SPX Announces Jeff Lemire and Paul Karasik.
Nice. A press release expressed that Jeff Lemire (writer/artist of The Nobody) and New Yorker writer Paul Karasik (editor of the brilliant Fletcher Hanks book, I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets).
The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce Paul Karasik and Jeff Lemire as guests for SPX 2009.
Paul Karasik is a contributor to both The New Yorker and Nickelodeon magazine. He is the former associate editor of the ground breaking RAW Magazine and a former teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design. As a graduate of the School of Visual Design, he studied with Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. He was the co-creator of the graphic novel “City of Glass”, in collaboration with David Mazzucchelli. Paul’s critically acclaimed “I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets” on the works of Fletcher Hanks won the 2008 Eisner Award for the category Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books. His latest book is another collection of the works of Fletcher Hanks “You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!” published by Fantagraphics Books.
Jeff Lemire won a Xeric Award in 2005 for his book “Lost Dogs.” Between 2007 and 2009 Top Shelf Productions published his Ignatz, Harvey, and Eisner-nominated “Essex County Trilogy” of graphic novels “Tales From the Farm,” “Ghost Stories,” and “The Country Nurse”. They were collected into a single volume and issued earlier this year by Top Shelf as “The Complete Essex County”. Jeff has won the 2008 Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist, the 2008 Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent, and the 2008 American Library Association’s Alex Award (For Adult Books with Teen Appeal.) This year also saw the release of his original graphic novel “The Nobody” from DC/Vertigo. Jeff is currently writing and drawing the new monthly Vertigo series “Sweet Tooth,” which will begin in September.
Paul Karasik and Jeff Lemire are in addition to the previously announced guests Carol Tyler and Josh Neufeld.
SPX will be held Saturday, September 26 from 11AM to 7PM and Sunday, September 27, noon-6PM at The North Bethesda Marriott Convention Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Admission is $10 for a single day and $15 for both days.
Karasik’s first book was a brilliantly compiled retrospective, and the new one You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation is something I’ve been meaning to dive into for a while. With Grad School, though, I’m not sure how much I’m going to be able to do.
Lemire, however has his new ongoing Vertigo series Sweet Tooth coming out this week. Which everyone seems to be fired up over.
Let’s take a spin around the Hollywood Lot.
Some movie news, because I like that stuff, so sorry if I drown you all in it, but there have been some interesting things of note.
- Akiva Goldsman is rebooting Fantastic Four. Gonna be tough to reboot a property that is, well, won’t come off as a ripoff of The Incredibles. Of course, its the other way around, but, yeah.
- Some Danish dude is going to make Deadman. WITH Guillermo Del Toro.
- Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet release date changed to December. People are beginning to see this as baiting it for the Oscars, but well, I don’t see how that could be. In reality its probably more drowning it in a season where the real Oscar bait comes out and more people will see those movies rather than what may be a disaster. I hope not, but I do think Hornet should be a fairly one of a kind movie.
According to the Cantonese, the Marvel and Disney deal is doomed.
Mary HK Choi writing for The Awl detailed how Disney’s bid for Marvel Comics is doomed. DOOMED!
In the wake of the Summer of Death and the colossally major news that Disney bought Marvel for $4 billion (a number that means “death” in Cantonese and is therefore avoided at all costs—not in enumerations of 4, obvs—in addresses, car license plates, cell phone numbers, etc., and, cue ominous, chongy music) and because Mr. Nasir “Nas” Jones says that sleep is the cousin of death, we must report the (in some circles, equally) important news that the soporific in Nyquil (doxylamine succinate) is found in much higher doses elsewhere. Namely Unisom (25 mg per pill vs. 6.25 mg in a 15 ml dose).
Its an interesting point, but the post is meandering, and I kind of lost the point when it starts talking about NyQuil.
