CulturePOP - press

My webcomic, CulturePOP got some love this week from two excellent, which I happen to read often

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Thanks for continuing to follow my experimental webomic, CulturePOP: "Photocomix Profiles of Real-Life Characters."
This week's edition, Super Sucklord: Culture Jamming, tells the tale of a man who has figured how to mix his love of Star Wars and hip-hop culture to make a statement.
See it HERE.

Comments welcome and appreciated, as always. Hope you enjoy it!

Graphic NYC - Site Update

Mike Mignola: 4 Color Portrait - a new series of of artist portraits which marry the creators with their work. First up, Mike Mignola.

Also, please have a look at two text pieces I wrote - a Q&A with the publisher/editor of Royal Flush Magazine, and a review of Dan Clowes' new book, Wilson-

For the Love of Comics #12: Josh Bernstein's Royal Flush

Graphically Speaking: Wilson

CulturePOP - Photocomix Profiles of Real-Life Characters on ACT-I-VATE.com

Thank you all for continuing to follow my experimental webomic, CulturePOP: "Photocomix Profiles of Real-Life Characters."
This week's edition, Melisa Winitzky: Rooftop Yoga, tells the tale of a young woman who finds inner-peace high above the streets of Manhattan.
See it HERE.

Comments welcome and appreciated, as always. Hope you enjoy it!

The Hypothetical Library

Designer extraordinaire Charlie Orr's Hypothetical Library has been a project of interest to me since it's inception earlier this year.

"The idea behind the blog was to create an opportunity for a part-time book cover designer to collaborate, with a wide range of amazing, contemporary writers on a project outside of their normal body of work," Orr says in his blog's intro. "The catch is that these books will never really exist." He elaborates - "I ask each writer to provide flap copy for a book that they haven’t, won’t, but in theory could, write, and then I design a cover for it."

This week's installment show readers the hypothetical cover for author Neil Gaiman's If You Read This Book The World Will End. When I heard this concept I was excited to work with Charlie on this project.

This week's entry has taken several months of planning, as Orr's concept required the involvement of: a sculptor/metal artist, digital print house, a locksmith, an audio engineer, a voice artist, and an html 5 programmer, (for an audio book, and an e-book cover which will be posted later in the week) a photographer, (me) and Gaiman himself.

Other authors who's recently received the hypothetical treatment from Orr include; Colum McCann, David Lehman, Lydia Millet and Kierán Suckling, Thomas Kelly, Brian Evenson,and cartoonists Gabrielle Bell and Nick Abadzis.

Check out the Hypothetical Library every week for more creative book covers to book which will never exist. Though, I hear Mr. Gaiman mentioned that he may want to actually write If You Read This Book The World Will End someday.

Laura Lee Gulledge

Laura Lee Gulledge is a newcomer to the comics scene, but she's already working on a YA graphic novel for Abrams called, Page By Paige, scheduled for release in Spring 2011.

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The latest installment of my webcomic, CulturePOP - "Photocomix Profiles of Real-Life Characters" features Clark Gayton in "My Sousaphone."
See it HERE.
Comments welcome and appreciated, as always.

Graphic Novelists - Day 61

Last month at the MoCCA Fest here in NYC, I had the honor of photographing Jaime Hernandez. Jaime, along with his brother Gilbert, form Los Bros. Hernandez, creators of the super influential Love and Rockets series.
Learn more about Jaime Hernandez by reading the GRAPHIC NYC Profile on him.

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This week's edition, John D'Aponte: The Family 'Stache, tells the tale of a man attempting to connect with his family history through his moustache.
See it HERE.
Comments welcome and appreciated. Hope you enjoy it!