The Astoria Sessions » #demo

Not Mike Royer :(

Allan Haverholm — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:34:44 +0000

Here’s a few samples of today’s inking session on Engine City.

The vigil observer will notice that I’ve focused on the characters in most panels/spreads. True, I started with the fun part

Falling to pieces

Allan Haverholm — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:56:10 +0000

It’s a week before I’m leaving for MoCCA’s Art Fest, and the material for the singles isn’t done yet by a long stretch. Head is literally spinning with stress.

Don’t worry though, the book(s) will be out. Printers work fast these days

First single out for MoCCA!

Allan Haverholm — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:29:17 +0000

The first single for the Astoria album is coming out in time for the MoCCA Art Fest on June 6th-7th.

The single outing will be Resistansen, a song by Norwegian Kaizer’s Orchestra covered for the first time in comic form!

It is a tale of death, lust and delirium in the port city of Bergen sometime in between World Wars, released by discerning Danish “small press, big effect” publisher Aben Maler.

The Resistansen single is published as part of Aben Maler’s 676 spring collection. The 676 series of standalone books are all 13×13 cm, 24 pages, black and white publications with two-color covers.

Also out in time for MoCCA is From Wonderland With Love, an anthology featuring the best new comics out of Denmark in recent years, including Astoria visual artist Allan Haverholm.

From Wonderland… is co-published by Aben Maler and Fantagraphics Books.

Demo in session

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:28:35 +0000

I am negotiating a possible demo release of Astoria to be published in time for MoCCA. No details as yet about format.

Will return with more announcements here!

Loss for Words

Allan Haverholm — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:30:31 +0000

As you can see from recent posts, I am trying to elaborate on the basic descriptions of songs in “abstracts” that should give a more in-depth sense of the individual concepts.

Without making excuses for myself or my general pace, I’m finding it very hard to put into words what I’m working on. Currently, I am in the middle of evolving the visuals and semantics of several installments at a time; Engine City is still a little unrefined, whereas Cerebration is more or less good to go, and Passion is more or less a shambles.

When I first started developing the Astoria project, I was taking almost entirely written notes, researching and conceptualizing as much as I could beforehand, as I wanted a sound basis for the work in advance of what I considered (an consider) the actual work. Over the last six months, the bucket has turned.

Since I started drafting on Astoria in September, I have gone on to work with thumbnails and sketches alone, adding new elements more intuitively (although based on my thorough conceptual documents) and all the time stretching myself to avoid repetition or derivation.

And often I stretch out of language. And then I sit down and try to write my abstract … So forgive me if I’m slow in typing up these abstracts; I will get through the pile, but I don’t speak words much anymore. It’s an occupational hazard, and one I can fortunately (?) only afford for a brief period while I finish Astoria.