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.

Final Cover Sketch

"A Secret Mercy" has now become "Take What You Can Carry" and the cover sketch and design is approved. I like the new title much better. It will hit the stores next winter.

WW3 30th press

Today is the last day of the Exit show but it is slated to travel. Thanks to the staff at Exit Art and Peter, Seth and Susan for all the hard work putting together the show. Here's a collection of the press:

New York Times

East Village Local

Comixology

Steve Brodner

Drawger

New York Going

Freedom Funnies

Six Chix (1st article) (2nd article)

Imprint

Drawger