"The Year of Loving Dangerously" Details!
So here's the scoop on my upcoming graphic novel, er, graphic memoir. Some basic details:
Writing: Ted Rall
Artwork: Pablo G. Callejo
Introduction: Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker
Cover Design: Mikhaela B. Reid
Length: 128 pages
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2009
If You Want Them First: Buy From Me at Small Press Expo in Maryland in late September
This takes place in 1984-85, when I was expelled, dumped, arrested, fired and evicted. When the economy goes sour, or when your luck turns bad, these things can happen. Young, confused, and broke, I wound up on the mean streets of Reagan-era New York with eight bucks in my pocket and very few options...well, none. So I made do.
I've already posted some samples pages of artwork here, and will do a few more in the coming days and weeks, but to see the whole thing together is truly remarkable. I'm very excited about this book, albeit a bit scared because I've exposed so much of my personal life. I'm usually a very private person, for obvious reasons.
Anyway, I do hope you'll buy it. My plea especially goes to those who read my comics and columns online...in the Internet age, books are literally the ONLY way artists like me get paid. If you don't buy this book, it'll make it harder for me to put out more books in the future. Besides, it's really good. Alison Bechdel thinks so!
Writing: Ted Rall
Artwork: Pablo G. Callejo
Introduction: Xaviera Hollander, author of The Happy Hooker
Cover Design: Mikhaela B. Reid
Length: 128 pages
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: Oct. 15, 2009
If You Want Them First: Buy From Me at Small Press Expo in Maryland in late September
This takes place in 1984-85, when I was expelled, dumped, arrested, fired and evicted. When the economy goes sour, or when your luck turns bad, these things can happen. Young, confused, and broke, I wound up on the mean streets of Reagan-era New York with eight bucks in my pocket and very few options...well, none. So I made do.
I've already posted some samples pages of artwork here, and will do a few more in the coming days and weeks, but to see the whole thing together is truly remarkable. I'm very excited about this book, albeit a bit scared because I've exposed so much of my personal life. I'm usually a very private person, for obvious reasons.
Anyway, I do hope you'll buy it. My plea especially goes to those who read my comics and columns online...in the Internet age, books are literally the ONLY way artists like me get paid. If you don't buy this book, it'll make it harder for me to put out more books in the future. Besides, it's really good. Alison Bechdel thinks so!
posted by Ted Rall at
4:12 PM
9 Comments:
Cheers, man. Excited for this to be released. Cool artwork and what sounds to be a compelling story. Wish you good luck with it.
Can't wait to read this. On the radio show you you once told a story about breaking into an ex-girlfriends dorm in Columbia and dialing time in Tokyo while she was away.
I know first hand what being destitute in the Big Apple can do to ones dignity.
Quote: "...I've exposed so much of my personal life. I'm usually a very private person..."
From Ted's earlier books, during an earlier incarnation, when he was a very angry young man, angry as hell at his father (and by extension, it seemed, ALL men who were fathers), I don't see the "usually private person." Perhaps this refers to more current times, when people with differing opinions and ideologies are now flagrantly calling a President a liar in front of Congress and the world (would they had called George W. Bush a bald-faced liar during all of HIS speeches!) Is the present more frightening that the past, regarding sharing personal information?
(would they had called George W. Bush a bald-faced liar during all of HIS speeches!)
Now we are going to be lectured by the left on proper decorum. This after 8 years of assassination chic.
But hey, if it makes you feel better, here are some boos during the SotU address.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/09/10/flashback_democrats_boo_bush_at_2005_state_of_the_union.html
BTW Obama did lie.
I bet this is going to be good, Ted.
I don't generally buy books, but I'll request that my local library get one so the whole city can enjoy it! According to the American Library Association, there's 122,356 libraries in the country. If each one buys a copy, that's a good start for your sells, right? And it's socialism at work!
Damn. Sounds good. I still love to hate that motherfucker Reagan. I think his main achievement, to quote a friend of mine, was that "he made racism fashionable again for right wing whites". They've never gone back since that brain-dead father-sucker.
I'll buy!
Frankly, given current economic times this is probably good reading along with "Boy scout" and "Survivalist" stuff... I'm planning on budgeting for a KORG keyboard, but I have my backpack handy and can play the Harmonica also!
Xaviera is a scoop for the win, Ted.
"Sells" should have been "sales."
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