July 7th at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM

THE BEACH BENEATH THE STREET
The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International

Join McKenzie Wark and Kevin C. Pyle at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn for an event to launch Wark's new book, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International.

Readings, Q&A, and exclusive projections based on the book's fold-out jacket, Totality for Beginners—a collaborative graphic essay featuring text selected by McKenzie Wark with composition and drawings by Kevin C. Pyle.

Thursday July 7th, 7.30pm

ISSUE Project Room
at the Old American Can Factory
232 3rd Street (at 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215

For detailed directions to the Old American Can Factory, visit the ISSUE Project Room website.

Free event, open to all. Books will be on sale.

http://www.versobooks.com/events/192-the-beach-beneath-the-street

The Graphic Classroom

This is a great site for teachers interested in using graphic novels in the classroom (and I thought so even BEFORE they reviewed my book.) LINK HERE

Final, FINAL cover.

The fine designers at Henry Holt improved this a bit and here it is. Due out in Winter 2012.

The Beach Beneath the Street book release

McKenzie Wark presents his new book The Beach Beneath the Street: A Fresh Historyof the Situationist International (Verso, 2011) on Wednesday night, June 8 at 8PM,Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers, 218 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn 11211. Telephone 718-387-7322. Admission is free.

Ken and I collaborated on a comic that is incorporated into the foldout poster/jacket of the book.

Zombie chase

Here are some sketches for a section cut from the next book. I don't want to say too much about the project right now but the context for this comic is that it follows a discussion of why fairy tales have some gruesome elements in them and how that type of material may function positively in a child's development. OR how maybe it's just fun to be scared.

Final Cover for Take What You Can Carry

Still working out the back copy type but the cover is approved!

The Beach Beneath the Street

A few years ago I started collaborating with the scholar McKenzie Wark (Chair of Culture and Media at the New School) on a "graphic essay" about the Situationist International, the European revolutionary art movement. The idea was to "détourn" some the writing (selected by Ken) with comics. One manifestation of our efforts, focusing on the Letterists, is now appearing as a nifty fold out poster on the back of the jacket for Ken's new book, "The Beach Beneath The Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International" published by Verso. I designed the jacket as well, nodding a bit to Ken and my mutual affection for the design of the Zone books of years ago.