Clearly enjoying himself, Morrison began by teasing the first audience member who stood up and told Morrison “The Invisibles,” Morrison’s first foray incomic books, changed his life. “It was designed to change fucking lives! Kudos!” laughed Morrison. When asked about the stark difference in tone between “The Invisibles” and his next chronological work, the adult and grim series “The Filth,” Morrison told the audience that “Filth” actually came out of a happy point of his life while “Invisibles” came out of a darker time. “In ‘Invisibles,’ I was trying to cheer myself and everybody else up,” said Morrison.
By Michael Schilf
The Script LabSo you’re a screenwriter in Hollywood trying to land your next writing gig (or first) in order to pay the rent for that ant-infested studio apartment on the south side of Korea Town. Or you’re in Dubuque, Iowa, doing your 9 to 5 at a meat…
PR and content are all tied together now,” she maintained. Everyone is just telling stories on the Internet, so if you want to succeed in PR, you need to be a storyteller.
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- The Atlantic “What big Media Can Learn from the New York Public Library” Great piece on our friends at NYPL. And of course, we PR people have to stick together. (via alittlespace) |
by Jason Aaron for Comic Book Resources Sorry to disappoint you, but there’s no such thing as a secret sure-fire formula for actually finding work in comics. I’m afraid, though, there most definitely is for the opposite. For not finding work. For not building a career. For propelling yourself in the wrong direction on the ladder. The easiest way is to just not be very good. “But wait,” you might say. “What about such-and-such creator on such-and-such book? They suck. I know I’m better than them! If they’re getting work, then I should be able to get some too.” You may not like a specific creator’s work, but if they’re continuing to get assignments when you’re not, then the question becomes, “What are they doing better than you?”
How “Ghost World” made me brave
In high school, I longed to be as edgy as Enid. Then something devastating happened
For our senior prank, my best friend and I papered the high school auditorium with photocopied, blown-up images from Daniel Clowes’ comic book “Ghost World.” While our classmates inserted porn in between the pages of the library’s encyclopedias and parked teachers’ cars in the middle of the quad, Nikki and I thought broadcasting our love for “Ghost World” was the ultimate act of rebellion: We took particular pride in posting the image of the book’s heroines, Enid and Rebecca, in commencement caps and gowns, giving their alma mater the finger. I knew even back then that I wasn’t as edgy and outspoken as Enid, but I really, really wanted to be.
Amazon.com said on Thursday that the company now sells more eBooks than books printed on paper.
“Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, in a statement. “We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly — we’ve been selling print books for 15 years and Kindle books for less than four years.”
Since April 1, for every 100 print books sold on Amazon, 105 Kindle eBooks have been sold, as noted by Times reporter Carolyn Kellogg on our sister blog Jacket Copy.
Sarah Hromack, for Frieze:
“If anything, the advent of art e-book publishing will test the strength of the community that has historically supported artists’ publishing efforts, requiring a new willingness to engage with emerging technologies and their channels of distribution. This is, perhaps, Badlands Unlimited’s more easily overlooked contribution to the future of digital publishing: The Essential and Incomplete Sade… and Waiting for Godot… are distributed through the Apple iBooks store, along with Amazon and Badlands Unlimited’s own website. Mans in the Mirror, however, has been rejected by Apple three times for unknown reasons; Phaedrus Pron (2010), which is typeset in a computer font designed by Chan to render text (here, Plato’s Phaedrus) into distinctly X-rated erotic verse, passed muster on the first go. By publishing e-books whose content deliberately tests the boundaries of major distributors – and by developing self-sustaining alternatives to their systems – Badlands Unlimited is forcing several lines of inquiry: who decides what constitutes an art object or a book, when art and digital publishing meet? What is an exhibition catalogue or an artist’s e-book – or rather, what could they be – when materially bound to a physical format rife with implications, commercial and otherwise?”
I think I’m going to only write articles with “Death” in title.
Over the past few episodes of the Paperkeg podcast, we’re talked about where the industry could be in 5, 10, or even 15 years. Over the past few episodes at least one host has come to the shocking revelation that J. Michael…
In case you haven’t been keeping abreast of gigantic controversies in contemporary American literature, we would like to take a second to inform you that James Frey’s The Final Testament of the Holy Bible will be released on April 22, which just so happens to be Good Friday. Oh yeah, we also just posted the only excerpt from the book in the whole wide world.
The Final Testament concerns one Ben Zion, an apparent modern-day messiah living, preaching, fucking, and touching the lives of many individuals (sometimes with his miracle-inducing penis) in modern-day New York City. It has already caused a tsunami of outrage among bible-thumpers and literati alike, but fuck those people. They are boring.
As if the excerpt wasn’t enough of a scooper-dooper, we’ll be posting an exclusive interview with Frey next Monday along with an extended chinwag with the author on a new episode of VBS Meets… See you then.
Read the rest at Vice Magazine: WE HAVE AN EXCERPT FROM JAMES FREY’S NEW BOOK - Viceland Today
