Last months episode of my semi-autobio comic SCHMUCK , “Beers, Babes and Bowel Movements” (art by Kevin Colden) was originally planned as the prologue to a 200-page graphic novel, but that never happened. I’ve lived with those pages for over two years and as much as I tried moving on to writing other projects, SCHMUCK [...]
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This weeks featured song on the Trip City Podcast is “Hotel Room” from the band Swinger Eight. Swinger Eight is a psychedelic rock band from Brooklyn consisting of Chris Miskiewicz, Christopher Medrano, and Ozzie Martinez, with Patrick Murdoch and Chris Fort. S8 has released “The Swinger Eight EP” (2002) from which the track “On and On” [...]
The Devil You Know
Yes, shame on you, Facebook and Google, this is bad business practice and “data aggregation” is just plain lazy. You can’t really/truly know a person or potential client/worker/boss/lover/criminal/hero/etc., based on their online behavior; translated into numbers. Besides, there is so much complaining happening in these social networks, the math of it all paints one big, [...]
ACT-I-VATE Turns 6-years old!
Happy Sixth Anniversary, ACT-I-VATE! ACT-I-VATE, the premiere webcomix collective conceived by Dean Haspiel, debuted February 1st, 2006, on the blogging platform, Livejournal, and featured the works of founding members Dean Haspiel, Dan Goldman, Nick Bertozzi, Michel Fiffe, Leland Purvis, Nikki Cook, Tim Hamilton, and Josh Neufeld. Since then, the curated collective has expanded by hand-picking [...]
Dean Haspiel’s COMICS STORYTELLING WORKSHOP INTENSIVE
Okay, I’m biting the bullet and going to teach a storytelling workshop at MOCCA. From super hero to super personal, this is a class that will teach artists and writers how to think and show a story in sequential pictures. Come one, come all. COMICS STORYTELLING WORKSHOP INTENSIVE Instructor: DEAN HASPIEL One Session: TUESDAY, April [...]
MAKE SKATEBOARDS @ OUTSIDER ART FAIR, NYC
MAKE Skateboards, a fantastic combination of fine-art and street-style, will be setting up shop at the Outsider Art Fair on Thursday evening, January 26 through Sunday, January 29, 2012. MAKE will be presenting a four-day look at self-taught artists such as Ike Morgan, Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Rev. George Korneay, and Artist Chuckie Williams. MAKE [...]
LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: The Origins of American Comics coming May 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: powerHouse Books is pleased to announce the May 2012 release of LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: The Origins of American Comics Photographs by Seth Kushner Text and interviews by Christopher Irving Design by Eric Skillman Some are mild mannered geeks, others mad geniuses or street-smart city dwellers driven to action. These are the men [...]
Tim O’Shea Talks Mush! at Robot6!
Robot 6, one of the blogs over at Comic Book Resources, has a regular feature by Tim O’Shea called Talking Comics with Tim. In the latest installment, Tim talks to Glenn Eichler and Joe Infurnari about MUSH! Sled Dogs with Issues. More interview than review, it’s an interesting piece and I encourage you all to [...]
Michel Fiffe’s ZEGAS #2
In the age of the artist-entrepreneur where certain legislation’s are trying to negatively change the way we consume and share, please consider donating to ZEGAS #2, an intimate project by artist/writer, Michel Fiffe, and get something you can hold in your hands, read, and “feel” besides the plastic shell casings of your phones and laptops. [...]
Gonad Origins
[Deathwart, Gonad's arch-nemesis, design by Blake Sims] I created Gonad the Ballbarian when I was 14 or so. I remember drawing him a few times, but I can’t be sure about my exact age. Coulda been younger, coulda been older. I know I was into Sergio Aragones’ Groo, and had watched Conan the King on [...]
SWINGER EIGHT: “HOTEL ROOM”
The Dean Haspiel Art Gallery
TRIP CITY presents the Dean Haspiel Art Gallery, featuring recent works and some career highlights.
Warren Peace Sings the Blues on ‘The Last Romantic Antihero’
Matt Brady at Warren Peace Sings the Blues reviews “The Last Romantic Antihero.” Here is an excerpt: “It’s lovely work, the kind of comic that invites immersion and interpretation, lingering in the subconscious and grabbing hold of universal emotions to add resonance to conflicts shared among all of humanity. This seems like the most personal [...]
