Seamus Heffernan was my collaborator on Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened. He was the last guy I brought on. Everyone kept asking me who I was going to work with - being that I was the one putting Postcards together, they expected me to partner myself with a big name.

I was never really into that - I've always been about showcasing as many talented up-and-comers as I can. It would have been hypocritical if I went with a well-established, "big-name" guy. So I asked Seamus, a guy I wanted to work with for some time, and Seamus was down. He did a fantastic job (here are some of his pages: 1, 2, and 3) - I'm glad that I got to work with him before he becomes a big-time cartoonist.

And that may be happening soon...

You see - Seamus just sent me his thesis comic. He graduated art school on the 20th of May and this book won the award for Best Fine Art Thesis. The book opened up to be 24"x34" with a hand-made leather and wood cover. The art is all ink and egg tempera. And, the best part, is that it looks like this:





Seamus plans on doing six more books like this.

It was great knowing you, Seamus. Maybe you can sign something for me sometime in the future.

Labels: creators, postcards

This entry was posted by Jason, on Monday, June 11, 2007. You can leave your response.