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| What’s Happening at Graphic Classics —
May 2008 • Our Free Comic Book Day offering was a popular sucess, with 24,500 copies given away at comics shops across the U.S. and other countries. If you missed this opportunity, don't despair! For a limited time, you can get a copy of Graphic Classics: Special Edition FREE with the purchase of any regular Graphic Classics volume. See our SPECIAL OFFERS page.
• Thanks to the creators of Graphic Classics: Special Edition who signed copies of the book in appearances at comics stores on Free Comic Book Day: • Anne Timmons, artist for Mary Shelley’s “The Dream” signed copies and did sketches for attendees at Excalibur Comics, Portland Oregon. Here is a photo kindly submitted by Aaron Albert, from the About.com site. Aaron will soon be doing an online interview with Anne about her work on Graphic Classics, GoGirl!, and her many other projects.
Anne Timmons ©2000 Aaron Albert • Gerry Alanguilan, cover artist, and artist for Poe’s “The Black Cat” appeared at Comic Odyssey in Robinson’s Galleria, Manila, Philippines. The event drew over 500 visitors, with Gerry signing 250 free copies of Graphic Classics: Special Edition, as well as his Elmer and other books. It was webcast live on Azrael Coladilla's fansite Azrael's Merryland. Thanks, Azrael!
Gerry Alanguilan ©2008 Azrael Coladilla • Antonella Caputo, who adapted Mary Shelley’s “The Dream” appeared at First Age Comics, Lancaster, England, and says she had “a very jolly good time!” Antonella also recently lectured at Lancaster & Morecambe College on writing for comics, and plans to expand on that subject on the Team Sputnik blog.
Antonella Caputo at Lancaster & Morecambe College Poe in Comics Exhibit — • If you are in the Richmond, Virginia area from now through October, be sure and visit the Edgar Allan Poe Museum to see the Poe in Comics exhibit. Works from more than sixty years of Poe adaptations are being shown, including those from GC contributors Rick Geary, Richard Corben and Gahan Wilson. The exhibit catalogue features Skot Olsen's painting “Annabel Lee”, which first appeared on the cover of the out-of-print second edition of Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe. If you would like a copy of the catalogue, you can purchase from our SPECIAL OFFERS page.
GC Interview — • A recent interview with GC editor and publisher Tom Pomplun is now online at the Comics in the Classroom website. |
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Coming August 2008
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• Coming soon: • August will see the release of a new edition of the long-out-of-print Graphic Classics: Ambrose Bierce. The book will be greatly revised, with 70 new pages including new comics adaptations of “Moxon's Master”, “The Damned Thing” and “The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter”. Returning from the first edition are “The Stranger” and four other tales, plus a collection of 20 short fables illustrated by Dan O'Neill, Shary Flenniken, Florence Cestac, Johnny Ryan and more great artists. With a stunning cover illustration by Steven Cerio. • And coming in December will be the all-new Graphic Classics: Oscar Wilde. The book will feature an adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by British writer Alex Burrows and GC regular Lisa K. Weber. Also "The Canterville Ghost" by Antonella Caputo and Nick Miller, "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Rich Rainey and Rich Tommaso, and an adaptation of Wilde's play "Salome" by Tom Pomplun and GC newcomer Molly Kiely. |
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