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Monday, June 4th, 2012
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12:36 pm - Dino FAQ
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http://www.deanhaspiel.com/
Emmy award winning artist, Dean Haspiel, created the Eisner Award nominated BILLY DOGMA, the semi-autobiographical digital comic, STREET CODE, helped pioneer personal webcomics with the invention of ACT-I-VATE, and co-created/co-curates, TRIP CITY.net, a Brooklyn-filtered, multimedia salon.
Dean has drawn many great superhero and semi-autobiographical comic books published by Marvel, DC/Vertigo, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, Scholastic Graphix, Toon Books, Top Shelf, Playboy, The New York Times, and Tor.com, including critically acclaimed collaborations with Harvey Pekar (American Splendor, The Quitter), Jonathan Ames (The Alcoholic), Jonathan Lethem (Cousin Corinne’s REMINDER), Tim Hall (The Last Mortician), and with Inverna Lockpez on the Harvey Award winning, CUBA: My Revolution. Dean illustrated the Super Ray comics art for HBO’s “Bored To Death,” for which he won an Emmy award for his work on the opening title sequence. Recently, Dino teamed up with Ben McCool to co-create THE FIVE-DIMENSIONAL ADVENTURES OF DIRK DAVIES, an original webcomic [loosely based on the Namco arcade video game, Warp & Warp] for ShiftyLook.
TRIP CITY is the current vista where Dean Haspiel’s cosmic bruiser, Billy Dogma, excavates unexpurgated romance and adventure with his knock ‘em dead dame, Jane Legit, while flexing two-fisted aggro-moxie and purple staccato for the 21st Century.
Please click here to see what Dean’s been up to at TRIP CITY: http://welcometotripcity.com/author/dean-haspiel/
ATTENTION Art Directors, Editors, Publishers, Writers, Etc: if you’d like to see current samples of Dean Haspiel’s art, please check out his gallery: http://welcometotripcity.com/2012/01/dean-haspiel-gallery/
( Click here for comix, interviews, news, videos, and other essential links )
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| Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
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12:05 pm - McCool & Haspiel's THE FIVE-DIMENSIONAL ADVENTURES OF DIRK DAVIES #s 15 & 16 + More!
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| Friday, June 1st, 2012
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1:03 pm - MCM Expo in London
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Jet-lagged and bedazzled, I resurrected in NYC having enjoyed a ShiftyLook camaraderie that formed from my London trip to MCM Expo to promote THE FIVE-DIMENSIONAL ADVENTURES OF DIRK DAVIES last weekend. I was glad to meet/get-to-know publisher Rob Pereyda and the ShiftyLook crew [Tim & Cory], and Hollie Bennett and the Japanese Namco Bandai executives, who were super kind.
I didn't get to see London proper [except for a posh dinner at Simpson's in the Strand the last night of the show] but the cosplay was mesmerizing. Their kind is a committed strain of human being and they dance to throbbing electronica [of the Rave persuasion?] with the verve of a thousand leaping samurai which thrilled me! I think 85% of the fans were 14-year old girls and boys dressed up in fantasy dreams. No way their parents let them out of the "flat" looking like that. There was some serious switch and jail bait happening in the "tubes" and toilets to have this mass quantity of garters, mini-skirts, and paper swords parading around. Everyone looked like a living doll. Thanks to a life-time of ugly American puritanical brainwashing, I kept thinking I was going to be arrested for being age inappropriate at the con. I was a bit befuddled. See, MCM Expo is NOT a comic-con, proper, although I got to meet some of the guys responsible for the excellent NoBrow publications and the folks who organize The Leeds Comic Art Festival. MCM Expo was strictly Gamers and Manga members only! At least you knew who the creators were because we all wore dark t-shirts and jeans. It was like we were inside some kind of reality TV game-show beta/chemistry test: black dotted "blokes" swirling about a sea of sweet pink and milky white human eye candy while avoiding moral judgment at every level with a brief Danny Devito intermission [he was there to promote his new LORAX movie]. At least, that's how it felt for me. Maybe I need to get out of the house or the country more often. The DIG DUG tournament was a blast as the 30-year old game ruled the crowd.
Comix God, Marv Wolfman, was a generous, educational, and inspiring man [he wrote the first issue of The Fantastic Four I ever read, FF #197]. The Udon cats were hella cool [Jim, Matt, Dax: that's how you rock a studio!], and I met Wallace & Gromit! Fer reelz. Ben McCool? What can I say -- he is a gentleman, a scholar, a great collaborator, and a champion drinker. I truly don't know how he does it.
[Dino, Wallace & Gromit]
[Dino and Marv Wolfman]
[Ben McCool and Dino]
[MCM Expo ShiftyLook panel: Marv Wolfman, Jim Zub, Ben McCool, Dean Haspiel, Dax Gordine, Matt Moylan]
[ShiftyLook in effect!]
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| Thursday, May 31st, 2012
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6:11 pm - 45
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[Dino at the TRIP CITY Salon. Photograph by Seth Kushner]
[Jen Ferguson gives Dean a birthday kiss. Photo by Reid Harris Cooper]
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| Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
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4:37 pm - Better Than Fiction reviews CUBA: MY REVOLUTION
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http://heydlnelson.blogspot.com/2012/05/2012-end-of-week-21-books.html
"This book written by Inverna Lockpez may not be a biography, but it sure feels like one. Lockpez (who left Cuba herself in the sixties) weaves a dramatic tale of a seventeen year old girl living in Cuba. Sonya has two choices for a career: Art or Medicine. But when Fidel Castro's revolution takes over her beloved Cuba her choice is all but made for her. So Sonya puts art on the back burner to study medicine. Being behind the revolution Sonya is willing to give a little for the greater good of Cuba. But as the country and the people around her fall deeper and deeper into turmoil Sonya begins to realize that maybe this revolution isn't a good thing after all.
This book (drawn by Dean Haspiel) reminds me Empire Of The Sun or Hotel Rwanda. This story, once again, shows people living their lives then their world is turned upside down by a government or new regime. It's a real page turner. Highly recommended."
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| Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
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8:22 am - Lethem + Dino = DaDa
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| Monday, May 28th, 2012
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5:35 am - McCool & Haspiel's THE FIVE-DIMENSIONAL ADVENTURES OF DIRK DAVIES #s 13 & 14 + More!
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| Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
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4:27 pm - Dean Haspiel & Seth Kushner interviewed on Word Balloon podcast
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Me and Seth Kushner were interviewed by John Siuntres on the latest Word Balloon podcast where we discuss TRIP CITY, Leaping Tall Buildings (written by Christopher Irving), our current projects + the Before Watchmen and Jack Kirby controversies, digital comics, and more.
“Dean Haspiel and Seth Kushner return to Word Balloon to discuss the TRIP CITY website, a multimedia hub for many Brooklyn creative artists. Dean and Seth have been co-hosting the Trip City Podcast featuring peer-to-peer conversations between comic book creators, and other media creators and stars. Kushner is also here to talk about his photographic work in the new comics history book Leaping Tall Buildings written by Christopher Irving. Irving and Kushner produced an excellent look at creators from golden age stalwarts like Joe Simon, Irwin Hasen, and Jerry Robinson, to today’s web comic innovators. From mainstream to underground no era or genre of comics is ignored, and the profiles presented by the duo are unparallelled. Haspiel talks about current projects like making the 6 page digital comic for THE DOORS mobile app, which depicts the band’s official point of view of the infamous Miami concert of March 1st, 1969. Haspiel also has a Godzilla Legends issue this month from IDW written by Bobby Curnow, and a quirky upcoming 8 page Spider-Man story for Marvel later this year. The guys also discuss the Before Watchmen and Jack Kirby controversies, digital comics and more.”
Click here to listen: http://ifanboy.com/podcasts/word-balloon-podcast-jeph-loeb-dean-haspiel-seth-kushner-steve-bryant/
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
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9:38 pm - FLAUNT exclusive interview with Dean Haspiel
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http://flaunt.com/flaunt/flaunt-exclusive-dean-haspiel
Excerpt:
“I’d say my comics border on romance, science fiction, crimes of the heart; they’re very earnest and invoke empathy. You know, we live in a cynical world right now where a lot of our TV shows and our movies are a lot darker than they used to be and as I get older I’ve discovered that I’m more interested in movies like the ones by Preston Sturges from the 1940s or noir because not only were there a lot more basic truths that were being told artistically back then, but also there was a sense of hope and I feel like a lot of today’s stories lack that. What I try to do is take the bombastic parts of what I love between you know kung-fu, horror, hip-hop, and electronica and I try to mix that up and I’m kind of DJ’ing those stories into my own work. It’s the only way I can describe it.”
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| Saturday, May 19th, 2012
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12:26 pm - McCool & Haspiel's THE FIVE-DIMENSIONAL ADVENTURES OF DIRK DAVIES #s 11 & 12 + More!
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| Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
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6:15 pm - Dean Haspiel contributes to 50th Anniversary of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (#692)
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[Sneak peek from my Spidey story]
I am proud to announce that I have written and drawn a story for the 50th Anniversary issue of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (#692) that pays homage to Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and John Romita. It's colored by Giulia Brusco and comes out in August. Thanks, Steve Wacker!
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #692
DAN SLOTT (w) • HUMBERTO RAMOS (a/C)
Spider-Man Decades variant covers by Marcos Martin• Special 50TH Anniversary Issue!
• Join us for a once in a lifetime event: the one, true 50th Anniversary Issue of the Amazing Spider-Man.
• A special over-sized issue harkening back to the legend that started it all! Get ready for an all-new tale about a different kind of power and responsibility...
• Plus original stories by Dean Haspiel, Joshua Hale Fialkov & Nuno Plati!
64 PGS. all-new content/Rated T …$5.99
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=38700
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11:01 am - Original BILLY DOGMA piece for sale at Brooklyn Bridge art show @Urban Folk Art Gallery
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Along with TRIP CITY artists, photographers and painters like Jen Ferguson, and Seth Kushner, I will be showing and selling an original Billy Dogma piece and a limited edition of prints [see above] inspired by The Brooklyn Bridge and “The Last Romantic Antihero” at The 3rd Annual Brooklyn Bridge Birthday Celebration group art show at Brooklyn Tattoo and Urban Folk Art Gallery launching May 25th. I have never sold an original Billy Dogma piece, so this is kind of special to me.
For more info: http://welcometotripcity.com/2012/05/brooklyn-bridge-art-show-urban-folk-art-gallery/
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| Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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12:41 am - TRIP CITY Salon - May 30th
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TRIP CITY LIVE! The Brooklyn-filtered, multimedia, literary arts salon TRIP CITY (http://TRIPCITY.net/) presents its first offline hullabaloo: Live Comix, Stories, Music, Girls, Food and Libations on Wednesday, May 30th from 8pm – 11pm at Fornino Park Slope. 254 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215-1924
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/132609150207335
Starring:
DEAN HASPIEL http://welcometotripcity.com/contributors/deanhaspiel/
SANDRA BEASLEY http://tripcity.net/contributors/sandra-beasley/
SETH KUSHNER http://tripcity.net/contributors/seth-kushner/
CHRIS MISKIEWICZ http://tripcity.net/contributors/chris-miskiewicz/
BROOKE VAN POPPELEN http://www.brookevanpoppelen.com/
AMERICANS UK http://tripcity.net/contributors/jef-uk/
JOE INFURNARI http://tripcity.net/contributors/joe-infurnari/
PLUCKY CHARMS
JAHFURRY http://tripcity.net/contributors/jeff-newelt/
KIKI VALENTINE http://kikivalentine.tumblr.com/
JOSH FRANKEL http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/cleveland/767
Q*BALL http://welcometotripcity.com/contributors/ron-scalzo/
+ Special Guests
http://TRIPCITY.net/ = free regular content including original fiction, memoir, spoken word essays, first-person pop, bite-sized noir, post-punk apocalyptic rock, cocksure comix, icon-o-classic profiles, romance & neurotica, podcasts & interviews created by a fellowship of 21st Century auteurs
Curated by and featuring exclusive content from Emmy award winning artist Dean Haspiel (Billy Dogma, Bored to Death), Seth Kushner (Leaping Tall Buildings, The Brooklynites), Chris Miskiewicz (Everywhere), and Jeffrey Burandt aka Jef UK (Americans UK).
Featuring Joe Infurnari (MUSH! Sled Dogs with Issues, Marathon), Jennifer Hayden (Underwire), Nick Abadzis (Laika), Jen Ferguson (Art in Chaos), Ron Scalzo (Bald Freak Music), Sandra Beasley (Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life , I Was The Jukebox), Dan Goldman (Shooting War, Red Light Properties), Jeff Newelt (Heeb Magazine, The Pekar Project), Jonathan Vankin (The World’s Greatest Conspiracies), Amy Finkel (Furever), Kevin Colden (Fishtown), Vito Delsante (FCHS), Amanda Ferguson (HBO’s Luck), Eric Skillman (Liar’s Kiss), and The Perv Whisperer (The Perv Whisperer).
TC Blog post: http://welcometotripcity.com/2012/05/trip-city-salon-may-30th/
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12:15 am - Snow Angel
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| Sunday, May 13th, 2012
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1:30 pm - Frenchtown, NJ
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1:28 pm - Dean Haspiel at Atlantic Center for the Arts: Oct 8 – 28
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12:01 pm - MCM Expo
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| Saturday, May 12th, 2012
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12:16 pm - McCool & Haspiel's THE FIVE-DIMENSIONAL ADVENTURES OF DIRK DAVIES #s 9 & 10 + More
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| Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
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12:46 am - God
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| Monday, May 7th, 2012
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11:37 pm - McCool & Haspiel's THE FIVE-DIMENSIONAL ADVENTURES OF DIRK DAVIES eps 7 & 8 + more
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