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Breaking up is hard to do.
Rough, unedited page from Eel Mansions 2, in progress.
Other stuff in the mix these days
Work-in-progress from Eel Mansions 2
Come to Winona tonight and see Murder Shoes play a slew of new songs at the Mid West Music Fest!
SANDY SAYS
I grabbed a random cobra and headed to the beach. Sheila was there, looking quite asparagus in a 1970's one-piece. I trip on a castle and taste earth, only it's not as tasty as usual. A cell phone rings x1000 and a dolphin burps cured meats. The wind blows the meats east.
I lay the cobra on a towel and it coils around some lotion.
"Get em'!" I'd say.
The cobra closes its eyes and goes into r.e.m. sleep. On the water ahead of us, two paunchy men discuss a pending divorce settlement via sailboat. Their fingers dusted with remnants of heavily flavored nacho asbestos. Sheila turns to me and smiles. It seems to extend all the way around her head and I become jealous.
"I thought we'd go out tonight and disco dance."
That's rather random. Hell, I haven't disco danced since 1980. I was five.
"Pencil me down for eight o' clock" I say.
I killed her smile with my surplus joke. What's wrong with this picture?
Three men with rusty rifles and worn out military gear tell us to evacuate the beach. My cobra wakes up.
"Why do we have to go?" Sheila asks.
"A hydrofoil washed up on the shore. It looks hurt. We're gonna nurse it back to health".
A fourth "soldier" saunters up carrying a cooler, wearing gaudy neon shades.
(Short story from I Can Count To Infinity, a work in progress. More stories like this via my current book Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter
Drawing from my work in progress, I Can Count To Infinity. My current book, Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter, is available via Fantagraphics.
Back at the Kitty with our friends Ego Death, Hollow Boys and Lott! If you didn’t see us at the Icehouse, we have a bunch of new songs for you.
Drawing from my next book in progress, I Can Count To Infinity. Check out my current book of art Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter over at Fantagraphics Books.
Drawing from my next book in progress, I Can Count To Infinity. Currently available: Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter via Fantagraphics Books
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXOFHu72AxI)
Now Available At Murder Shoes Shows-
Murder Shoes guitarist/artist’s new book, Enough Astronaut Blood To Last The Winter, published by Fantagraphics Books. A limited art book spanning 262 pages of inky goodness with an exclusive shows bonus, the complete Murder Shoes Daydreaming album in demo form with hand drawn CD sleeves. Still not sure? Maybe these testimonials will change yr mind:
“One of the things that attracts me to Derek Van Gieson’s work is his ability to evoke a sense of timelessness, while at the same time, a healthy dose of the shock of the new” -Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin, Stray Toasters, The New Mutants)
“There are problems so horrible and so intractable that all one can hope to do is squirt ink at them and curse. Derek understands this.” -Rick Froberg (Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Pitchfork, The Obits)
“This guy inks likes he’s having great sex and hell, maybe that’s his secret.” -Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets)
Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter – A New York artist’s travelogue of stasis
Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter by Derek Van Gieson Fantagraphics Underground 2016, 264 pages, 8 x 10 inches (softcover) $30 Buy a copy at Fantagraphics
Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is a beautiful travelogue of stasis with three covers to choose from. It’s a seemingly disconnected series of images, photographs, and prose-poems that serve as a diary of artist Derek Van Gieson’s New York City experience. Collected in this manner by Fantagraphics Underground, though, they convey a story thick with the weight of being trapped in the expanse of a moment. Here, there is a visceral sense of confinement, and, through Van Gieson’s art, there is both acceptance of the walls and a longing for change.
While not a graphic novel in the traditional sense, Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter is still narrative. The reader understands mood more than movement, but even in this there is still a beginning, middle, and end. So many of Van Gieson’s inky portraits have a surreal sense of disconnect, as much as they convey discontent. His subjects mostly look away, askance, from the viewer, or have their eyes covered completely by hair or by shadow. Many of the photographs are of his subjects caught in the midst of liminal moments, between this and that, indecisive and unsure of how to proceed. And his prose-poems further the sense of unbecoming that suffuses the book as a whole. They are often grounded in the experience of the day-to-day, yet twist out into hypnagogic landscapes and scenarios, as if the “now” only leads to the impossible and the reality of the minute is unfathomable as it stands.
In a way, Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter also serves as a prequel for his wonderfully wild graphic novel Eel Mansions (published by Uncivilized Books). Moments and characters and tones stand here in their nascent beauty awaiting the exploration and heft that Van Gieson gives them in his later work.
What Enough Astronaut Blood to Last the Winter conveys best, though, is the immeasurable talent of Derek Van Gieson to communicate and reveal the emotional truth of the moment. This book is new-form autobiography in which we understand the creator by understanding his creations. It is a diary comic that takes the static moment of the individual experience and casts it into the undulations of the universal “us” to recognize as our own. – Daniel Elkin
January 8, 2016
Some epic kind words for my new Fantagraphics book by writer Daniel Elkin