POSTCARDS contributor A. David Lewis wrote an editorial for Publisher's Weekly entitled I'm Sick Of You. Worth the read, if only to follow the fall-out that'll come with it.

By You, I mean your story. Your life. Its hardships, its successes and its minutiae. Your idiosyncrasies. Your fetishes. Your day-to-day encounters and your once-in-a-lifetime experiences. The highs, the lows and the status quo. Your traumas, your victories and your journey. Your wisdom, its growth and its pretentiousness. Your adolescence. Your adulthood. And, good God, your anxieties. If I ever get my hands on R. Crumb, I’ll beat him silly with a hefty girl’s thigh bone for having unleashed your floodgate of neurosis all over me.

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More times than not, a lot of thought and creative imaginings go into finding just the right artistic style to match up with a writer's story. But when Caleb Monroe pitched me his idea for Dear Santa, Let Me Explain... I knew immediately who had to do the art: Noel Tuazon. Noel's watercolors are perfect for Caleb's heartwarming story. And I do mean perfect. It's as if the stars have aligned and I've been given this supernatural vision that is a perfect future. I'm telling you, these two creative geniuses were meant to work together on this story. (The fact that they've worked together before is beside the point, not to mention much less romantic.)

Anyway, I'm putting together the book proposal and asked Noel to work on a sample piece, knowing that without a script it'd be a placeholder that shows the style more than specifics. What he sent me reaffirmed for me that I made the right decision in getting Caleb and Noel together...

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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.

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Black Metal is the new book from Oni Press, written by Rick Spears (who I worked with on Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened) and illustrated by Chuck BB (who I worked with on Western Tales of Terror). Go check it out!

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He talks a bit about his Postcards story as well as some other books he's doing. I don't know what they are, though, I didn't pay attention to the rest of the interview. Something about Tales from the Crypt or something. Whatevs - POSTCARDS, baby!

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