Rusted
REBUILT: Redefining the Spaces That Define Us
Feb 24th
Quick reminder, NYC-area comic fans – Tonight I’ll be signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe NYC for today’s release of Popgun Volume 4! The anthology features Rusted: Faded Signal, the first of a series of interconnected shorts written by yours truly and illustrated by the inimitable Alex Eckman-Lawn. We finished this particular story last May so we’re both PUMPED to see it out today.
Sadly, Alex won’t be able to make the signing today. We’ve got all sorts of nasty weather that came through yesterday and is coming through later in the week, which means Alex has to finish up work on his solo gallery debut.
WHAT?! Solo gallery show?!
Fuck yes. Cool people (that’s you) in the Philly or NYC-area, (or anywhere commutable to Philly) need to get out next Friday night, March 5th, from 6-9pm to check out the show. Info to follow after the invite:
REBUILT: Redifining the Spaces That Define Us
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2434 East Dauphin Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19125
Hope to see some of you tonight at Jim Hanley’s and more of you next week at the opening. Because you’re awesome. And we love you.
Let’s Go Exploring
Jan 14th
First some exciting announcements!
Item the first! Two exciting events, particularly for those in the NYC area, celebrating the release of Popgun Vol. 4 (featuring a short written by me and illustrated by Alex, Rusted: Faded Signal). On February 16th @ 8PM, come check out The Comic Book Club, a weekly live show at The Pit, where I’ll be hanging out with Popgun editor Adam Knave and writer Vito Delsante. We’ll be whoring ourselves out and laughing it up so come hang out and have a blast!
Tuesday, February 16th @ 8:00 PM
Tickets: $5
Online: ThePIT-NYC.com
Phone: 1-800-838-3006
Questions? 212-563-7488
The Peoples Improv Theater
154 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
Between 6th and 7th Aves.
Check out the website:
http://www.popcultureshock.com/comicbookclub
The second event is a Popgun signing extravaganza on February 24th, from 6-8pm at Jim Hanley’s Universe, with Alex Eckman-Lawn, Frank Stockton, Jeff Powell, Jason Ibarra, Vito Delsante, and Joe Flood! Come by and meet some awesome creators, grab a copy of the new Popgun released that day, and hey, maybe grab a copy of Awakening Volume One if you haven’t already (wag of the finger) or get yours signed if you already have it (tip of the hat)!
Item the Second! We just received an extremely flattering review courtesy of The San Francisco Book Review (we’re on page 12), who said “[Awakening is] near, if not at, the pinnacle of the best execution of a zombie graphic novel. It breathes death into the dead fad, and somehow, in contradiction, brings it back to life by doing so! Trust me on this.” In honor of such heaping kindnesses, I can’t resist putting up a couple of new pages from Awakening Volume Two. Alex is going crazy on this book. Bask in his glory:
The other day, feeling a little burnt out on a new something I’d been smashing away at for the past few weeks, I doubled back and finished a short story that had been sitting in a drawer, waiting to be scritched and scratched with my red pen of justice. I finished it with gusto.
The new something in question was making me a bit uncomfortable, not because of what it was about but because it was unfamiliar territory. I needed to re-orient myself, find a touch stone I recognized, a street corner near home. After looking back over my shoulder and seeing home I was ready to move forward. I was reminded of one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips. Might’ve been the last one, actually. A fresh snow had just fallen and the world was unrecognizable, full of possibilities. Calvin looked at Hobbes and said,
“It’s a magical world, Hobbes old buddy. Let’s go exploring”
So it is. Let’s go.
Go For Launch
Dec 11th
Welcome to the All New! All Different! NickTapalansky.com!
Well folks, it finally happened – the site is up, running, and full of awesome. I’ve spent the last two years updating upwards of three blogs (two on MySpace, one on Blogger) and at some point recently I realized, hey now, that’s a bit silly. For those of you wondering why those hotspots of the interweb haven’t been updated in over a month, this site is why. This is going to be your one-stop shop complete with all sorts of pretty cool stuff to check out, like:
- Full chapters and Behind The Scenes artwork from Awakening Volume One and Volume Two – just check out the Awakening Section in Comixography.
- Previews of upcoming stories, like Rusted: Faded Signal and Perhapanauts: A Grim’s Haunt, also in the Comixography.
- Some of my scripts, for the curious, over in the Scripts section.
- There’s even a Trailers section which, right now, is housing the trailer for Awakening Volume One!
And all this stuff is just the beginning – I’ll be updating more regularly here, including new comic previews as I have them and more Behind The Scenes stuff.
Update those bookmarks, kids – it’s about to get exciting. To keep up with all my in the moment musings and site updates, why don’t you go ahead and give me a Follow on Twitter too. I’ll do my level best to keep it interesting for you.
Thanks for popping in – be sure to tell all your pals where the party’s at.
- Nick
