New York, New York

on September 3, 2008
This might be a double post for some people, but Eleanor’s doing a bunch of signings in New York in a couple days, for her new “TOON Book,” Stinky. If you’re in the area, stop on by!

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From the TOON Books press release:

TOON Books are a collection of hardcover, full-color comics for early readers published by New Yorker Art Editor Françoise Mouly with Series Advisor Art Spiegelman. The imprint launched in Spring 2008 and has received near-universal praise.

Following is a schedule of events planned to mark the debuts of Stinky and Mo and Jo:

Friday, September 5, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
• Desert Island, 540 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211
Eleanor Davis & Dean Haspiel—reading, signing and launch party!

Saturday, September 6, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
• McNally Jackson NYC, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
Eleanor Davis & Dean Haspiel, introduced by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. Please note: Mr. Spiegelman will not sign books at this event.

Monday, September 8, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
• Jim Hanley’s Universe, 4 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001
Eleanor Davis & Dean Haspiel—reading and signing.

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I’m going with her! This’ll be my first visit to NY, so if you know any can’t-be missed restaurants (preferably cheap,) museums, bookstores, comics-related things, or general tourist-type activities, let us know!

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Fluke photo set!

on April 13, 2008
Hey! Here are some pictures from Fluke! Some of them were taken by me, but many were taken by Antar. I’ll probably go back in and add more descriptions later.

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Progress is made

on April 2, 2008
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Eleanor made a big “thermometer” to chart our Secret Science Alliance progress, both thumbnails, pencils, and inks. Where are we now? At about 180 out of 460 filled units. But we’ve been making steady progress. Here, Detroit takes a sniff at the finished pages.

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A paltry stack so far, but growing.

Are you guys excited for Fluke next weekend? ‘Cause I’m kinda terrified! I really need to get more ’07 Anthologies printed up!

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lights out in the little house

on March 11, 2008

(X-posted from the litle house blog)

Hey guys!

Looks like we’re going to have to shut the Little House site down until June.

Until then, every moment of Eleanor’s (and my) time is going to be filled by turning this:

into a finished book! These are Eleanor’s thumbs for her upcoming kid’s book, The Secret Science Alliance. I’m going to be inking it!

And since Eleanor and I are about to enter super-deadline-crunch mode, and we’re not going to have the time to fill orders, much less make new copies of all the minicomics we’re low on.

Don’t worry, we’ll be bringing it back, revamped and with a lot more original art for sale. But if there’s anything you want now, you’ve got till Friday!

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Awful Little Men

on February 25, 2008

• Devlin took Eleanor and David Mack and me up to the “Silver Scream” showing of Mad Love – apparently Peter Lorre’s first American movie role. What an amazing movie – it’s a hodgepodge of German Expressionist sets, Grand Guignol, and broad comedy veering unexpectedly to horror -and back again. Lorre’s the brilliant (but, of course, demented,) surgeon, Doctor Gogol. There’s a beautiful actress he’s obsessed with. There’s her famous pianist husband, who has his hands crushed in a train accident. Gogol transplants the hands of a recently-guillotined murderer (who happened to be a knife-thrower for a circus,) onto the pianist, with the expected result. There’s even a drunken housekeeper with a parrot.

• After the movie Eleanor said that young Lorre “looked like a beautiful baby.” I had to admit it was true. There were all these long lingering closeups on him, all this velvety modeling of shadows on his bald head. One of the cinematographers apparently later worked on Citizen Kane.

• The spook show before the movie was great as well. They also showed a Three Stooges short. Lest you trust Eleanor’s judgement TOO much, she also called the Three Stooges “awful little men.”

• Here is a little snippet of a project I am working on:

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