p.s. lots of stuff needs messaging--esp'ly the lettering. I was going for a sort of late Kirby script on the title. Trying to find a sweet spot between Milt Caniff, Daniel Clowes and Raymond Pettibon...(good luck on that)
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Small Format Comic Proposal
p.s. lots of stuff needs messaging--esp'ly the lettering. I was going for a sort of late Kirby script on the title. Trying to find a sweet spot between Milt Caniff, Daniel Clowes and Raymond Pettibon...(good luck on that)
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Exactly what is a 33.3 book? When I google it there seem to be a lot of hits, but no comprehensive explanation of what 33.3 is. I depend on there always being a Wikipedia entry, "33.3 is...". Is it a format, is it a publisher? Is it one-third the size of a "regular" book?
As always, awesome work Marty. How many WIP's do you have these days and what are they? When will we see more of them?
I like that cover. It reminds me of an Eisner PM magazine kind of sensibility.
Let me check on this before I make the comment.Yep. I have this book.
LOUD 3D
Good 3D and Black Flag is the first band listed on the back cover.
Tom! El!
El, thanks for the link. Just a clarification, this is page one, the "splash page," not the cover.
The book series 33 and 1/3 has been around for years now, churning out titles all the time. Each book represents one writer's take on a single album. In my case that's Black Flag's "Damaged," but there's a book on The Beatles "White Album," one on the Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers," etc., etc.
The books are physically small, (about 4"x5" a page), so I'd go with no more than one or two panels per page. Kinda like Rick Geary's Victorian Murder series--but even smaller.
Thanks for the kind words. Getting this together was a super-rush job: they wanted the first chapter included in yr book proposal, and I just wasn't ready to create the whole thing--had to drop 1/2 of my pages (couldn't get 'em done in time), and what I had made little sense (doh!).
On the plus side, some music industry friends were so psych'ed when they heard about the idea, they said I have to do the whole thing as a stand alone series--maybe the whole history of Black Flag--maybe even a whole, "Tale Of American Punk Rock" series. Could be cool....
(p.s. The BEST 33.3 I've read is John Darnielle's opus dedicated to Black Sabbath's "Master of Reality": I was never into Sabbath, but the book is quite brilliant as a BOOK, independent of yr views on the music (it's written in the form of a teenager's Psych Ward journal the Drs. are forcing him to fill out everyday--it ends up being really moving, and it totally gets at the heart of what's important about music).)
The font is really nice too.
Cool, interesting detail about the creation of this album. I look forward to reading the story.
I look forward to making it readable.
So this is sort of like what we used to call a Mini Comic?
Where does one purchase such tomes?
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