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Endlessly hinted at by both Ryan Kelly and myself, here’s the teaser image for ANTHEM, a comics project to happen one day.  It just so happens the teaser is printed on a t-shirt.

Both colors in both genders, all sizes, limited to 50 shirts total (we sold a couple dozen in the private sale, so hurry!)

You may not have spied this post from Ryan Kelly, but in it he mentions a web comic he is starting called Cocotte.  Which implies food.  And I know for a long time now Ryan’s wanted to do a culinary comic series.  Me too.  But I am not writing Cocotte.

I wish him luck and good fortune.  My own culinary series, called STARVE, is something of a casualty.  Created for Vertigo almost two years ago, it hit too many of the same notes as that Anthony Bourdain book they got going on, and so it was ultimately not approved.  Another publisher, an indie one, also passed for similar reasons.  I guess there is a real glut of food comics coming.  STARVE now sits in limbo.  It may, probably, be heavily modified to be about water scarcity and the politics of food and serve as a sequel to THE MASSIVE.  If THE MASSIVE is a success, that is.

I mourn STARVE.  It was awesome.  It was funny, and really OCD with detail of food prep.  I did a lot of research, like Northlanders-level research.  But that’s the way it goes sometimes and repurposing is all you can do.

Although these days I think about writing STARVE as it was intended, but as a tv pilot.  My agent thinks its an insane concept for a story, though.  Maybe she’s right.

Random end of the year thoughts.  Go read Ryan’s post, its full of info.

Here’s a rundown of what’s been posted up in the last couple days:

- Podcast with Ryan Kelly on iFanboy
- Advance review on CBR
- Joint interview on CBR
- Preview pages at the DC/Vertigo blog
- Interview at Comic Vine
- kind words from Warren Ellis
- my previous post showing all the covers

 More as they come in.

On the Vertigo blog, there’s a bunch of stuff I wrote regarding DMZ and its five year anniversary, Northlanders “Siege Of Paris” storyline w/ preview art by Simon Gane, and The New York Five, also with preview art.  Check it out.

Drawn by the incomparable Ryan Kelly, with color + design by me.

Last night, Blair Butler previewed some pages from my, and Ryan Kelly’s, THE NEW YORK FIVE miniseries.  Here they are, bigger and uncropped: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianwood/tags/five/

I found this, randomly, trying to find an old interview I did for this book.  I’m not sure who wrote this up, but its kind of amazing… a cliff notes, essentially, of the NEW YORK FOUR graphic novel Ryan Kelly and I did for Minx.  It’s capped off with a list of locations and businesses, etc. that appeared in the book, like so:

The Porto Rico Coffee Company is a coffee retailer at 40½ St. Mark’s Place.

Yaffa Cafe is at 97 St. Marks Place.

Dojo’s is a Japanese restaurant at 14 West 4th St, between Mercer St. and Broadway.

The Khyber Pass is at 34 St. Marks Place, an Afghan/Middle Eastern restaurant.

Toy Tokyo is a toy store at 121 2nd Avenue.

Kim’s Video is a DVD and music shop at 124 1st Avenue.

English singer/songwriter PJ Harvey’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea was released in 2000.