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#Meanwhile17: if you are going to be a con panel host, make sure it’s in the company of lovely ladies who are cracking company and know a damn sight more than you do (not difficult)... #winnebagograveyard #alisonsampson #sonialeong @meanwhilecgc
I’ll be doing all four days of ECCC this year and have a table at J13. I’m on the same aisle as Raina Telgemeier and just a couple of tables across and along from Noelle Stevenson. I’ll have a big red, blue and black banner I can’t show you as it will have an image from the image book I’ll have just announced on it, and which I’m not supposed to talk about yet. But there’s a triangle, that’s a clue.
There are also have some pretty temporary tattoos connected with that thing, for $5 a sheet, which includes the sword on the image above. So there will be many pretty things for sale, including some prints connected with the above mentioned image book. If its not too busy I’m happy to do portfolio reviews too, and looking and chatting is always free. As ever, there’s free badges for under 10s, too. it will be nice to meet people.
If I’m not at my table, I’ll either be around the floor (I have a blue streak in the front of my hair is another clue), or in a meeting or here:
My schedule is a bit of a work in progress, but here’s a start
(Cleveland and Los Angeles and then..)
Wednesday 06
Image Expo, all day. Announcing, chatting, maybe a bit of signing, and the Spring Formal. I love our book.
Thursday April 07
2- 3pm Joon Industry Women and Genderqueer Mixer. T204
5.00- 5.45pm Signing with Image Comics at the ECCC main signings area
Friday April 08
3.00- 4.00pm Signing the Broken Frontier Anthology at A Wave Blue World’s booth, with is just next to Oni and Image’s booths.
Saturday April 09
1.00- 2.00pm Signing the Broken Frontier Anthology at A Wave Blue World
Sunday April 10
2.00- 3.00pm Signing the Broken Frontier Anthology at A Wave Blue World with the most excellent Steve Orlando (one of my fave people in comics)
3.45- 4.45pm Panel: How to run your career like a business, with Marissa Louise, Alex de Campi, Steve Lieber, Leila del Duca and me. T301
There’s lots of other exciting panels, I’ll add some if I can (who knows how much wifi the road will have), but I’d point out the Women In Comics ones: here’s the release
Leaving for Portland on Monday morning, with Jes.
Monday night: Portland
Tuesday: Wayward Pines
Thursday and Friday: Berkeley (leaving Saturday)
Los Angeles (Venice): the following Tuesday
and then home..
Exciting times :)
I’m taking part in this event at the Cleveland Museum of Art on April 01. It is free and open to the public, and the paper I’m giving is Architecture for Storytelling. If you are in the area, please come along, it will be great to see/ meet you. It is an incredible honor to be asked to be part of this (I think) unprecedented event, and also very exciting to see what the architecture students have been doing/ where this architecture-reaches-out-to-comics conversation goes.
Booking is with the museum. Livestream is at EST, I’m at 1.30pm, Chris Ware is later, it all looks pretty good.
Mad Max: Fury Road Prequel Comics to Arrive in May - DC Comics imprint Vertigo will release an art book and four prequel comics for Mad Max: Fury Road starting this May.
I'm delighted to have a piece in the art book. This is my first work for Vertigo, and I'm super-flattered to be included in this company. Here is the solicit:
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD – INSPIRED ARTISTS DELUXE EDITION HC Art by BILL SIENKIEWICZ, LEE BERMEJO, DAVE JOHNSON, PAUL POPE, DAVID MACK, HOWARD CHAYKIN, NICOLA SCOTT, GABRIELE DELL’OTTO, CLIFF CHIANG, GEORGE PRATT, TOMMY LEE EDWARDS, JOHN PAUL LEON, TEDDY KRISTIANSEN, SIMON BISLEY, GILBERT HERNANDEZ, JAVIER PULIDO, TARA McPHERSON, DECLAN SHALVEY, REBEKAH ISAACS, DAVE McKEAN and many more! With commentary by GEORGE MILLER and the artists On sale MAY 6 • 144 pg, FC, 7.0625” x 10.875”, $24.99 US • MATURE READERS In anticipation of the upcoming blockbuster film Mad Max: Fury Road, 65 of comics’ best artists took to the post-apocalyptic landscape to interpret this gorgeous and desolate world of George Miller’s design. Inspired by images from the film, each of these visionary artists brings their unique style to a double-page spread of part of the world of Mad Max, with commentary from the artists and Miller himself. From breathtaking action sequences to heartbreaking character portraits, Fury Road will be perfectly captured by a one-of-a-kind array of comics legends, side-by-side with some of the most exciting new talent in the industry!
Hey, guys! Just a reminder about this amazing comic from Nathan Edmonson & Alison Sampson. It looks & sounds amazing. Please, pre-order it
By this time, it is possible I've told you about this comic that I've drawn, called Genesis, please bear with me,
The top image here shows part of the interior of the Abercrombie Building, at Oxford Brookes University (first posted by me online here). I worked on this project, and the wider Oxford Brookes University project in my three years at Design Engine, the architects for OBU's new student centre. My role was as project architect for Abercrombie, but I also did a range of things on the new building in the same capacity. The role of a project architect is to facilitate what the team does. I could be doing anything, from presenting our design to the client, to working with the lighting designer (Spiers & Major, who I really like), to planning the work, or making drawings, or commenting on, checking, or publishing other people's work.
There was always a lot of getting up very early to go to site, whether it was this job, or the Greenwich Peninsula/ Millennium Dome, or a school in Peterbrough, Palestra in Southwark, a hospital in Pontefract, or a listed estate in the East End of London, designed by Erno Goldfinger. Lots of projects, lots of work, over.. so long. Late nights, early mornings, cold rooftops (seemingly always in the dead of winter), bacon sandwiches, River Cafe dinners, sometimes not much sleep, and a lot of fun. The thrill of building something new and it taking on a life of it's own.
The whole point of architecture work is that we are a team, and if we want to do a big project, we have to collaborate. A large project can involve thousands of people and even the project architect may not be credited personally, and the reality of this is there are reasons not to be credited personally. Our firms are insured, for example, and we teach young architects to use the pronoun 'our', not 'my', which is both a courtesy to the team and an identification with our company. Who is the insured party, should anything go wrong- which of course never happens.
This is a digression. Our project is our clients project, and when we are done, we hand it to them and they move in and do what they like. They own the work, and we give them the best of our ideas. Our companies own our drawings and designs, and even our notes. We are nameless, and to be honest, this is the right thing.
From that to this. This is my first creator owned project (bar the shorts I've drawn). It is also the first project I have a clear credit for in at least 20 years. Between one thing and another, this is a surprisingly emotional experience. I've tried to bring my design skills to bear in a different way, and it has come out like very distilled architecture work. So a big thank you to everyone has made this possible, from Eric Stephenson at Image, who took it on (and everyone there) and Nathan who initiated it, through to the spreaders-of-the-word, and the comic retailers and booksellers and you, who will hopefully buy a copy somewhere and read it.
Booksellers. Yes- our comic is also a graphic novella and will be available in bookshops. This is amazing. To be able to reach a wider and possibly not-comics-reading-audience is something else. We have an ISBN number, so our book can be ordered from a high street bookshop, or a chain, or anywhere, really. It is ISBN 978-60706-995-9. The price is still $6.99 and it still comes out on April 16th, but now it is much more accessible.
So, if you are a bookstore, or if that is where you get your books, check us out. I can send a preview pdf to bookshops and reviewers (just get in touch and ask me for one). My email address is at the top of my tumblr, on the left.
If you would like to order Genesis from your local bookshop, above is a pre-ordering slip, just fill it in and hand it (or email it, or phone the info) to a retailer and they will know what to do.
>> download the bookstore pre-ordering slip
>> download the comic shop pre-ordering slip
Here is Image's updated press release, with some nice words from Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer of Pretty Deadly (thanks, Kelly Sue!).:
GENESIS, a new graphic novella from Image Comics by Nathan Edmondson (WHO IS JAKE ELLIS, The Punisher, Black Widow) and new comic book artist Alison Sampson (OUTLAW TERRITORY), pairs sweeping visuals with poignant writing in a story that cannot be missed.
GENESIS is a trippy journey of creation and destruction as one man finds himself with the ability to manifest anything by thinking it—only to learn that with seemingly unlimited power comes unstoppable terror.
"Genesis was a fun opportunity to let storytelling and art run wild with the idea of creativity itself—of the boundlessness of imagination and the inevitable vertigo that comes from the unlimited ability to manifest anything into being," said writer Edmondson.
Artist Sampson has a twenty-five year background in architecture that she draws on for her art, using the structure of the page and settings to set a tone as much as characters’ expressions. “I think communicating emotion is the most important thing in comics,” she said in an interview with Comics Bulletin. “Layouts were drawn at print size so I could think about the looks on people's faces and lay down some structure to the page, and I drew as much as I could from life. The backgrounds are entirely made up, trying to express the story, in form, light, framing and in ink. I think landscape and architecture can be expressive and useful in storytelling.”
GENESIS arrives in comic book stores on April 16 and bookstores on April 29. At 56 pages and only $6.99, it is the perfect introduction to graphic novels for lovers of surreal and magical literature, and a treat for longtime comics readers as well. It is available for pre-order now.
GENESIS by Nathan Edmondson and Alison Sampson
ISBN 978-1-60706-995-9
56 pages, full color, paperback
$6.99
In comic book stores April 16, bookstores April 29
Available for pre-order now - Diamond code FEB140504
Advance Praise for GENESIS “I am in awe of Alison Sampson’s surrealist architecture. I could stare for hours.” - Kelly Sue DeConnick (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel)
I'm really overwhelmed by the response so far to our little comic. It has been amazing. People have shared, reviewed, read and promised orders. This is still a print to order comic, though and we have a long way to go, with our not very usual $6.99 book. We hope that you can continue to share information about our project, so people can get it while it is here.
Likes are useful, but sharing is better. We hope you can help.
Thank you,
Alison (and Nathan).
co-creators, Genesis.
Inks: Brian the plumber, part of something for Rob Williams and D'Israeli's creator owned book, Ordinary.
This is not the same thing as the thing with the *other* bear. That thing is very nearly completely finished, which is very exciting for all of us who have been involved.
Ryan, I saw you are making a comic for your thesis. Are you aware of comic making communities in your town? If it is Vancouver, you are lucky- you have artists like Brandon Graham working- and a second question, do you know his work?
Hi Alison,
I am attempting to create a graphic novel critiquing traditional aspects of architectural practice. I am becoming more aware as I go, never done anything like this before, but am finding it a great medium to document process over time. The Vancouver Art Gallery has Art Spiegelman on right now. This document I am finding helpful by Jimenez Lai, but I will look into Brandon Graham, when I get a chance. Yes right now I am residing in Vancouver, but mostly dwell within the architecture building.
Thanks very much for making me aware.
RP
