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Update, October 2009

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:58:34 +0000

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…

A beautiful failure ;)

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:25:57 +0000

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!

Tonight’s the night…

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:43:19 +0000

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.

As reported earlier, my own Astoria single Resistansen is among the four fine outings, which also count Philip Ytournel, Ida Kvetny and Christian Skovgaard.

With the exception of London resident Skovgaard, all us four authors will be present at the show held @ trashionable CMYK kld gallery in Copenhagen. So come, drink, chat, buy!

And here’s why I’m such a jerk: the show is tonight, Friday June 26th. That means of course that even those of you in the area probably can’t make it, but we appreciate any effort

The show is 8 in the PM. First half hour = free beer. Come meet Stupid and his way cooler friends!

676 Release, 8pm June 26th. CMYK kld Gallery, Jægersborggade 51

MoCCA update

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:58:30 +0000

Safely home from New York, now. Still jetlagged to the point of falling asleep on the couch earlier than usual

Immediate reactions were very positive to Black Sabbath single and Mix Tape alike, and prospect publishers didn’t turn down the outline at first glance. I guess we’re good for a second date …

Blogging has been sporadic as both my iPhone blog apps have defected, literally. In NY I mistakenly thought it was just bad WiFi, but now it seems it’s a software problem of some kind :/

Posting this thru Ping FM, hope that works out. Otherwise, we’ll always have Twitter :/

Final Black Sabbath touches

Allan Haverholm — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:16:53 +0000

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

Allan Haverholm — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:48:58 +0000

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

Allan Haverholm — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:55:57 +0000

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!

No sleep ’til MoCCA

Allan Haverholm — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:40:39 +0000

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.

I do love a challenge, and the pressure of a deadline, but already the prospect of not sleeping for a week is wearing me out.

Above and below are a couple of snapshots of the track I am currently working on, Engine City. It’s a tribute to Jack Kirby, and to the industrial substandard of 1970’s floppy magazines …

Not your SPX

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:35:24 +0000

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.

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.