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28.6.06 A Woman Is A Sometimes Thing

Sometimes I am La Belle Dame Sans Merci, like on Monday when I cut through binding layers of idiocy, administrative tedium, and timewasters until I was fierce and free again. Sometimes I am a superhero, like on Tuesday when I nailed three high-stakes film production meetings stone, on 45 minutes sleep in the previous 24 hours, then walked up Primrose Hill with the afternoon sky looking like a slow-motion Constable painting and I stretched out my arms from Mile End to World's End and just breathed the cut-grass air. Sometimes I'm nothing but the shattered wreck of a human being, like today, when I rolled out of bed at 4pm and went straight to the Groucho Club to mumble my way through yet another film meeting. This is me, or a reasonable facsimile thereof:

Sometimes I'm even a writer. On July 1, the first book in my graphic novel series Kat & Mouse is released from Tokyopop. It's ostensibly the story of two misfit 7th-grade girls in a posh New England private school who solve mysteries in and around the school using science and math. But as with any of my books, that's really just a point of departure for telling stories about the interplay of personalities, seasoned with my usual absurdism. As with all proper kids' stories, some pretty nasty emotional violence goes on between the characters, which I feel is faithful to at least my junior-high experience.

It's always funny when a book comes out, as I finish them so long in advance of publication it feels like something dragged out of the attic, and I can never quite figure out what all the fuss is about. So with Kat & Mouse: Book 2 is written, and halfway through being drawn by Federica. If you think Book 1 is too mainstream, not "Alex" enough, wait until you see Book 2. That's where we start picking up the strands of stories very subtlely laid out in Book 1, and ramp the pace and the strangeness of the story up to 11. If you love film noir, or enjoyed Brick, you'll like where this series is going. There are all my usual easter-eggs and oblique references to things I adore. Plus, Federica's art gets even more beautiful, if that's possible:

Clicky on the picture to be taken to Amazon for pre-ordering Book 1. Please consider purchasing it for yourself or for the women and girls in your life. I think it's quite fun.

Hopefully tomorrow (the first day I've had to myself all week) I can go back to being a writer. My screenplay calls.

( 8:10 PM )

1 Comments:

FYI:
Kat & Mouse was in my local shop today (Madison NJ, USA). I did buy it, but haven't yet sat down to read it (or anything else for that matter).

By Pete, at 12:52 AM