us for it!
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Dynamique Drawing
First class is Saturday the 5th of October 4:30 to 7:30pm.
Class dates are all at the same time.
Oct 5, 12, 19, 26
Sept 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Dec 7th, final class.
Year end party & exhibit TBA Early Registration price is $410.
Regular registration rate is $470. *Early Registration Deadline: August 7th at 11:59 P.M.
The RSA animates helped to popularize this style of presentation, I’ve just started experimenting with the approach and enjoy it quite a bit.
It’s ideal for communicating ideas clearly for just about any client, and viewers seem to enjoy watching cartoon art drawn on camera even just for its own sake!
I can provide full services from development of the script to final posting and hosting on Youtube or other video sites.
Contact me about rates for your next viral video project.
Music is “Instrumental“, by Sinphonic from Man Vs Himself [1997]
Used with thanks to the talented George Westerholm and co.
That’s the magic number right? :) less than buck now gets you my critically acclaimed 1st issue of RevolveЯ Quarterly on ComiXology submit! I’ve matched that price for the copies you can purchase from me directly here on this site.
Been debating how to handle the series now that it’s on Comixology. I’d like to lower any barriers with price point, but it does not make a lot of sense to sell 52+ pages for 99 cents. So i’m going to switch to a page count with Vol 2 on, more in line with it rather than try to sell the issues for more.
Starting with Vol 2 Revolver will be 28 pages. Vol 1 is still the same, but from now on the rest will be that.
A bonus is this makes getting it out more regularly a lot easier too. I had planned to have a larger version of Vol 2 out awhile ago now, but this first serious venture into self publishing has been challenging. Resistance/reluctance from retailers for independent books is strong!
Customers have been enthusiastic, I sold many copies at TCAF this year, readers have been awesome. But It’s very hard to get meaningful numbers of retailers to pick up an independently distributed book – a few amazing shops have but not many. And right now I don’t have the capital to back roll something for Diamond so looking for workable solutions to this.
For now though, sticking with what leeway I’ve made in the digital market – Comixology is coming up on a 100 sales since Vol 1 went up, I’ve sold a couple a week off my own site for a while now, and with my recent Dracula Kickstarter with Mark Sable I now have about 300 subscribed readers for vol 1 through 8!
A decent audience has been seeded. For now I have to focus on building on that and getting the next 7 issues out in a timely fashion.
This is the start of something big I hope, coming soon to Comixology is my next graphic novel Dream Life, and very shortly RevolveЯ Quarterly Vol 2 will come out digital first from my site and Comixology. And with Vol 4 my new series with Mark Sable will make its first appearance, watch for Dracula Son of the Dragon.
So i’ve been packing and preparing all week, in the morning i’m going for a haircut, and then catching a ride to Toronto for TCAF!
I have mixed feelings about the show this year. I’d hoped to have Dream Life ready for a sophomore presentation, but fell short of the mark on the deadline.
It was close but I’m just getting too old to kill myself anymore and I really don’t want to present something compromised for the quality of the art. Additionally really the backers from the Indiegogo drive should get it first so had to adjust my plans for the book. It looks great, just want to make sure it’s right. On the up side I have less stuff to carry and I do have a book new to the show. 40 copies of Revolver One, along with some prints, and 100 free Monster of Montreal bookmarks. Featuring the cover art for the upcoming Revolver Two.
I’ve set it up so I can live blog for the floor maybe, stay tuned. Follow my Instagram feed to catch the sights. And I tweet more often now thanks to a phone upgrade.
Part historical fiction, part horror fantasy, a comic book chronicling Vlad the Impaler’s transformation into the vampire Dracula.
An original comics series by Mark Sable (Graveyard of Empires) & Salgood Sam (Sea of Red, Therefore Repent! Dream Life).
UPDATE: WE MADE IT! Thanks to all our backers and everyone who helped make it happen! News and updates coming soon, in the meantime follow us on facebook for the latest.
The Story… We know the story of the Vlad Tepes, the so-called “historical Dracula”. But how did a 15th century “Impaler” become the world’s most notorious vampire? This first, heavily-researched book in this series will start with Vlad Dracula’s childhood. He’ll learn early, hard lessons in politics and betrayal as a young prince in his native Wallachia and Transylvania as a prisoner of the Ottoman Turks. Then, drawing from hints in Bram Stoker’s novel, we’ll begin to learn how Vlad became introduced the Dark Arts at the infamous Scholomance.
To survive his adolescence, young Prince Vlad believes he must kill in the name to serve the Holy Roman Order of The Dragon. But when the same Church that sanctified these deeds denies him access to Heaven, he’ll realize the only way to escape eternal damnation is the immortality that only the undead can grant.
Our hope is with your help, to use Kickstarter to finance the production of the first 60-page volume of Dracula: Son of the Dragon and publish a set of limited first run editions.
These will range from digital editions to hand bound leather tomes designed to evoke the 15th century printing of Vlad Dracula’s reign.
Part of your contribution will go towards compensating Salgood for his time drawing, toning and hand-lettering the story. The rest of the money we raise will go towards financing the manufacture of the first planed editions for backers, and cover the shipping for the same.
This will include four limited edition print versions of the book available exclusively for backers.
A drive-only black and white trade paperback “ashcan” edition with a generous amounts of support material making it 90 pages in all.
A first run full-color trade paperback edition.
A limited, Leatherette hand bound and letterpress style printed soft cover bound by Soundless Soliloquy.
And, an exclusive leather-bound, hand tooled and bound collector’s copy by No Bar Code Press.
These first editions of Dracula: Son of the Dragon will be self-published by Salgood Sam, using local artisans for the hand-made limited editions, and CreateSpace for the trade-paperbacks. The first print collections will be delivered to packers in May of 2014. A Separate retail edition will also be made available shortly after, sans the extra features that distinguish the special editions for backers.
Digital versions of the story will be serialized quarterly in Salgood’s RevolveЯ Quarterly, starting in mid to late 2013. (All backers over $15 will receive a 6 issues subscription to digital editions of RevolveЯ).
In addition, we’re offering a variety of perks, including original artwork, script consultation from writer (and writing instructor) Mark Sable, even the chance to appear in the book as a character!
If we are fortunate enough to surpass the first goal, our plan is to offer additional runs of the limited edition print books, and possibly to fund future volumes in this series.
GUEST ARTISTS: Joining us to round out the post card and print offerings, we have several talented friends lending a hand.
In random order for size each one awesome, we have commitments from…
Steven Russell Black
James Romberger
Robbi Rodriguez
Paul Azaceta
Kevin Mellon
Nathan Fox
and more TBA.
Please take a moment to share Dracula: Son of the Dragon with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.
Very soon i’ll be announcing
a kickstarter campaign for an upcoming project!
One of the fun aspects of it for me will be designing the hand made limited editions of the books, working with a couple of local artisan binders, Soundless Soliloquy and No Bar Code Press.
So far the broad strokes of the packaging are roughed out. Dimensions page count and cover materials. But I still have a lot of the details to handle.
I also have to come up with the packaging of Dream Life backers of my indiegogo campaign will get to very soon. That one is a trade paperback but I want to make it something visually fun and special. Pretty much have it done in my head but there are always things that come up in execution.
All this came to mind when some friends posted the following set of playful book designs on FB.
More about packaging than binding mind you, they are each a kind of absurdist literal take on the stories they wrap. The oldest is a very rare asbestos bound first edition of Stephen King’s Firestarter. Published by Phantasia Press in 1980 it originally sold for $300 each. 25 of 26 copies exist, with one ironically being lost in a fire. Recently one went on the market for $18,000! It’s quite handsome, and probably safe but still i’d probably keep it bagged just to be sure.
You can still make them out, so the cover is practical as well. Making it function in a commercial context and I suspect will lead browsers even take closer notice in the effort to make out what it says. Not just being an illustration of the subject the story it contains, as a curiosity I think it’s the kind of functional design that scares the money often, but like a whisper entices you to lean in closer for a better look. Congratulations to David for being able to get that one through. It’s the kind of design that you would probably not want on a new book trying to make a mark. But for a classic like 1984, having this version is worth the bragging points probably of getting a new copy.
And the perfect book end to the asbestos bound King book, is this copy of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, with striking paper along its spine and its own match! Kind of asking for it but all the same, witty. From what I can tell this one is just a concept design done by Elizabeth Perez for The Austin Creative Department. But I bet it would sell as a limited run collector’s edition if they took it to market.
All three are fun incarnations of the same kind of design principles. The sort I had planned to apply to the next book. Dracula: son of the dragon.
Thanks to Zack Smith, Vinnie Bartilucci & Hans Curtis for posting these on FB and making me aware of them.
So I’m most faltered and glad to read this paragraph. Making sure the books hold together well as a whole is a priority for me so glad to hear it reads that way.
Though muted and limited in palette, the art demonstrates a level of skill many comic artists can only aspire to. Perspectives are juxtaposed Escher-like adding to the alter-reality quality of each individual story as well as the collection generally. Revolver One feels like a cohesive whole.
Thank you very kindly. It’s funny also to me to realize that at 42 now, when I drew those I was thinking about men my current age often.
“The fictions unfold surreally. “Each day he awakes to another dream-like day,” reveals the narrator of “Pin City”. But these are not dreams of optimism; there is little joy to be found either in the text or the art work. What these stories do offer, however, is a looking glass to contemporary North American society where predominantly men above a certain age are caught up in a kind of hinterland between what they imagine life should offer and what the reality of their existence is.”
Yep that’s a pretty strong theme in that collection. I’d like to think that it can be read even more broadly. Not just about men. But that’s certainly true about most of them. I always saw Helpless as being more about the narrators life but the elderly man in that story is quite central. Misplaced was also co authored with the same writer and we reveled in making the child gender ambiguous and watching to see how the bias falls out. But regardless of that aspect universally I’d agree expectations and anxieties and displacement are the crux of those stories, one of the things I wanted to try to talk about. Nice to see it coming out on the other end. I’m still surprised as the first time the lack of Joy is such a strong impression. She’s not the first to note that. But then I suppose this might be a question of perspective? Hmm, wonder what that says about mine eh? Well we’ll have to make sure there’s some fun stuff in future issues, just not to be totally depressing! I think Misplaced and Wildthings are pretty upbeat though. But check this bit out…
One feature of the layout that really surprised and delighted me, as a reader and aspiring comic artist, is Douglas’ use of tangents to create intense dialogue between the external landscape of the city and the inner or psychological landscape of the protagonist.
What Revolver One demonstrates is that there’s more than one way of looking at something. We can observe society from a distance, objectively, but unless we put ourselves in the position of the protagonist in any of these fictions, we may end up trapped in not so much a dream world as a reality behind glass, unable to escape.
Nice. :)
I have a authors profile on good reads here, if you add me there i’ll send you a discount code for my digital books!
What a novel idea! Yeah I’m close to being done work on Dream Life book one, and have to scare up resources to print books.
I’ll be running a pre-order sale once the last page is inked, in March is the plan. Might try other things too. But don’t want to leave it till then and I am getting kind of broke right now. So lets sell some art and books why don’t we!? Yes lets. Studio is too crowded anyway.
To sweeten the deal, for the next 30 days [ends march 15th] i’m going to offer a free sketch with orders of 40$ or more, something comparable to this one I did at TCAF. Mailed to you either with your art if you buy art, or separately if what you order does not come directly from my home.
Ok, what’s for sale? I’ve added and will continue to add more Art to my store for sale directly from my site, here.
So far it’s mostly old work for hire stuff, with more to come. Will also be putting up pages from more recent books to. If the sticker price is a bit high for you i’m offering to re-ink some by hand, a smaller 9×12 rendering for a lower price too.
And I’m totally open to doing original commissions, from your basic convention sketch to things more involved. So those of you paying attention, if you commission a 50$ conventions sketch from me? you’ll get two! Or I should say a second smaller one too! Deal eh?
I’ve also got an eBay auction going right now, to sell off a 22 page lot of camera ready art from my unpublished ’95 Ghostrider 2099 story with Warren Ellis, “Horrorshow”. This is not the original art I did, but stats of the pages with the lettering pasted on them. The only real physical copy of the full story in existence. Individually not worth much I think but as a set I thought of value to a collector? Hope so anyway. Check it out and consider bidding here. The cover art from that [seen top left of this post] is on sale in my store here too by the way.
Also i’m still offer a 30% discount if you order 3 or more copies. Revolver is not yet in a lot of stores, you can get it at a few, and order it from Amazon. But bulk ordering from me is the cheapest way [free shipping, and 30% off] and it’s a very direct way to support and help promote my work. Convince two friends or more to pitch in and order the book! Make it four friends and you’ll spend enough to get a free sketch too!
FYI Revolver Two is running late but soon to be launched.
And last but hardly least, I’ve also just added a new color extended digital edition of my best selling 2007 graphic novel with Jim Munroe, Therefore Repent! Unlike any past digital version we released, this one has the pages tinted in the same kind of dark blue as the printed books. I’ve also added some new back mater consisting of 18 pages of rough layout art, design sketches, notes, and two new sections of script that was cut. You won’t find this extended digital version anywhere else for now. Just here! Price is $3.50, available In CBR or PDF, with no DRM.
Cheers, hope you see something that you like and help me get Dream Life published by buying some of my past art or books.
best – max
Hah, that would be just my luck, as i’m finally getting half a hang of promoting myself publishing ventures at something approaching the pace it seems to take to get anyone to take your seriously online or noticed in the torrents of updates, the game would go and change from under my feet.
Being buddhistly inclined I liked a lot of what he had to say about applying mindfulness to your work in the digital sphere. I do try to do just that as much as my mind will allow. Also think I spotted some impracticalities too. Share Jim’s concern about the narrowing of focus and echo chamber effect [something he mentioned in passing in the interview].
Over time I do think they count more. But when you’re still one of many, and growing numbers of creators trying to raise awareness of our work, and have as eclectic a reader base it seems I have, I’m not sure how much liberty I have to choose to overly narrow band broadcast. I feel like on the edges of your media domain you need to have fairly fast moving streams to match the pace of the rest of the web, to draw in readers to your core presentation. I don’t post on the blog here rapidly. No way I could keep up with a even once daily rate that Warren thinks of as a lower gear, while maintaining a good level of quality of content, and keep on top of my artwork. Beyond the usual challenges of content creation being dyslexic makes the process of writing and proofing laborious.
But Facebook, mypages, and twitter, G+ to a degree too, I can post small bits of thought or just promote other people’s stuff – something I agree with Dean Haspiel about being a important and valuable role to play, not just as being a community builder but also being someone anyone cares to pay attention too as well. Rather than someone who only talks about themselves?
I suspect some aspects of the slow web Warren and Jeffrey talk about is in part the privileged cruising gear of those who’ve established themselves. For those that describes It makes a lot of sense to economize your efforts.
At this point I follow the feed-back, post more where I find I get responses and less where I don’t.
Never was all in for twitter, it’s always been a semi-automated branch of my blogs. Don’t have a phone attached to my hip so it was never practical for me and too much of a distraction from the drawing table.
For the moment I get far more attention to my work on Facebook than anywhere else. My computer is seldom far from me so when I brake to pace around, grab a coffee, or set up a show to half watch, I often check in and poke around, like or share something, post a bit of work i’m in the midst of.
I tried promoting a couple of posts on Facebook recently connected with RevolveЯ. They got a lot more views but I remain unconvinced if it helped all that much. I did notice that you have to watch it with that, need to look closely at how the options are laid out for you when you set up a promoted post. Seems like a default was to keep promoting and charging after the budget I had set was spent. Not sure what to make of that but I was not pleased to find I was getting charged again without first being asked. As is too often the case it feels like communicating is not FBs strong suit. Incidentally it’s been amusing to watch as twice as many people who’ve added me as a contact in the past 6 months, did so in the last week on Flickr post instagram TOS fiasco. All good, welcome to all. I was never on instagram so works for me.
Speaking of attention…
Having a hard time getting some key comics news sites to pick up my press for RevolveЯ. Others have, but a few of the key players are being tough nuts to crack. Another round of press needs to be done, hoping I can get more traction in the new year. Wondering if I rubbed some the wrong way along the line or something? For sure not really being part of the convention circuit has not helped. Last show I did was TCAF, and that just as a civilian. Ran into one former editor I once worked with who now blogs, it was kind of awkward, as is to happen at these hectic things, but has not replied to an email since?
Be nice to go to more shows and have more fluid relations with the comics diaspora at large, have a chance to build solid friendships in person. But my lack of funds aside, when am I supposed to make time for that and still draw my books, and do all the other shit we have to do ourselves these days eh? Would love to, but we have to have a successful book first. For that we need the book we have to get coverage so people know it’s there to order or buy. A dog and tail game.
Best is if the word gets out more virally, and becomes something the diaspora can’t ignore. If you’re reading this, do us a favor and check out the book if you have not already, mention it to a few someones, share it blog it and if you’d like to review it contact me about that, be glad to oblige. I have lots of visitors and followers these days but outside a core group not enough sharing what they find to get that fantastic fractal spreading pattern going yet. Needs more cowbell!
On the other hand and not to seem to only gripe, I have had some nice windfalls!
Making it a more entertaining experience than planned I got nailed by the flu about 6 hours before the interview, vomiting all over the place very suddenly and sending my poor Ange into a cleaning frenzy. Managed to clear out the pipes and get it together to do it all over the phone, thanks to some nice editing, I even sound totally coherent.
So that’s me for the year probably. Couple more retailers on board and some new distribution channels about to come online for RevolveЯ. I’m running behind on RevolveЯ Two right now due to last minute editorial decisions on my part, and the feeling like the slow moving soft launch is progressing well, but has not reached the sweet spot for the next Minimum Effective Dose. The next book dropping and it’s associated press releases, to help crank the series forward. Taking the time to color a story and add another to make it all that much cooler, less ignorable, and put it out in January instead of this month as I had planned originally.
Keep your eyes open for a kickstarter project from me and Mark Sable too in the new year.
As work on Dream Life book one gets done i’ll be jumping directly onto a story we have planned.
So as you know if you frequent the site, i’m self publishing RevolveЯ. Including distributing directly to any retailers that will do business with me. Contact me if you own or buy for a comics specialty store, book shop, group, club, or library about getting wholesale discounts ranging from 30% to 50%.
Strange Adventures, three locations. Dartmouth, Halifax & Fredericton!
Three cities in one go! It was a happy thing when the first orders for a retailer came in, and it was for three shops at once!
I’m not sure if RevolveЯ will be at all three locations, but you can ask to reserve yours today.
I’ve heard a lot about this small chain of east coast shops. Sometimes hosts of comic jams and 24hr comics events, signings, and often quick to back canuck talents! Full disclosure; Calum is a backer in my successful Indiegogo drive for dream life.
I know for my friends i’n the comics game over the years, they have backed a lot of great Indie books.
Run by owner operator Calum Johnston they seem like really lively places. And I love the look of the Sackville shop. Look for the shots from Kate Beaton’s appearance, totally the kind of place i loved to be taken as a kid.
Another part of the world I’ve never been, that now I have a good excuse to try to get to! Their copies are estimated to arrive by Dec 17.
Of all the shops that will stock RevolveЯ Quarterly #one for the holidays, In Toronto I’m honored to have it on the shelves of The Beguiling first.
There are a few other shops in my old home town i’d like to have it in as well or course. We want it in ALL the stores! But no shop is quite as close to my hart as the The Beguiling is. Forget that RevolveЯ will be there, if you’ve not yet visited the store, you must. Live out of town? Plan a vacation around it, it’s that good. I could say I’ve been a card carrying member of the shop since a year after it was first opened, if I had not lost my card several moves ago and to another city. :( ~ I still dig around my studio now and then to see if it’s hiding somewhere.
Along with the Silver Snail and Dragon Lady [rip], it was of the holly triumvirate of downtown comic shops that helped make Toronto the comics community it is today.
Peter just did an interview about his tenure as the long time and current owner that’s worth a read, he’s built a fantastic book shop and cultural center out of the indie comic shop he bought off Steve and Sean. And to top it off the comic festival they host, TCAF, has become a defining event for the burgeoning literary comics industry in the region.
Their copies are estimated to arrive by Dec 17, so as if you needed an excuse to hang out there, drop by in the days after that for sure, and ask for RevolveЯ by name.
Say hi to the staff for me too, tell them I sent you!
A 5 year old retro themed lounge and hang out style comic and gaming shop with what looks like from the photos a sizable crowd of regulars! A lot of gaming events and comics gatherings, they host 24hr comics days every year. They filled out a Comic Retailers Store Questionnaire for the The Joe Shuster Awards blog in 2010.
Looks like the book will find a tight and large audience there, the shop is dedicated to a strong Indie presence and in walking distance of 2 universities and 4 high schools, kid friendly and & a balanced customer base.
I hope they dig RevolveЯ One and future issues, Kingston is in the great lakes transit corridor, a place I could affordably do appearances. If it seems workable schedule wise i’m thinking next September would be a good time for the first tour for RevolveЯ & Dream Life.
Mission Comics and Art will own the bragging rights to be the first American comic shop to stock RevolveЯ Quarterly!
The place is very cool looking inside, like a TARDIS, a great sprawling gallery and book store off of an unassuming shop front in the hart of SF’s famous Mission district.
For sure if I manage put together a tour in 2013 it’ll be top of my list of places to stop!
There’s a nice write up about them here, and a flickr set showing off events and highlights like their Graphic Novel Rental Library! I’ve poached photos from there for this post.
Their mission statement describes it thus “Combine a comic book shop with an art gallery in a fresh, exciting way drawing on the unique strengths of the Mission District, its diversity, and eclectic and energetic art community.” More here. The owner Leef sounds to have grown up in the same kind of counter culture environment as i did, look forward to meeting him some day.
Their copies are estimated to arrive by Dec 13, though you hardly need the excuse of my book to check this place out I think.
They are a discount re-seller of amazon’s. To be honest i get the least from sales from this site. I make more if you get my book digitally. But at $7.39 CDN I want to get my comics in your hands so hey, this totally will save you some money.
Even with shipping these comics are cheaper than the $15 suggested cover price. Costing it out with standard shipping to Canada I got a price under 14 bucks. For americans it’ll be cheaper still. Go for it with my blessings, go for it hard.
Starting to get
the book
in book stores.
I live in Montreal so lowest hanging fruit:
Took a walk on the first snowy day of the year to visit and stock, two local shops with copies of RevolveЯ One.
I’ll visit more in town but these are the first to stock RevolveЯ Quarterly! Because browsing in shops is always more fun than ordering online!
Chris‘Librairie D&Q, and the family gallery/curiosity shop of my old jam mate Billy, Monastiraki.
Been busy with prepping for Expozine, didn’t get much of any drawing done the last 4 days.
I always find exhibiting a challenge, it’s fun but it’s also disruptive to my work routine so keeping up a proper apperance schedule and also getting the work done tend to compete. At least with Expozine it was right in town.
The great part of going to shows is seeing everyone. The vast majority of my friends are other artists and publishers, but mostly I only see them at events. This year’s Expozine was sluggish for sales, for me but a few others i talked to said it seemed to be to them too. I moved a good number of prints but not that many books.
Here’s a few photos from the event, a pan around the room before the doors opened on day one, and one of me with Michel Rabagliati & Nina Bunjevac, at the Conundrum table where i was slumming day one.
I picked up a few cool things. My Life as a Foot by my neighbour Richard Suicide is something i’ve been wanting for a while and it was on sale at the Conundrum table so i snapped up one myself just before they sold out. The book is a collection of translated short stories that were published in a variety of places in french. As far as i’m aware it’s his only English language book so far.
Kirsten McCrea presented a new little chap book of her work called DAN-D-NOSER published by Paper Pusher. Need to read it cover to cover properly but in the back the about explains that a DAN-D-NOSER is a taxidermy tool, and the book is a playful rift on masculinity exploring the overlap between dandys and taxidermy? Should be interesting. Also always like talking with JP King, the very enthusiastic pusher behind Paper Pusher. Will have to think of a project to propose to him some time.
We’ve talked online a little but finally met in person the man behind Taddle Creek finally as well, Conan Tobias. I just got a proper subscription for the magazine and picked up a couple back issues from him at the show. Would be fun to do something for the magazine one of these days. Also talked with the folks at Matrix a bit, likewise another publication i’d like to participate in at some point. And spotted a new publication i’m going to take a closser look at and submit something probably, Circéa Publishing. They had a very sexy over-sized first issue on display for the show.
Would have liked to pick up a lot more but my own lack of sales pretty much meant I was limited. Probably could have traded for more but didn’t think to do that till late on day two.
OK, so it’s back to work for me. Have some illustration to do for videos, and lots of penciling left of Dream Life. Here’s a few of the last 10 I got done, have 32 more to do in the next week and a bit to meet the schedule goal for this month.
Was invited to write up some books for Robot 6′s regular piece, “What Are You Reading?”.
Decided to cover some books by friends that I had just read for awards or had been picking through over the summer. I don’t apologize for being biased.
Multi-award winning Art and Adaptation by Royal Academy heavyweight Ramón Pérez.
Award winning packaging by Eric Skillman.
Archaia
Ramón’s a friend, and it’s been inspiring to watch him become deservedly highly sought after. It may be laying it on a little thick calling this book one for the ages, but I just did. I will have no choice but to cop to being bias. But I’m confident you will agree.
A year or so ago it was while loitering around the Toronto studio he shares with the rest of the Academy gang that I first saw pages from this rather brazenly epic realization of a reputedly esoteric rich early script, by one of my all time heroes. The Muppet Man. Mr Fraggle. When he said what the spreads he was inking were for, I think I cursed under my breath for an extended period.
You could already see this was a gorgeous project. Leaning over Ramón’s shoulder when he’s working tends to be routinely rewarding, but all the more so in this case.
Reading the book myself this summer finally was an almost-unadulterated pleasure. I was initially thrown by the strange lettering phenomenon associated with old Melrose Mernly [his friends call him Sven]. But after it reoccurred a couple of times I got it, and recognized it for the bit of fun inventive surrealism it is, an echo of Henson’s own penchant for psychedelic audio phenomenon.
This book is filled with playful formalistic inventions that for me put it on par with Asterios Polyp and the like. I think many are fairly novel, but despite and often because of it, all still a fabulously smoothly reading, rolling, kinetic comic.
A race meant to take 10 minutes to Eagle Mountain takes a wrong turn into a maylay of chaos.
The large wordless sections can be pored over, but I encourage you to read it all at least once, in only the time it takes to get the story point and move on.
The ease at which you can register what has been drawn narrative wise is remarkable. Storytelling as sharp as you will find here, for a story so surreal is an impressive accomplishment. Ramon makes it look easy. I also happen to know it was completed in an impressively short time, too.
This is a jealousy inducing book. His discipline is always impressive, and it’s on full display here. What it brings to a quite recognizably worthy bit of the Henson legacy is worth every cent and minute.
Jimmy Beaulieu is the founder of Quebec publishing house Mécanique Générale, and an autobiographical cartoonist with a penchant for romantic angst. This was how I first encountered him.
I think it was at a Comic Jam hosted by Rupert Bottenberg, or a BD festival perhaps. He’s an extremely likable geeky guy who loves pop music, pop art and sexy ladies unabashedly. A fastidious editor and designer and easy maker of many friends.
He and a group of said friends were publishing great inventive self-published B&W comics when I first moved to Montreal. Several were even wordless so I could enjoy them without issue. I really loved checking out their latest stuff, and was always frustrated by my hopelessly poor language skills when it came to reading Jimmy’s auto bio work.
BDANG is a sub imprint of Conundrum Press, a small but prolific Canadian publishing house. Under it publisher and author Andy Brown is translating and publishing several French books
In 2010 one of them was the collection and translation of two of Jimmy’s extended works, Quelques Pelures and Le Moral des Troupes [winner of the 2005 Prix de l'Espoir Québécois], They document his life between the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. Additional pages were added to the collection, and Jimmy played with parts of the text of the second part to try to round out the story and smooth out his sophomore spots.
I’ve read it in fits, it’s got scope! Coming in at an impressive 250 pages of comics. It’s hard to read in a sitting, but perfect I think for browsing through on transit or keeping by the throne.
Jimmy adopted early an easy, fast, light-handed style of art, well-suited to a personal journal comic. It evolves visibly over the body of work, going from pleasantly naive to deceptively skillful. He often apologizes for his drawing, but I find it enjoyably expressive and his girls are adorable! Being so often the subject of his attention, this pays off for an appreciative reader. He captures people’s pantomime well. The tones and textures lend themselves to a gauzy soft focused nostalgic story about the coming of age of a shy cartoonist from Quebec City who slowly falls in love with Montreal, and moons over hot cupid-like young mothers and full-figured redheads.
There are many small gems, like one of the short, newer epilogues to act one. An entry titled ‘rocket man’ where Jim shares an internal monologue about waiting for his employer at a book fair in Autumn of 2000. Withdrawing from caffeine and suffering a night of poor sleep, on a day he marks as his 2977th of celibacy! Oh dear. He talks about the city landscape while imagining Mecha Kaiju destroying a Montreal industrial park, then that the underwear models on the billboards are there to distract him from the urban destruction. It’s subtle in execution and quite poignant.
I think one great target audience for this collection would be young adult and romance readers looking for sprawling, ranting, romantic, sometimes silly stories of transplantation. Finding love in lots of the wrong places, but finally one right. Feeling inadequate. Facing death for the first time. Raging over pop culture and ranting about popular culture. And being in love with the making of comics. I also know for a fact at least one American comics editor has confessed to having used this book to seduce a girlfriend.
Jimmy has matured a lot since this early work. You’ll find a lovely recent example of his work in Carré Rouge, a romantic fictional story set around the recent protests in Montreal, published in multiple languages online.
Rupert and I first met at a comics jam in Montreal in the ‘90s when i worked at Marvel and was chafing at constraints. Another cartoonist friend and I were talking during a NY convention, and he gave me a zine of Rupert’s, saying I should meet him. This is also when I first heard about Comic Jams, spectacular incarnations of which Rupert hosted in a svengali fashion at the time.
You may have noticed a trend in my book selections? Yes, well, it’s what I’ve been reading of late. Catching up on the work of many friends.
The title Traumstadtdenken is a German neologism, meaning “Dream-City-Thinking.” A reference to a painting by Paul Klee, “Traumstadt,” that had a significant impact on Rupert.
The book is a collection of comix, drawings and odds ’n’ ends spanning 10 years stitched together with bits of connective symbolically narrative sequences. My one complaint is that the packaging of the book seems to have been been poorly proofed, with the margin’s feeling too close cropped on some pages for my comfort.
It’s informative to know he also paints highly designed abstract art, collects and fabricates pop art sculptures and toys, and recently has been globe-hopping as a founding member of the breakout art collective EN MASSE which i’ve had the honor of being a guest member of.
Whatever he is drawing on–in a comic, on a wall or canvas–his rendering is always superbly skilled and highly graphically attractive. This book is filled with perfect cartoony chiaroscuro pages that often invite you to project your own meaning or interpretations. Rupert has always been a fan of wordless art that can be read by anyone. Several sequences here are examples of that. He provides rich symbolic visuals that suggest lots of ideas, and are just really fun to look at. There is no attempt to present an over-arching story here, page numbers are consciously dropped. There are times where narrative is very strong, a story can be found with ease. Is even clearly intended. But where words appear, it’s usually to cloud the issue and add new silly twists to things.
When I first saw his work I fell in love with his lines. We’ve shared an appreciation for improvisational doodling and abstraction. I hope more people can discover his work as I have. This collection is an excellent place to start.
You should also check out his webcomic with author Claude Lalumière, Lost Myths.
I don’t get asked to do it as often as i like,
so i’m going to talk about book design a bit now and then…
Don’t get me wrong,
I like both of these.
But still…
Was going to post about Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis on my personal Facebook profile this morning, a fascinating and scary recently diagnosed illness. But then noticed this looking up details and thought it a good opportunity to mention something i’ve observed before.
This is a great example of a lack of innovation in book design, and as a designer the value adopting habits to help both your work, and the items you are designing stand out.
So you have two titles, of very similar wording, in this case about two very different things.
One was just released November 13, 2012. One published in 2010. It seems to me a basic best practice would be to research the tittle, and see if something like it exists already, and not repeat any design notes if one does, if you can help it. Make sure one book is distinct from the other with a similar tittle? So, no red band with B&W images for Susannah should have been a no brainer…ahem. Sorry.
I suspect that didn’t happen here. Not identical of course, but so close. A bit too close branding wise and so easy to avoid with a simple google search on the part of whomever was putting the packaging together for Susannah Cahalan’s book.
Given the older book also owns the URL one would likely look up for promoting Susannah’s new book, it’s hard to imagine you would not have seen this coming either, as a publisher or author or someone on the decision making chain. So I have to wonder if it was a case of just not caring. Or maybe they did, and decided to try to get a lift from people looking for a popular self help book? I don’t know but it gives me an excuse to mention; you get a commission to do a cover? Search the title and subject and be aware of what has gone before.
Something to think about the next time you’re asked to work on a job.
Ok, with that, i did just listen to Susannah talk about her ordeal, and it’s fascinating stuff, possibly the origins of many cases believed to have been possession in the past. Listen to her talk about it here and try not to get paranoid the next time your hand feels numb.
Just because a thing has not been explained, does not mean it never will be. As a skeptic that was one of the things I came away thinking about after listening to this. A newly named disease humans have probably suffered from since there were humans, and before most likely. Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. In the past too many were probably diagnosed as mad, or possessed. 80+% of known cases have been women, and before 2002 no one new about it at all.
And last, I like design so much, I publish my own comic to get an excuse to do it.
Ok, maybe an exaggeration, might be the comics i’m more hyped about.
But it is one of the perks of putting out my own books…
Revolver Quarterly Vol.1 is a collection of seven short stories, assorted words and pictures, exploring diverse themes of mortality, belonging, and identity. By Salgood Sam, including collaborations with John O'Brien, A.J. Duric, & The MMCJ. ~ 52 pages, 8" x 10", at 150 dpi, 8" x 10". PDF & CBR copies bundled in a 60.6 mb zip file. No DRM. ~ The original B&W edition of the book earned Salgood a 'Best Emerging Talent' nomination in the 2005 Doug Wright Awards! More Info »
¢99: 28 pages, 7″ x 10″, 200 dpi . PDF & CBR copies bundled in a 50.5 mb zip file. No DRM. ~ Feature story is Honolulu Lorie’s Lava Love Lounge and Poodle Emporium! Also found within, illustrations, a cut scene from my graphic novel Dream Life. Some Comic Jam pages & an article about my personal history with Jams. More Info »
I first attempted to launch an early iteration of RevolveЯ in 2004.
It was sold at Expozine and TCAF and a few cool comic shops. A handmade zine with screen printed covers. Nice little book if I say so myself & It got lots of positive attention. But even with a well received proof of concept I was unable at the time to get the publishers I approached to take it on and was too swamped to distribute and publish it myself. Work and life kept me busy and RevolveЯ stalled. It did not help that a lot of the talk these days is how the personal anthology comic is dead. But after reading that TCJ post this past year, I became even more determined to make my book a reality. A little wiser [or not] and with far far better tools at my disposal, I’ve relaunched it. So here’s what i’m doing.
A Quarterly comics anthology. All stories will be written or drawn by me.
A focused central venue to publish in print and digital formats, whatever I’m working on at the moment.
That’s what RevolveЯ will be. New issues available Quarterly, 32-64 pages.
Order RevolveЯ One from AmazonCreateSpace [ i get the best royalty from this link by the way ], this site directly through me, and in finer participating bookstores and specialty shops.
Suggested cover price between $10 and $15, depending on the issues page count. Digital!: I’m offering directly from my site, high quality PDF & CBR DRM free digital Editions for between$2.50 & $2 ¢99!
If you would like your local comic shop to stock it please let them know about RevolveЯ! I’ll have a printable ordering coupon for them soon, that you can download and present to help make that happen yourself! I also plan to try to get it in local libraries. If you are a librarian, contact me about procuring a deeply discounted wholesale order for your collection! I very much believe Libraries are the perfect setting for RevolveЯ, and plan to make it extra easy them to stock it.
Digital Subscriptions will be forthcoming, and print ones available in time as well, once i’ve delivered on more than one issue.
4.5/5 : “RevolveЯ 1 is a compact package … packed with 52 pages of stories, sketches and a thoughtful text piece that closes out the issue. I was intrigued from the cover alone, a black and gold image of a cityscape that wraps around to the back cover, where someone is seen drowning in the immensity of it all.”
“Douglas’s drawings of buildings are magnificent things, and thankfully much on display throughout the issue, although not to the detriment of the storytelling. The cartoonist clearly has spent a lot of time in a city environment and has been hugely successful in translating what the weight of all that architecture feels like when pressing down on the people below — heavy, imposing, all-dominating and yet strangely liberating in its majesty. The two-page spread that occupies pages 8-9, of a character entering a diner on the first floor of a large building, is the most impressive drawing in the issue, and one of the most well-realized images I’ve seen in a comic this year.”
“Throughout this issue, you can feel Max Douglas’s joy in experimenting with line, tone and page design, in a way that is simpatico with other big names of the small press like Tomer Hanuka or Farel Dalrymple. This is the kind of comics I unashamedly love, dense work by a creator following his vision and sharing the journey with his readers. The paper stock, cover design and overall production values show Douglas cares deeply about his work and how it is presented, and it’s work worth caring about. RevolveЯ 1 is one of the best titles to debut this year, and it could very well change how you think about comics.”
“All the mini stories are told from the perspective of lonely characters reflecting on their place in the world. … Max is clearly someone who is passionate about what he does, and is one of those people who tries to blur the lines between comics and literature … The artwork is wonderful and has a lively loose feel to it that makes it easy to miss how well planned and creative the layout of the panels are. RevolveЯ is a refreshing change of pace from the usual batch of men in tights and frogs with boners.”
” … the layouts in RevolveЯ are consistently thrilling, playing with the frames, the gutter, the entire page. They pull the reader on swoops that S down a page, or simulate the vertigo of a big city by distending the horizon or dangling skyscrapers from above. Here is a pro exalting in his craft.”
Guy Leshinski in a Eye magazine review [a now defunct Toronto free weekly]
Sequential tectonic shift: RevolveЯ by salgood sam
“Salgood’s drifting vision has an incredible sense of space and freedom. Your eye moves across the page continuously, an angel floating through worlds. Usually the dynamic movement of the images themselves direct your vision, like little signposts that bounce you around the worlds Sam has created. The narratives sometimes unmoor themselves from everyday reality, moving into poetic or existentialist territory, but never loses its grounding in very concrete images. RevolveЯ plays with how we perceive things, and where we anchor ourselves. This is reflected in the way panels bleed into other panels, if there are panels at all. It suggests that sometimes the dream world or the worlds we create in our narratives appear realer than our actual lives, that the membrane between the world we live and the worlds we see ourselves living in is very thin.”
Revolver Quarterly Vol.1 is a collection of seven short stories, assorted words and pictures, exploring diverse themes of mortality, belonging, and identity. By Salgood Sam, including collaborations with John O'Brien, A.J. Duric, & The MMCJ. ~ 52 pages, 8" x 10", at 150 dpi, 8" x 10". PDF & CBR copies bundled in a 60.6 mb zip file. No DRM. ~ The original B&W edition of the book earned Salgood a 'Best Emerging Talent' nomination in the 2005 Doug Wright Awards! More Info »
¢99: 28 pages, 7″ x 10″, 200 dpi . PDF & CBR copies bundled in a 50.5 mb zip file. No DRM. ~ Feature story is Honolulu Lorie’s Lava Love Lounge and Poodle Emporium! Also found within, illustrations, a cut scene from my graphic novel Dream Life. Some Comic Jam pages & an article about my personal history with Jams. More Info »
Was recently contacted a few times about it, thought I’d post an update on it broadly. I wish I had a spare body to run from a duplexed brain, but no luck. So MOSTLY I’ll not be going to things this year.
Multi-award winning Art and Adaptation by Royal Academy heavyweight 
