Derek's Consolidated Self-Promotion Log
I haven't been very good at keeping up any of the different project logs I've started here and there, so I thought I might as well get a clue and just put all work-related shit into one log. So here's something cool:
The St. Louis Repertory Theatre announces its Ignite! festival, featuring the first public workshop reading of Stagger Lee, a musical based on teh GN of the same name, adapted by Derek McCulloch, Stew, and Heidi Rodewald.
The St. Louis Repertory Theatre announces its Ignite! festival, featuring the first public workshop reading of Stagger Lee, a musical based on teh GN of the same name, adapted by Derek McCulloch, Stew, and Heidi Rodewald.
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In other news, all of y'all should see what Peruzzo's doing with Displaced Persons. He's going to put himself on the map with this book.
"GONE TO AMERIKAY is not just a great book, it's an important book. In a
marketplace where every season brings another supposed Big Event, this
is the real deal. It uses the immigrant experience to talk about us,
who we are, how and why we came here, with some echoes of where we might
be going. The art is superb, containing some of the best and most
evocative images of the period you're ever going to see, and the story
is wide in scope but intimate in its details as it flashes forward and
backward in time. Forget the hype, this is going to be THE book of
2012."—J. Michael Straczynski (SUPERMAN:YEAR ONE, BABYLON FIVE,
CHANGELING)
“Gone To Amerikay’s a wonderful story, lushly illustrated, full of music and
passion, twists and turns, beautifully evoking the Irish immigrant
experience in three different times and sewing them all together
brilliantly at the end. A real treat, for those who love New York
history, or just a great story.”
— Kevin Baker
(Paradise Alley, Dreamland, LUNA PARK)
And my personal favourite:
“Ghost story or detective fiction? History or mythology? Drawing on the
freewheeling spirit of Irish and Irish-American popular culture, Gone
To Amerikay is all of these. A tale that takes place simultaneously in
1870, 1960 and 2010, it recognizes that though enormous changes have
taken place over time in the relationship between the New World and the
Old Country, some things, like love, justice and respect, are timeless
and imperative. With thrilling illustrations, rich with the color
and mood of these passions, you will find yourself unable to avoid
lingering at length on them before picking up the story again.”
— Philip Chevron
The Pogues
It was Philip's magnificent
song "Thousands Are Sailing" that directly inspired this book, and
having his endorsement on the dust jacket is an unspeakable thrill.
Also, he totally missed a calling in product marketing, I think.
Me, Shepherd Hendrix, Erik Larsen, and Jimmie at the CBLDF signing in December 07.
Shep, Gene Yang, the late Rory Root, me, and Steve Leialoha at the local Eisner nominees' party in August 2007.
(Photo by Branwyn Bigglestone)
Do you ALWAYS wear black?
oh and i like the stach in pic one. It oddly makes you look Hispanic.
And Greg saved up his pennies and bought his own jacket, I guess. I think he's wearing jeans with it.