The Astoria Sessions » Mix Tape http://astoria-book.net the making of a graphic rock album Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:58:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A beautiful failure ;) http://astoria-book.net/astoria/178 http://astoria-book.net/astoria/178#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:25:57 +0000 Allan Haverholm http://astoria-book.net/astoria/178 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!

]]> http://astoria-book.net/astoria/178/feed 0 Out and home again http://astoria-book.net/astoria/170 http://astoria-book.net/astoria/170#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:42:39 +0000 Allan Haverholm http://astoria-book.net/astoria/170 image774569798.jpgIt’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.

Generally, immediate reactions were great to my water-colored Sabbath interpretation, which I’d managed to print, assemble and trim by myself late Wednesday night before leaving for NY.

Also, Danish publisher Aben Maler had an early start on their latest collection of 676 booklets and, as mentioned earlier, my Resistansen is one of them.

Resistansen doubles as a single off the Astoria album, but unfortunately the size is a couple inches too small to count as a single proper. Of course, the main attraction was From Wonderland With Love, the Fantagraphics anthology of Danish comics I am also part of.

A big, beautifully flexibound book, Wonderland features a lot of my personal favorites in the Danish comic field, and a few that I look up to as well. It couldn’t have pleased me more to be signing our book on Sunday at the Fanta table.

I’m posting all this in hindsight because A) there was no WIFI at the 69th Armory where the festival took place and B) the WP iPhone app that I’ve used to post here went belly-up, and I mistakenly thought it meant the hostel WIFI was b0rked, too.

All in all a great MoCCA for me, but I realize it’s been pretty lame for those who have been waiting for news from me. Don’t worry, I found a replacement for the bust blogging app ;)

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]


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