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 [...]
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TRIP CITY SALON: May 30th
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/ [...]
Dean Haspiel at Atlantic Center for the Arts: Oct 8 – 28
I will be teaching graphic novels for an Artists-In-Residency program at The Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida from Oct 8 – 28th. If interested, please submit by June 8th. http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/artresprog/resschedule/oct/d_haspiel.html
LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS IS HERE!
LeapingTall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics comes out in bookstores everywhere today. The hardcover book is the culmination of four years of work Seth Kushner and Christopher Irving. Leaping takes the profiles from GRAPHIC NYC and fits them all together in a 240 hardcover with beautiful and bold design by Eric Skillman! Publisher’s Weekly posted [...]
SCHMUCK YOU!: Your Schmuckiest Story CONTEST
Send your schmuckiest, most happless, awkward, embarrassing and/or clumsy personal story, 800 words or less, by May 11 and I’ll pick the top three which will then be read by a jury comprised of Emmy Award winning cartoonist, Dean Haspiel (Bored To Death, Billy Dogma), Eisner award winning cartoonist Nick Abadzis, (Laika, Hugo Tate), and [...]
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Signings
Dean Haspiel will be celebrating FREE COMIC BOOK DAY at Beyond Comics on the afternoon of Saturday, May 5th, where he’ll draw mini-mash up headshots of your favorite superheroes. Hulk & Green Lantern? Thing & Batman? Beyond Comics 18749 B North Frederick Rd Gaithersburg, MD 20879 301-216-0007 Seth Kushner & Christopher Irving will will be [...]
A Brooklyn Detour By Way of Pittsburgh: A Steel City Noir Primer
The byline reads, “A Brooklyn-Filtered Literary Arts Salon.” And yet, here I sit, writing yet another dark story about Pittsburgh. The obvious question is, “Why?” Why don’t I set my stories in New York City, or one of the other four boroughs? Why do I keep taking you on a visit to Western Pennsylvania? I [...]
Cinco de Sandra
CINCO DE SANDRA: A CELEBRATION OF COMIX, STORYTELLING, AND MUSIC On May 5, 2012, an all-star lineup of DC and NYC storytellers will come together to blow your mind with live performances of poetry, comix, and stories at the Hillyer Art Space in Dupont Circle. Venues represented include Trip City, Act-i-vate, and Barrelhouse. And after [...]
ALONG WITH CLAIRE featuring Dean Haspiel
The debut episode of Along with Claire video interviews Dean Haspiel about TRIP CITY and the digital age of self-publishing.
TRIP CITY at MoCCA Fest 2012
Hot off the presses! We will have fresh copies of the TRIP CITY VISITOR’S GUIDE 2012, our very first literary arts print anthology available for sale [$5] at Jeffrey Burandt aka Jef UK’s table [I2] at the MoCCA Fest this weekend [April 28 -29, from 11am - 6pm], located at the 69th Regiment Armory, 68 [...]
Emmy Award Winning Pencil Shavings by Comic Artist Dean Haspiel
http://youtu.be/akZxbc6M2_0 Emmy Award winning artist Dean Haspiel draws a lot of “Museum Quality” stuff, and now you can own a piece of comic book history… HIS PENCIL SHAVINGS!! That’s Right! Help break the internet in half by paying for the shavings which he drew original Bored to Death art, Godzilla, Leaping Tall Buildings poster, Occupy [...]
Harvey Pekar’s CLEVELAND/Tribute at The Strand, April 25th
Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland: A Tribute with Joyce Brabner, Dean Haspiel, Jeff Newelt and Joseph Remnant April 25: 7:00PM – 8:00PM “Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures,” said American Splendor’s Harvey Pekar, pioneer of autobiographical comics who passed away on July 12, 2010. Celebrating the publication of the [...]
