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| Monday, February 8th, 2010 | | 12:28 am |
| | Monday, February 1st, 2010 | | 2:25 am |
A preview page — and Introducing Jake
Here’s a page of art from the upcoming graphic novel. The graphic novel will be 139 pages long, of which 100 are inked and I’m not sure exactly how many (but a lot) are colored. If all goes well, all 139 pages will be complete five weeks from now. And I will be exhausted.
Which brings me to something I should have mentioned; I now have a collaborator on Hereville. Mr. Jake Richmond, my friend and an excellent cartoonist and game designer, is coloring Hereville. Thanks, Jake!
Anyway, here’s a preview page:
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 | | 4:51 pm |
Still at work!
Here, you can see my workspace. See, I’m drawing Hereville!
I have the great good luck to be drawing on a Cintiq, which is pretty much the greatest invention since… actually, it’s way better than sliced bread. On the right side of the picture, you can see a bit of my model sheets.
While working, I listen to dozens of podcasts. My favorites include This American Life, The Moth, Here & Now, Podcastle, and Don’t Quit Your Day Job.
Thanks to Chris O’Rourke for the photo!
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Saturday, January 9th, 2010 | | 3:29 pm |
Lake
Here’s a background I just drew, to a couple of panels on page 57 of the graphic novel.
The Hereville graphic novel will be released in November, but until then I’ll be occasionally posting preview images. Thanks for your patience!
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Sunday, December 13th, 2009 | | 8:55 pm |
Mirka’s school’s cafeteria
I haven’t forgotten Hereville! I’m still working hard on the graphic novel.
Right now, I don’t have time to do much of anything but draw Hereville, which is one reason I’ve been posting so rarely. I should finish drawing the graphic novel in March, and after I’ll be a bit more active with posting.
Here’s a panel I just inked, showing Mirka’s school’s cafeteria. You can see Mirka and her sisters Gittel and Rochel, sitting at the table closest to the viewer (behind the girl with the spikey hair). Gittel is the one with glasses.
Click on the panel to see it bigger.
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 3:06 pm |
Hereville nominated for two Lulu Awards!
I’m thrilled to announce that Friends of Lulu has nominated Hereville for two awards! “The Lulu Awards recognizes the the people and projects that helped to open eyes and minds to the amazing comic and cartooning work by and/or about women.”
Hereville was nominated for the Leah Adezio Award For Best Kid-Friendly Work, and Mirka was nominated for Best Female Character.
To vote for Hereville (or for the other nominees — swell folks, all of them!), go to Friends of Lulu and follow the directions there.
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Hey, speaking of Hereville, whatever happened to it? I’m still working on it, believe it or not. Comics are slow!
The graphic novel will be coming out from Abrams in late 2010 (in time for Hanukkah!). I’m just finishing up the second draft of the pencils now, and I’ll begin work on the final art in a bit over a week.
Meanwhile, just to whet people’s appetites, here’s a penciled page from chapter one:
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | | 12:52 pm |
Sketch of Mirka’s siblings
Although most of them don’t come up in the graphic novel (which I’m working on, really!), Mirka actually has a lot of sisters. Just one brother, though. Anyhow, I thought this sketch of all the siblings would be fun to post.
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | | 12:32 pm |
| | Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 | | 3:53 pm |
The Church I work for is hiring for a part-time position...
It's a mixture of computer work (including updating our website, word processing, Access, and Quickbooks), giving tours, answering phones and emails, dealing patiently with the public (even when the public is grumpy with you), and conducting wedding rehearsals. There's more information here. If you know someone who'd be right for it, and who lives in Portland, Oregon, please pass the link along. | | Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | | 7:20 pm |
| | Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | | 11:17 pm |
Two positive mentions of “Hereville”
The School Library Journal blog has a “best graphic novels of 2008″ post, in which longtime friend of Hereville Brigid Alverson is nice enough to recommend Hereville. Thanks, Brigid! (And reading through the rest of the post, I’m very jazzed to be in such great company.)
And the blog Jewschool, which I’ve liked for a long time, posted a very positive review, as well.
Beyond the thrill of a well-told story that is steeped in Jewish culture without feeling forced or condescending, it’s a pleasure to read a story with an Orthodox heroine who’s both a feminist and feminine without being, well, a cartoon.
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | | 1:38 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | | 9:07 pm |
| | 8:38 pm |
Hereville in Publisher’s Weekly!
On the website, at least. (There may be some spoilers there, so don’t click if you’re allergic!) Author Brigid Alverson was very patient with my babbling during the phone interview.
From Brigid’s article:
Hansen first saw Hereville at the Stumptown Comics Festival in Portland, Oregon, where Deutsch had a booth next to his friend Scott McCloud, acclaimed comics theory guru and author of Making Comics. “One of the first booths I saw was Barry’s,” she said. “He had this amazing banner, and he showed me his comic, and I thought it was delightful, but I don’t take new clients except by referral,” she explained. The next day she saw Scott McCloud, who is one of her clients. “The next day I went to see Scott McCloud,” Hansen says, “and he walked me to Barry’s table and said ‘You really should think about representing him.’”
After reading the comic, Hansen quickly agreed to represent Deutsch, but she told him the book needed to be filled out. Deutsch agreed, and the Amulet edition will be 130 pages long as opposed to the original 57-page story. The new edition will fill in the details of Mirka’s family and introduce some new characters, but it will end in the same place as the webcomic. […]
Although he signed a one-book contract with Abrams, the publisher has the option on future volumes, and Deutsch definitely sees Hereville as the first in a series. “I don’t know how many volumes there will be,” he said. “There may be comics focusing on characters other than Mirka who live in that community but I do know there will be several more Mirka stories, ” Deutsch says.
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | | 12:43 pm |
Buying a new desktop
I'm thinking of buying a new desktop -- one that hopefully won't choke on huge photoshop files with dozens of layers. Does anyone have any advice or recommendations? (From a budget point of view, I might have to stick with Windows, even though I know everyone loves Mac.) Barry | | Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | | 12:46 am |
| | Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | | 4:23 am |
Proposition 8 passes
"Eight years ago, Californians voted 61% to define marriage as being only between a man and a woman." As of right now (12:45am Pacific Time), it seems like 52% of Californians are voting to retain that definition. Without a doubt, the vote on proposition 8 tonight was a victory for bigots. They've won. Today. But still. From 61% to 52%. In eight years. That's stunning. The speed of changing opinion on equal marriage rights is awesome, and though slower than we'd like, it's in the right direction. They've won. Today. But Massachusetts isn't going away. Neither is Connecticut. And New Jersey will probably be next, and New York. And they won't be the last. And the skies will continue to fail to fall in those states, because there is nothing the least bit harmful about recognizing families as families. And I predict that in less than a decade, we'll take back California too. They've won. Today. But we have two states with same-sex marriage, when very recently we had none. Civil unions, which seemed like a far-out radical idea so recently, is now the moderate position. They've won. Today. But they're losing the war, and they know it. It's only a matter of time. | | Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 | | 3:11 pm |
Press Release: Hereville Graphic Novel To Be Published by Harry Abrams
Some good news that was finally publicly announced today. Here’s the press release:
Author Name: Barry Deutsch
Book Title: Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword
Category: Children’s / YA graphic novel
Book/Deal Description:
Amulet Books has acquired the publication rights to Hereville, Barry Deutsch’s fanciful adventure comic, currently scheduled for publication in Spring 2010.
Charlie Kochman Executive Editor of Abrams Comic Arts and Judy Hansen of Hansen Literary Agency negotiated the deal. Film rights will handled by Nick Harris of Rabineau Wachter Sanford & Harris for Hansen Literary Agency.
Hereville, portions of which initially appeared as a web comic on Deutsch’s web site www.hereville.com, chronicles the adventures of Mirka, an 11-year old Orthodox Jewish girl, whose dreams of slaying fairy-tale monsters conflict with her highly structured life in an isolated, religious town.
The Washington Post has described Hereville as "what you get when you cross Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Isaac Bashevis Singer."
About the Author:
Barry Deutsch grew up in Connecticut and studied under comics master Will Eisner at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Deutsch’s cartoons have won the Charles Schulz Award for college cartooning, and in 2008 Deutsch was nominated for the Russ Manning Award for outstanding new talent. Deutsch currently lives in Portland, Oregon, in a bright blue house with bubble gum pink trim.
Originally published at hereville.com. You can comment here or there. | | Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | | 2:01 pm |
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