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Brooklyn Bridge art show @Urban Folk Art Gallery

by Dean Haspiel

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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Cinco de Sandra

by Guest Contributor

On the first warm weekend in May, the streets were busy in Washington DC’s Dupont Circle, an artsy roundel that leads north from the White House and mall area. Loungers at Dupont’s fountain flipped through paperbacks and smoothed sun dresses a stone’s throw from several local bookshops presenting a collage of the local arts scene: [...]

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Snow Angel

by Dean Haspiel

A few years ago, I was contacted by award winning writer Mat Johnson, best known for his Vertigo graphic novels Incognegro, and Dark Rain, and he recently wrote the critically acclaimed novel, Pym. Mat asked me to take part in a collaboration for a comix writing course he was teaching at The University of Houston [...]

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Dean Haspiel at Atlantic Center for the Arts: Oct 8 – 28

by Dean Haspiel

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

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GOD

by Dean Haspiel

I don’t believe in God. Never did. I’m 44 years old now. By the time I’m 50 I hope to be able to impart some kind of wisdom from my life experiences. I hope I have something more to say than I already have. I don’t believe in God but believing in something; people, art, [...]

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SCHMUCK YOU!: Your Schmuckiest Story CONTEST

by Seth Kushner

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 [...]

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ALONG WITH CLAIRE featuring Dean Haspiel

by Dean Haspiel

The debut episode of Along with Claire video interviews Dean Haspiel about TRIP CITY and the digital age of self-publishing.

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5 Comix Q’s for Dean Haspiel

by Dean Haspiel

A 12-year-old girl interviewed me about what it’s like to be a cartoonist, as an assignment for her class: 1. Did you have an idol or someone you inspired to be like when you were growing up? I’ve had many idols throughout the years but, in terms of comic books, I’d have to pick Jack [...]

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TRIP CITY at MoCCA Fest 2012

by Dean Haspiel

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 [...]

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Emmy Award Winning Pencil Shavings by Comic Artist Dean Haspiel

by 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 [...]

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Harvey Pekar’s CLEVELAND/Tribute at The Strand, April 25th

by Dean Haspiel

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 [...]

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ANATOMY OF AN AMERICAN SPLENDOR COVER

by Dean Haspiel

In the summer of 2008, I was hired by a collections editor at DC Comics to draw the cover to Harvey Pekar’s second AMERICAN SPLENDOR collection, originally published by Vertigo as a mini-series, which featured stories drawn by me and various other artists. The first collection was titled “Another Day,” and the second one was [...]

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