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graphicpolicy · 7 days

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Exclusive: Essentials' Snuggles puppet revealed!

Exclusive: Essentials' Snuggles puppet revealed! #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Luke Arnold and Chris “Doc” Wyatt are co-writing an all-new graphic novel, Essentials. The ambitious 140-page sci-fi epic is the debut offering from The Lab Press, a new graphic novel publisher helmed by founder and CEO Nicholas Kalikow, who is joined by Editor-in-Chief Dagen Walker, Vice President of Business Development Diane Richey, and Chief Creative Officer and partner Mike…

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yojimbot13 · 7 months

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#m.k. perker #air #comic art

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contextlessfables · 8 months

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Fables #59 by Bill Willingham and M.K. Perker

#fables #bill willingham #m.k. perker

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a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives · 10 days

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‘Black Sails’ Star Luke Arnold Is Creating A Graphic Novel With A Strong Creative Compass

Though he’s had a long run as a working actor, Australian born Black Sails and INXS: Never Tear Us Apart star Luke Arnold says he’s always been a writer. He says that’s related to his favorite part of acting – figuring out the strategy for the performance more than the performance itself.

For Arnold, getting into the space to create is vital. Drama school was followed by the start of his on-screen career, but while he was still writing, he felt a truth that will resonate with many aspiring creators: “For so long you’re so desperate for a paycheck and for something to happen in your career that for so long as a young actor, it’s hard to really focus on something [else],” he says while recounting the process of trying to find time to write in between auditions and jobs.

Arnold is talking with us as he readies the launch of a Kickstarter campaign around a new, high concept graphic novel that he-co-wrote with Chris “Doc” Wyatt. The story plays with shifting realities, twisting truths, and anti-science ideas. It sound expansive and timely, deploying multiple heavy-hitter artists (including Bill Sienkiewicz, Glenn Fabry, Jason Howard, Vince Locke, Brendan McCarthy, Andrea Mutti, and M.K. Perker) in collaboration with The Lab Press. This follows his three novels with a fourth on the way.

Arnold’s writing work is the result of a careful balance that grants him the time to carve out dedicated space to write, doing it in a way that seems to not just impact the work but also reinvigorate him when a new acting role comes along. That balance has come from having worked steadily and from legit financial planning.

“I do put time aside and I know I’ve got to make the acting money last through that time. And make sure there’s enough, all the rent and bills and everything are covered while the money isn’t pouring in the same way it does when you’re on an acting job that gives you a check every week,” says Arnold.

Working in this fashion gives Arnold the ability to not be pushed into bad creative decisions by necessity, accountable to his audience more than to the business side of things. It’s a luxury, to be sure, but one that he is happy to lean into with focus and humbleness (believe me, Arnold gets how lucky he is to be able to put one career down for a moment to pick up another, mentioning it more than once).

“If you start spending so much that now you have to make all your decisions based on finances, you start making the wrong decisions, you start taking jobs you don’t want to take.” says Arnold.

The desire to chase a kind of purity with the creative process extends beyond planning and striving for dedicated time. It also factors into how he chose to pursue this specific process, turning to Kickstarter.

“It takes so many barriers away, because so much in publishing and getting books out can be about this whole network of agents and publishers to the booksellers, to the bookstores, to the people in the bookstores recommending it to readers. And that can be such a great pipeline of people, but it can also limit what people have access to,” Arnold says. “Kickstarter is a very level playing field and very creator driven. So it’s a perfect place for this whole journey to start.”

While Arnold also lauds Kickstarter’s creative community and other benefits, he acknowledges the advantage his name recognition brings, though we both agree that it may, at times, be overstated.

“I think that the’ve got to be careful how I say this. I’m sure when I get opportunities like this, some part of it is that I have have a profile from a TV show. But I think it often gets overestimated, this idea of how much of an audience will follow you between different fields and different mediums,” he says, before I co-sign the thought by reminding that there is a big difference between following someone and giving them a credit card number.

At the end of the day, while some may click because of Arnold’s run on Black Sails (the pirate epic is about to hit Netflix in full), the idea for Essentials has to win them over. It’s why we’re talking with him, to be honest. And so, to end off and share info on the Kickstarter, let’s have him make that sales pitch in his own words.

“Essentials follows Harris Pax, who was the one scientist who foresaw this inter-dimensional collision happening where our dimension collided with another. Now objective reality has become untethered. And people’s subjective realities are becoming real, the way they see the world, their fears, beliefs, ideas are manifesting around them. This was a kind-of COVID baby. This was an idea that we were forming in 2020. A lot of it is dealing with that idea of what the hell do you do when everyone is in their own little world. And we can no longer agree on some basic facts, science, the world we’re in, and how hard is it to do what Harris tries to do, which is to go into these subjective realities and try and convince the person inside that they need to come back to the real world.”

You can check out the Kickstarter for Essentials on April 17.

Source: Uproxx

#black sails #luke arnold #interview #uproxx #essentials

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libraryleopard · 1 year

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January reads

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour

Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks by Nathan Burgoine

Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Dreaming: Waking Hours by G. Willow Wilson, Nick Robles, Javier Rodriguez, M.K. Perker, and Matheus Lopes

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Slip by Marika McCoola and Aatmaja Panda

The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

The Demon in the Wood by Leigh Bardugo and Dani Pendergast

The Confessions of Frannie Langon by Sara Collins

Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey

His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler

Kindred by Octabia Butler

#have not reviewed a bunch of these but i will try to update my 2023 reads tag eventually #minus books by harpercollins until the strike is over i suppose #good reading month overall i think #2023 reads #books #lulu speaks

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dccomicsnews · 3 years

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Review: The Dreaming: Waking Hours #11

Review: THE DREAMING: WAKING HOURS #11 [Editor’s Note: This review may contain spoilers] Writer: G. Willow Wilson Artists: Nick Robles, M.K. Perker Colours: Matheus Lopes, Chris Sotomayor Letters: Simon Bowland Reviewed By: Derek McNeil Summary The Dreaming: Waking Hours #11: The time has come for a revolution in the realm of Faerie-but do Heather After and Jophiel have the power to make…

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thecomicon · 3 years

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The Faerie Queen - Previewing 'The Dreaming: Waking Hours' #10

The Faerie Queen – Previewing ‘The Dreaming: Waking Hours’ #10

Cover by: Marguerite Sauvage Written by: G. Willow Wilson Pencils: M. K. Perker, Nick Robles Coloured by: Mat Lopes “The new ruler of the Kingdom of Faerie stands revealed – and it’s…Nuala? She may be one of the most beloved characters in the Sandman mythos, but she sure does seem, uh…how shall we say this…different? And amid this chaos, what secret from Heather After’s past will re-emerge when…

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#DC Black Label #DC Comics #G. Willow Wilson #M.K. Perker #Mat Lopes #Nick Robles #The Sandman Universe #The Dreaming: Waking Hours 10

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cultfaction · 3 years

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Preview- The Dreaming: Waking Hours #10

The new ruler of the Kingdom of Faerie stands revealed—and it’s…Nuala? She may be one of the most beloved characters in the Sandman mythos, but she sure does seem, uh…how shall we say this…different? And amid this chaos, what secret from Heather After’s past will re-emerge when she needs it most? Written by G. Willow Wilson with art by Nick Robles and M.K. Perker. Cover art by Marguerite Sauvage.

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#G. Willow Wilson #M.K. Perker #Marguerite Sauvage #Nick Robles #The Dreaming #The Dreaming: Waking Hours #Waking Hours

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biggoonie · 5 years

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Air #14 by M.K. Perker

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re-readingcomics · 2 years

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Comics Read 11/26-12/3/2021

This week I read The Dreaming Waking Hours by G. Willow Wilson, Nick Robles, Javier Rodriguez, M.K. Perker, and Matheus Lopes, something that I received in my most recent comic book shipment. I loved it. I was surprised by how much I did, though I probably shouldn’t have been. I have generally enjoyed all Wilson’s writing, though that is a small selection of her total work. The Sandman Universe comics are the line that I’ve read the most of and for the longest portion of my life. There has been a fair amount of quality variation in what I have read. I think the reason I was surprised is because most of the time, I don’t like serialized stories that last decades and have multiple authors. This applies to some main stream big two comics and television. (Pandemic life has me using the web to check what’s become of fandoms I used to be part. It mostly reminds me how frustrated I got with them earlier in life.) Also, I was frustrated with the last Sandman Universe I read, in particular the Si Spurrier’s run on The Dreaming, was frequently frustrating, though I was happy to see Dora again. I only had vague memory of Nuala in Faerie, and am not entirely sure which title in which that happened. I did All in all, the earlier comics it most referenced was the Neil Gaiman run of The Sandman, particularly the stories involving Shakespeare and Dream’s imprisonment. If I have to make a complaint, it’s that Dream/Daniel here doesn’t seem distinct from original Dream, and maybe some follow up on his abdication in the Spurier run could have helped there. His recently created nightmare, Ruin, who wants to pursue love, is kind of like Dream’s brother Destruction in the effect he has on those around him, though he lacks Destruction’s sense of responsibility. As Destruction famously abandoned his realm and never came back, this new nightmare may say something about Dream’s headspace. The story wraps up, more or less, but it also left me wanting more.

The plot has essentially two acts and an interlude. The first involves a Shakespeare Scholar graduate student and new single mother named getting sucked into the Dreaming, the interlude involves getting entangled withe faeries and the second is about the actual state of the realm of Faerie. Ruin’s romantic pursuit goes through all of them. Lindy’s interest in the what the various theories about Shakespeare say about us gets reflected through Ruin’s destabilizing effects, though she only appears in the first story. Most of the art is, by Nick Robles, with Javier Rodriguez drawing the interlude issues and M.K. Perker, artist Wilson’s earlier series Air, doing flashbacks within the second act. Robles and Rodrigues are dynamo, with lots of fun and engaging spreads. Perker has always been a bit of an acquired taste for me, and I am glad that the flashbacks he did can attribute his irregularities to the subjectivity of the characters flashing back.

#The Dreaming #The Dreaming Waking Hours #what im reading #Comic books #DC comics #sandman universe #g. willow wilson #Nick Robles #Javier Rodriguez #M.K. Perker #Matheus Lopes #The Endless

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karikaturlerim · 6 years

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Erhan Tatlıdilli & M.K. Perker (Eski Sevgili - 2016)

#Çizgi Roman #Eski Sevgili #Erhan Tatlıdilli #M.K. Perker

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graphicpolicy · 1 year

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Air returns in new editions

Air returns in new editions #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

From Dark Horse and Berger Books, under the direction of legendary editor Karen Berger, the brilliant Vertigo series Air returns in new editions. Air is created by visionary G. Willow Wilson, acclaimed artist M.K. Perker, and letterer Jared K. Fletcher. Each new paperback volume in the series features brand new cover art by Perker. Air Volume 1, Volume 2 (February 2023) and Volume 3 (June 2023)…

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#air #berger books #dark horse #Dark Horse Comics #g. willow wilson #graphic novel #graphic novels #jared k. fletcher #m.k. perker

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whichchrist · 6 years

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-from Cairo by G Willow Wilson, art by M.K. Perker

#cairo #g willow wilson #m.k. perker

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a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives · 9 days

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THE LAB PRESS Presents ESSENTIALS, An Original Graphic Novel

By Luke Arnold, Doc Wyatt, DaNi, Glenn Fabry, Jason Howard, Vince Locke, Brendan McCarthy, Andrea Mutti, M.K. Perker & Bill Sienkiewicz

Source: The Lab Press at Kickstarter

#black sails #luke arnold #doc wyatt #essentials #graphic novel #kickstarter

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comiccrusaders · 6 years

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Review: Injustice 2 Annual #1

While Injustice has done a great job with some superheroines, the same cannot be said for Wonder Woman and this issue demonstrates that quite clearly. “Wonder Woman’s Injustice Origin,” otherwise titled “Wonder Woman of War,” does indeed set up an origin story for the character; however, it is muddled. This is even seen on the cover. The issue is dedicated specifically to her, with Superman not…

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#Brian Buccellato #comics #David Yardin #DC #JAMAL CAMPBELL #M.K. Perker #Marco Santucci #Pop Mhan #Tom Taylor

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dccomicsnews · 3 years

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Review: The Dreaming: Waking Hours #10

Review: THE DREAMING: WAKING HOURS #10 [Editor’s Note: This review may contain spoilers] Writer: G. Willow Wilson Artists: Nick Robles, M.K. Perker Colours: Matheus Lopes, Chris Sotomayor Letters: Simon Bowland Reviewed By: Derek McNeil Summary The Dreaming: Waking Hours #10: The new ruler of the Kingdom of Faerie stands revealed-and it’s…Nuala? She may be one of the most beloved…

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