Here’s some pretty exciting news and, if you can, we need you to vote now! The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award, abbreviated to Rondo Award or Rondo, is a fan-based award where the public votes for a variety of individuals, entities, and media nominated in the horror genre. The award has been likened to a “Horror Oscar,” and is considered a “coveted” prize in the horror community! Delayed by the Year of the Pandemic, here — finally! — is this […]
Hey Everybody, please be sure to check out the April 2021 Issue of Kirkus Reviews Magazine because SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS (Pantheon) Just Got It’s First Book Review!! Another option is to just click this LINK & you can read it before it hits the newsstands… Just CLICK HERE! This is a brand new Graphic Novel by Kristen Radtke & will be released by Pantheon Books on July 6th, 2021. ————————————————————————————————————
Here’s the cover for LON CHANEY SPEAKS (Pantheon) by Pat Dorian. The story is all about the life of the legendary silent-film actor Lon Chaney (the original Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame), as imagined by an artist whose work recalls the style and skill of early-era New Yorker Cartoonists. From the artist: “‘No one will ever love me!’ I believe it was this near-universal fear that makes Lon Chaney’s characters continue to resonate with us today. On their surface, […]
As a part of the “Book Your Summer” Program over at Penguin Random House, Graphic designer and editor Chip Kidd gets the inside story from some of our favorite graphic novelists: Pat Dorian (Lon Chaney Speaks), Reza Farazmand (City Monster), Liana Finck (Excuse Me), Deena Mohamed (Shubeik Lubeik), Tom Scioli (Jack Kirby), and David F. Walker (The Life of Frederick Douglass). If a picture is worth a thousand words, the amazing blends of art and storytelling crafted by these talented […]
In this recent episode of the DESIGN MATTERS Podcast the Host, Debbie Millman, talks to Designer Chip Kidd and his good friend, the Graphic Novelist Chris Ware. They discuss their friendship, their working relationship, the state of Graphic novels & then Chris goes into depth about his new book, RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon 2019). Check it out! ————————————————————————————————————
Over on YouTube there’s a guy named Dan Shahin who has a show called COMIC BOOK NEWS. He covers a lot of different aspects of the comic book world. In this video here, he does a Book Review on RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon 2019) by Chris Ware. Check it out! ————————————————————————————————————
This post sort of has 2 parts to it that are both associated with Chris Ware. One, if you visit the Official NPR website you can read an article by Etelka Lehoczky. It’s basically an interview in a nice easy to read transcript-style. Here’s a LINK to the NPR Website if you’d like to read the article! Then, TWO, here’s a recent NPR A1 Podcast interview with Chris Ware where he talks about his new book, RUSTY BROWN (2019, Pantheon). […]
From “New Yorker” magazine covers to serialized comic strips to multi-item story boxes, graphic novelist Chris Ware can draw it all. His new work, “Rusty Brown,” is nearly 400 hundred pages, with Easter eggs and outtakes on the cover and dust jacket. It tells not one story, but several, all interconnected. He worked on it off and on for 19 years, and it is only volume one. Even with such massive projects, Ware, 51, told amNewYork that he still works […]
Here’s some pretty amazing news we knew we had to share. Chris Ware’s new book, RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon), has been reviewed by the New York Times. This is seriously a big deal!! Here’s a LINK to check it out, just CLICK HERE! ————————————————————————————————————
With the publication of RUSTY BROWN (Pantheon), Chris Ware joins the Virtual Memories Show Podcast to talk about how he and his art changed over the 18 (on-and-off) years since he began the project. We talk about the nature of memory, the experience of time, and the purpose of empathy (or empathy as the purpose of human life). We get into art and its role in organizing consciousness, the give-and-take of self-doubt, his impact on comics and other cartoonists, the […]