Now that
AWESOME: The Indie Spinner Rack Anthology has premiered -- and special thanks to our pals Alex and Mary for hosting our
launch party at Brooklyn's Rocketship and making it such a spectacular success -- Ryan and Fred can get to work to finishing the first issue of their follow-up project to AP, COMIC BOOK COMICS, the irreverent but definitive history of manga, comics and graphic novels in comic book form. (AWESOME, of course, finds the very first [albeit
stand-alone] CBC installment...pick yours up at your local comic book store or
the ISR gang themselves immediately if not sooner!)
We're happy to report that the boys are working hard, with Fred putting the final touches on the #2 script while Ryan is furiously finishing the art for #1 in time for the planned
March '08 release date. And with the entire Van Lente and Dunlavey clans in the Washington, DC area to premiere AWESOME at this year's
Small Press Expo, we made a field trip to the
National Gallery of Art, where CBC subject
Roy Lichtenstein donated much of his stuff. And art.
As you can see folks, Evil Twin Comics spares no expense researching our comedy non-fiction comics, as long as the research is personally convenient to us. The photo at right depicts ETC founder and resident pop artist
Ryan Dunlavey (pictured with baby) with
"Look Mickey", Lichtenstein's first piece of pop art.
That's right, kids, ACTION PRESIDENTS is in development, and the crack Evil Twin Comics team, in order to bring you the finest quality and most obnoxious non-fiction comedy possible are sparing no expense in traveling for research ... as long as said research is in (cough) driving distance from New York City. Our intrepid scribe FRED and his beautiful wife spent Memorial Day Weekend visiting three (count 'em) THREE Roosevelt-related sites and he'll you all about the hilarity that ensued in his travel blog on the ETC boards.
Well, Action Philosophers history. Close enough.
Sick of listening to us yet? Hope not, because we can yap with the best of them. The evil geniuses behind Evil Twin get interviewed on this popular podcast about the upcoming conclusion of AP with #9, as well as preview our 2008 projects: ACTION PRESIDENTS and COMIC BOOK COMICS! Check it out here! (If you want to skip right to our bit, it comes on the show around time stamp 01:09:33.)
Well -- sort of. First off, kudos to longtime Evil Twin Comics pal and supporter Alex Simmons for organizing the first-ever Kids Comics Con at beautiful Bronx Community College on April 28, 2007. And appearing there is special guest, ETC's own Fred Van Lente, who from noon to 1pm on the day of the con will be giving brief walk along the time line of comics and cartoons, from the 1800s to 2006" on the main convention floor with comics historian Prof. William H. Foster ... which will give you something of a preview into the insanity that shall be Ryan and Fred's next project, Comic Book Comics, the definitive history of the comic book medium in comic book form! So drop everything in be there! Directions to Bronx Community College can be found here, and the complete list of convention programming can be found on Alex's site here.
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), the fastest growing division of the American Library Association (ALA), has announced its 2007 recommended list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Among the winners is Evil Twin Comics' Action Philosophers Giant-Size Thing vol 1. The books on the list meet the criteria of both good quality literature and reading appeal for teens.
