In October last year I was invited to study at a three-week-long residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Dave Kelly and Lara Antal of So What? Press have created an anthology of work from the residency,
Breakers. I'm very honored to be part of it and will be at the official launch party, hosted by Desert Island on April 25th. From the press release:
The book will have its East Coast premiere at Desert Island, 540
Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY on Thursday, April 25th at 7:00 pm. The
event is free and open to the public. Beer and cookies (in the shape of
sharks) will be provided. The book will be offered at a discounted
price of $10.00 at this event.
The book will be available in stores and online the following week. So
What? Press handles all distribution worldwide. For more information, visit www.sowhatpress.com.
So What? Press, the new publishing imprint headed by Dave Kelly & Lara Antal, is set to release Breakers, an anthology of comics featuring Ellen Forney, Dean Haspiel, Megan Kelso, and twenty-two other outstanding cartoonists:
Jessica Ruliffson, Gabrielle Gamboa, Gregory MacKay, Lark Pien, Boum
(Samantha Leriche-Gionet), Nusha Ashjaee, George Folz, Jp Pollard, Jen
Breach, Lara Antal, Rebecca Case, Jean Chen, Julie Condon, Gabrielle
Greenlee, Lynda May, K-Fai Steele, Theresa Coulter, Sean Ironman,
Christa Cassano, Fionnuala Doran, James Greene, and Meghan Lands.
From the back cover:
In October 2012, twenty-six comics creators descended upon Central Florida
for a three-week residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. These
lost souls were set adrift in an incubator of creativity amidst killer
sharks, a local nude beach, and other primordial nature. Under the
tutelage of Ellen Forney, Dean Haspiel, and Megan Kelso, a body of work
was generated that interwove many similar themes based on their new
found tropical isolation. What you hold in your hands is a summation of
that experience, a document of a wondrous blur of creative freedom, and
perhaps an artifact of a comics paradise lost.
