#daniel mccloskey

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It's Cloud Town Tuesday when I post an image from my graphic novel and talk about the process of making it!

If you haven't read it, the giant monsters in Cloud Town are all called Hurricanes and have similar naming conventions to the hurricanes in our world. That helped me choose names here by using the creatures that had been mentioned within the pages of the book as anchor points and going up and down the alphabet from there. By the time I was drawing this page, it was getting late and I had a lot of work left to do. The deadline was right around the corner and although I do love drawing monsters of all kinds, my imagination was starting to stall out from exhaustion. I made two choices that would help me finish the next three pages before the deadline in the morning. Can you guess what they are?

Answer in the comments or just wait and I'll tell you next week.

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Art from my dude Daniel McCloskey

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Cloud Town: Friends in Stormy Weather by Daniel McCloskey

Cloud Town: Friends in Stormy Weather, Part One is a self-published, 116-page (7 3/4” x 10”), spiral-bound, “Teen +” graphic novel printed in black & white & blue (and also, occasionally, in other tones as well, as called for; most notably yellow and orange) that has been released in a hand signed and numbered limited edition of 200 copies. 

Copacetic Exclusive Limited Special Offer

Anyone purchasing a copy of Cloud Town: Friends in Stormy Weather, Part One will also receive, a copy of the hardcover edition of the original Cloud Town graphic novel from Amulet – with a new, limited edition alternative dust jacket AND a copy of the 24-page, digest-size, black & white & blue (& orange) Cloud Town Prequel AND a copy of the 12-page, full color, digest-size autobio comic book, Failing to Quit PLUS two full color Cloud Town postcards – all by Daniel McCloskey and ALL AT NO EXTRA COST (aka FREE!).  

>>> HERE <<<

[dirtydesk]

My collaborative chapbook LATE or Dear Tameka is officially available for preorder.

This book was published by Jimmy Riordan’s Rabbit Rabbit press, is fully risograph printed, and documents the building of a powerful friendship through Dr. Tameka Cage Conley and my email correspondence.

You can order it by clicking HERE

Instead of paying for shipping choose the “pick up” option and come see us read at the official release party at 4pm on Sunday June 26th at Belvederess Ultra-Dive (4016 Butler Street  Pittsburgh, PA 15201)

You can see Tameka and I read an excerpt from the book HERE

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New in the Birdcage Bottom Books shop:

Daniel McCloskey’s “Free Money #5″

The year is 2046 and everybody hustles to get by, Neema Gould is just better at it. She’s the Indiana Jones of day laborers, but even the best get knocked down. She’s got no ride, no home, and no shoes; just a bag of tools, a robot named Money, a phone named Grandpa, and a bunch of problems.

Free Money is like The Fifth Element meets Cannery Row, drawn in the unique style that brought you Top of the Line, and A Film About Billy. Free Money is a fantasy for the 99% of us who are just trying to keep it together written and illustrated by a guy living in a car with a dog. (more work by Dan at http://www.birdcagebottombooks.com/?s=daniel+mccloskey)

7.25″ x 11″, 22 pages. $10 Full-color on newsprint in a limited-edition 2-color risograph cover (numbered, signed, with hell-money stapled into select copies [burn with comic to ensure the ghosts of your loved ones have something to read]).

- See more at: http://www.birdcagebottombooks.com/shop/free-money-5/#sthash.eqOebgDU.dpuf

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In the last 4 months I’ve spent around 800 hours making 80 pages of Free Money, a comic that is I have distributed for free in my city, donating roughly $35,000* worth of comics to the people of Pittsburgh PA. Next month after issue 5 comes out you can bump those figures by a cool 20%. I have biked walked and drove all over the city with hundreds of pounds of comics on my back, I have grown as an illustrator and story teller, and I have to admit I’m guilty of pride. I’m taking this moment to pat myself on the back and say thank you.

Thank to that young woman at the Pizzeria who leaned over the counter and yelled, “finally I’ve been waiting forever,” when I walked in with a stack of Issue #4. Thanks to the guy at the bar that screamed when he found out I was the “Free Money guy.”

Thanks to Madeline at Franktuary, Jason with Pittsburgh’s 10 Min Play Fest, Kevin with Ghost Dance Recordings, Lesley at East End Book Exchange, and especially the wondrous and wonderful Bill B at Copacetic Comics for helping to diffuse some of the cost of printing Free Money along with all of my Patreon supporters.

*I place the loose value of one Free Money comic as 1 gal. gas, I used $2.20 as the price of gas in that calculation.

If you want to join the ranks of these bold philanthropists helping me bring Free Money to the people of Pittsburgh consider showing your support by ordering my books at Birdcage Bottom Books, or becoming a Patreon.