listen to a little Bonnie and Clyde.

in a CASANOVA headspace. welcome back big guy

Found this tonight while cleaning out my office for the move– the note I took in the Emergency Room on Christmas Day, 2006. These were all things said to me verbatim by the admissions nurse. I wrote it with a pen I borrowed from Kel on the back of a Fawcett Memorial Hospital Triage Information form, the only paper I could put my hands on.

I misplaced the note and did my best to recreate it all from memory in the opening scene of CASANOVA #8. Because even when you’re sick, in the ER on Christmas, and hitting rock bottom, there’s that awful part of you that’s thinking it’s okay I can use this. And as it was happening to me, I knew it was how CASANOVA v2 was going to open.

It says:

the good news is yr not paralyzed

he just lost his wife

awful, isn’t it? abuse & suicides are through the roof today– that’s why I hate christmas here.

CASANOVA #14, the end of GULA, is out 5/14, and so me and haro, author of the really-just-fantastic SCREAMLAND, (of which #3 is out wednesday) will be doing a release-day signing at ASTROKITTY in Lawrence, KS. Of course we’ll sign whatever you bring, so bring it all. We’ll have some stuff in tow, too.

And! My many thanks to Greg and everyone at Black Cat in SLC. A fantastic time, a great store, and killer folks to hang out with. If you ever find yourself in SLC go to Burt’s Tiki Lounge. IF you can catch Pink Lightnin’, you should. Thanks for the great time, y’all.

CASANOVA #8 is the featured title over at Myspace.com/comicbooks right now, which is a big freakin’ deal.

I wrote a little piece, and we put togethera free .cbr file of CASANOVA #8 for folks to check out. It’s also all there digitally, too, if .cbr files aren’t your scene.

So please, go, read, check it out for freakin’ free, and join us Casanovanauts as we go merrily galivanting towards oblivion.

Check it out. Now I am on the Myspace.

Friend me before the pederasts find me.

…CASANOVA won.

At left, from the September issue of GQ, a totally fucking unreal writeup on LUXURIA by Alex Pappademas, who gave me an absolutely killer interview. I was expecting a blurb (like, y’know, ON THE ROAD over there on the right) and not this unbelivable coverage.

Thanks, Alex.

Buy CASANOVA: LUXURIA today– the graphic novel preferred by Gentlemen.

EDIT TO ADD:

full article now at the gq blog. Spiritual spoilers, if not literal ones await.

The Believer - Interview with David Simon

NICK HORNBY: Every time I think, Man, I’d love to write for The Wire, I quickly realize that I wouldn’t know my True dats from my narcos. Did you know all that before you started? Do you get input from those who might be more familiar with the idiom?

DAVID SIMON: My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.

The infinitely awesome Gerry Duggan– he of the infinitely awesome THE LAST CHRISTMAS alongside Brian Posehn and Dicky Rick Remender– ++ casanova

In celebration of the release of LUXURIA: CASANOVA vol 1 I was lucky enough to do a podcast with Geoff “I’m Not Klockkkhammer” Klock over at Comic Geek Speak. It was exhausting, fun, and quite an honor; the kind of orgiastic explosion of ideas and laffs that Casanova Quinn would dig.

LISTEN TO THE FUTURE!

(My apologies to the CGS guys who I could barely hear– I thought they were just clearing out to let me and Geoff coffeeshop each other, and didn’t realize we were talking over them. Mea culpa x 10,000!)