Monthly Archives: June 2011
Mojito Monday – The Castro launch at Foyles
As we all know, Monday night is the new Thursday night, which in itself is the new Friday night. Next Monday is also American Independence Day! So what better way to spend Monday 4th July is there, than spending it with … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, books, Castro, COMICA, comics, event, Foyles, graphic biography, graphic novel, Kleist, literature, mojito, Paul Gravett, SelfMadeHero
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Guest blogger, Patrick McEown: Process (3/3)
Again, like the story, my method of working is somewhat convoluted and non-linear. Writing and drawing are part of a fluid process whereby they each respond to one another almost simultaneously. I move back and forth very quickly between the … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, graphic novel, Hairshirt, how to, Patrick McEown, process, SelfMadeHero, technique
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Guest blogger, Patrick McEown: Characters (2/3)
One of the challenges Hair Shirt posed for me was developing credible characters over an extended narrative, which I’d only attempted once or twice before and very early on in my career. The results of those early efforts were predictably … Continue reading
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Tagged character design, characters, graphic novel, hair shirt, Hairshirt, Mike Allred, No Escape, Patrick McEown, Queen of Darkness, SelfMadeHero, Wanted Man, Zombie World: Champion of Worm
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Dan Lockwood: The Lovecraft Anthology – volume II
Something’s wrong. Something’s terribly wrong, but I can’t quite seem to put it into words. I barely know where to start. If only… if only my nerves were stronger. But I can’t pretend any longer; I must tell someone about … Continue reading
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Tagged Ade Salmon, Anthology, Attila Futaki, Ben Dickson, Bryan Baugh, Chad Fifer, Chris Lackey, dan lockwood, Dwight L. Macpherson, graphic novel, Jamie Delano, Lovecraft, Matt Timson, Mick McMahon, news, Pat Mills, Paul Peart-Smith, SelfMadeHero, Simon Spurrier, Steve Pugh
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Guest blogger, Patrick McEown: How It Came to Be (1/3)
The exact genesis of Hair Shirt, like the story itself, is a little nebulous and hard to locate precisely in time and space. It’s the most recent and fully developed manifestation of some ideas I’ve been working with for some … Continue reading
Castro – the launch party
We invite you to have a mojito or two at the launch of a truly brilliant graphic biography: CASTRO by Reinhard Kleist. In association with the Goethe Institut and the COMICA Festival, SelfMadeHero is celebrating the publication of the graphic biography CASTRO … Continue reading
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Tagged Castro, Cuba, Havana, Michael Waaler, Reinhard Kleist, SelfMadeHero
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SelfMadeHero at Latitude
We are now allowed (and delighted) to inform you that SelfMadeHero will be doing two fun graphic novel events at Festival Republic’s ace Latitude Festival 2011. We have prepped two exclusive, late night treats for the Literary Stage. On Friday night, just after … Continue reading
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Tagged DJ Emmanem, event, festival, graphic novels, heckling, JAKe, Latitude, live, Reinhard Kleist, Robert Sellers, Suffolk
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Guest blogger, Nora Mahony: On translating David B.’s BLACK PATHS
Par les chemins noirs by David B. particularly piqued my interest because it tells an Italian story in French. As a translator working from both languages, I hoped I’d bring something extra to the party, and the first email from … Continue reading
SelfMadeHero invites you to celebrate the publication of a graphic novel
We’re delighted to invite fans of David B. to come and meet the author on this extra special evening. If you haven’t been to the launch venue – the bookshop Clerkenwell Tales – then you won’t know that it is … Continue reading
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Tagged booksellerpete, Clerkenwell Tales, David B., graphic novel, launch, Nora Mahony, SelfMadeHero
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