posted by Allan Haverholm on Oct 2

A quick note to let you know that the Astoria Sessions is still active, although hibernated during summer. There has been moving of workspaces, financial crises (oh, you noticed?), and general summertime laziness blocking productivity, but we’re getting back in the groove…

posted by Allan Haverholm on Jul 14

The Astoria demos (and Mix Tape, too) have been reviewed by Derik Badman over on his Madinkbeard blog. He seems to like them a lot!

EDIT: To wet your apetites a bit more, here’s a few pull quotes from Derik’s piece:

“All in all [Astoria is] a hugely ambitious project, one that will either end in genius or brilliant failure.”

“Haverholm’s success with the watercolors in “Black Sabbath (intro)” and the pencils in “Resistansen” give me confidence that the other Astoria multimedia works will also prove visually evocative.”

Now scoot on over and peruse the analytical beauty that is Madinkbeard!

posted by Allan Haverholm on Jun 26

Ohh… Idiot!

Not you, me. In the fracas after MoCCA I completely forgot to announce the release party for the latest collection of 676-books from Aben Maler publishing.
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posted by Allan Haverholm on Jun 12

Safely home from New York, now. Still jetlagged to the point of falling asleep on the couch earlier than usual
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posted by Allan Haverholm on Jun 1

I’ll be doing some last-minute corrections to a couple of Black Sabbath spreads that were sticking out.
Then scanning, assembling final pdf and crossing all crossable digits that the printer is *real fast*
ELSE “Sabbath@MoCCA”=FALSE

posted by Allan Haverholm on May 31

Rumors of single not coming out for MoCCA were grossly exaggerated. Still crossing fingers for printers to come through though!

posted by Allan Haverholm on May 28

Working ass off on Engine City in way overdue prep for MoCCA. Alas, inks are a far cry from Mike Royer’s. Previews up later!

posted by Allan Haverholm on May 25

So starting today I have 12 days to finish three works in progress, prepare them for print, get them back from the printer, and drag them to New York for MoCCA’s Art Fest.
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posted by Allan Haverholm on Apr 21

Astoria creator Allan Haverholm will be at Stockholm’s own SPX festival this weekend, April 25th thru 26th.

He will bring some uncommiting Astoria sketches, hoping to garner some preliminary interest in the project.

Allan will have booth duties with C’est Bon Kultur both days.

posted by Allan Haverholm on Apr 19

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.