Out and home again

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:42:39 +0000

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.

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

The sound of comics (clapping)

Allan Haverholm — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:54:51 +0000

I dare think we have established the concept of Astoria by now (and for those who came in late, see the “About” page) but there’s still one important part of the project we haven’t touched upon yet. As a further twist on the music-translated-into-comics concept, there is now being made a soundtrack to the book!

Astoria will be put into music by one of the most gifted young musicians I know, singer of up and coming Danish thrashcore band Angrified, my own brother Martin “Martincore” Haverholm. The family tie is really just a convenient means of extortion (“If you don’t finish that demo on time, I’ll tell mom!”), I don’t think it would be possible to find a more fitting collaboration outside my family

Martin is as committed to rock as I am to visual narrative, and about as prone to experimentation in his chosen medium. Also, we share much of the same tastes in music, which is why he has been given free reins in converting Astoria into sound.

Like the graphic album, Astoria: the Soundtrack will consist of thirteen songs that closely correspond to the comic counterparts. The musical material is intended to be pressed in vinyl and ship as an integrated part of the book, stressing again the close relationship between music and visuals in this project.

Martin is now officially a co-author of the production blog, and will soon post demos and news about his work progress and inspirations. Unless he’s out touring with his little band …

Mo-o-om!!

Photos: Jesper Bolo Petersen

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Out and home again

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