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FRANK READE – The Atlantic…and beyond!

Early reports about FRANK READE: Adventures in the Age of Invention are all glowingly positive!

Publishers Weekly calls it “a stunning multimedia confection of the highest order that creates a detailed and delightful world.”

The Atlantic, that’s right, THE ATLANTIC, describes it as “meticulously crafted.”

A terrific interview with authors Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett can be found at the Portland Examiner.

Are you ready for the Frank Reade Land Sea and Air book tour?

Boilerplate BROADCAST

Before cable or the intertubes, a thing called “broadcast television” dominated video viewing. Since Boilerplate is retro, it’s appropriate that the first major video interview with the Victorian robot’s creator Paul Guinan, and co-author Anina Bennett, was televised over the airwaves–old school! Outlook Portland with Rick Emerson is a Sunday morning chat show on channel 32, and the YouTube version is now available for those who weren’t up early enough or who live outside the broadcast area. It’s in four segments, each about six minutes, 24 minutes total. Don’t miss the end, where we surprise the host with a gift and leave him nearly speechless.

PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR

Also, in case you missed it, here is an entertainment show’s 90-second announcement about the Boilerplate movie.

And have you seen the short trailer Paul made for the Boilerplate book?
He’s very proud of it.

David Hahn’s ALL NIGHTER for FREE!

David Hahn's ALL NIGHTERImage Comics is soliciting David Hahn’s ALL NIGHTER, a 145-page graphic novel about punk rocker and petty thief Kit Bradley, whose life is complicated by the reemergence of a former lover and the disappearance of a girlfriend.

David’s art and storytelling are stellar in this book, but don’t take our word for it! Comics Alliance has the entire first issue for you to read, along with an interview with David about the book. Or you can download a pdf of the entire first issue at David’s site.

Here’s the Diamond solicitation:
ALL NIGHTER #1
Part One: STEALING COINS Kit Bradley is a 20 year-old art student and petty criminal who knows it’s time to leave her delinquent past behind, but isn’t ready for the responsibilities of adulthood. Her social headquarters is an all night diner, and while trying to put the off on an on-again-off-again boyfriend, she runs into an old flame, and an enigmatic loner named Martha, who alters Kit’s life forever. Created by Eisner and Ignatz Award nominee DAVID HAHN.
Diamond order code: APR110398

Ron Chan Interview at MTV news.

Ron Chan talks to MTV News about his work with Felicia Day, Morgan Spurlock, and more.

Periscope on OPB: Here’s the video!

Oregon Public Broadcasting has put the entire Art Beat segment featuring Periscope Studio online. It focuses on Erika Moen and Ron Randall, but just about everyone gets camera time. It’s a fine, accurate picture of the place, and we couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. Big thanks to Katrina Sarson for making it happen.

If the embedded video isn’t visible, it’s viewable at http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/segments/view/866

Ben Bates, SHOOT FIRST

“I remember thinking about the conflict of physically fighting something you don’t believe in and wondering exactly how that works out.”
Chris Arrant talks to Justin Aclin and Ben Bates at Newsarama about their Dark Horse Presents story SHOOT FIRST.

Colleen Coover answers some questions

Q: If you weren’t an artist what would you want to do for work?

A: A year ago I would have said go mad and live off the dole, because I can’t do anything else. But now I think I would be a writer, as I realize there’s a lot of storytelling I could do that I don’t get to do in my illustration work.

Read it all at David Wasting Paper.

Erika Moen interview

Erika Moen was interviewed at Emerald City Comicon by the folks at Sutmptown Trade Review.

The audio is at their site.

KBOO! Halloween hoax?

Portland’s KBOO radio broadcasted an interview and reading from Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel the other day. Missed it? That’s OK, you can listen to the half-hour program at the station’s archives.

The authors and interviewer presented the program as if the Victorian robot were real, and got a couple of angry calls…

Orson's broadcast ironically caps Campion's story in the Boilerplate book.

Orson's broadcast ironically caps Campion's story in the Boilerplate book.

Boilerplate steams up Seattle

Paul Guinan is Guest of Honor at STEAMCON this weekend.

The folks at Seattle Geekly interviewed Paul and Anina about the Victorian robot Boilerplate, and steampunk in general, for their October 15 episode.
LISTEN TO IT HERE. Paul & Anina start babbling about 45 minutes into the program.