What Pulitzer Prize Winners are Reading April 17, 2008
2008’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Junot Díaz, was asked what he was reading for pleasure and he named my and Salgood’s graphic novel Therefore Repent! “It’s completely nuts,” he said, which is pretty close to what the Quill and Quire guy said (”unhinged”). Seems there’s a literary consensus on that. When my reader poll came out in favour of Lilith being actually daemonic and not just crazy, I committed to doing something over-the-top fantastical in contrast to my more muted stuff — nice to hear it’s working for people. Junot sounds like my kinda booknerd!
In other flattering news, I’ve been nominated for the Joe Shuster Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer award. Unlike some of the other talent there with a dozen or so comics to their name, I have only TR! and one other strip that appeared in the Beguiling-produced Comic Festival. You can read it on Salgood’s site.
Also: Chicago launch of Therefore Repent! next month!
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- Signs of the Apocalypse - November 22nd, 2007
- An Ample Free Sample & a Contest! - September 19th, 2007
- Therefore Repent! Now Out!! - August 15th, 2007
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Last 5 posts in Books
- Signs of the Apocalypse - November 22nd, 2007
- An Ample Free Sample & a Contest! - September 19th, 2007
- Therefore Repent! Now Out!! - August 15th, 2007
- Drawn Out Apocalypses - August 7th, 2007
- Expozine Exposes the Antisocial Homosocial - March 4th, 2007
Sequel please.
Congrats on the nomination Jim! Totally deserved and not completely nuts at all. Well done.
Yay Jim!