What Pulitzer Prize Winners are Reading April 17, 2008

Tagged: Books, Comics, Therefore Repent

tcafstrip-thumb.jpgMy comic, it appears.

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!

 

5 Responses to “What Pulitzer Prize Winners are Reading”

  1. HighPlainsDrifter Says: April 22nd, 2008 at 6:37 am

    Sequel please.

  2. liam Says: April 27th, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Congrats on the nomination Jim! Totally deserved and not completely nuts at all. Well done.

  3. Annalee Says: May 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Yay Jim!

  4. tammy Says: June 7th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

    I am a big fan and i agree — sequel please!

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