posted by Allan Haverholm on Jul 18

There is understandable confusion about the nature of the Astoria project after the first two singles have come out:

Although both Resistansen and Black Sabbath (intro) are based on existing songs, the remaining eleven projected songs will be all original material. I hope this clears things up.

Next single out may be These Fjell Veins or Cerebration, depending on which is completed first. You’ll see it here first!

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

It’s been a fun few weeks, MoCCA coming and going, the whole NY experience and all.

I managed to have the Black Sabbath single done for the festival, plus a similar-format outline of the entire project. The latter may be up on the site as a PDF in a few days.
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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.