Gone to Amerikay: A Story of Irish Immigration UPDATED
on July 22nd, 2011For reasons I cannot fathom, some comics blogger did the most bizarre story about the graphic novel I am working on for Vertigo, written by Derek McCulloch. They not only got the title wrong – “Coming to Amerikay”, NO and everyone seems to get it wrong, what is it about our title? – but also got the entire plot wrong. Big time. I wonder if it’s one of those bizarre attempts to pick an internet fight or something, because it is so far off the mark. Just plain weird.
Gone to Amerikay is a story about Irish immigration. The cover was shown for the first time at San Diego Comic Con. And here it is.
Cover with copy from The Vertigo Blog, with many gorgeous previews of other upcoming titles. Annotated Sandman? Woot!
Beautiful colors by the incomparable Jose Villarubia.
Here’s a nice interior page.
Here’s what Derek posted on his FB page about the announcement at San Diego Comic Con:
I gave my summary of the book which, as I recall, was something like “It’s a story about people emigrating to America from Ireland over the course of 140 years. It’s a great big historical epic with a crime story and a ghost story and a couple of love stories and all kinds of things in it.” Then I said I hoped the marketing guy down at the end of the table would summarize phrase that more pithily sometime soon.
Derek tells me the panel was recorded. I’ll try to get a post up with the audio ASAP.
So thrilled we got some coverage, but man-o-man. They didn’t even come close to covering the book we’re actually working on.
I was over on my FB page earlier in the evening joshing about coverage of the book (“My Precious! My Precious! Everybody love My Precious!”) but that was before I saw just how wrong coverage could get. Sheesh. Be careful what you wish for! LOL!
PS: Is everyone else as happy as I am that Vertigo is announcing new projects?
UPDATE PART DEUX: Story goof corrected. VERY grateful. And ironically, now the book got more press than it would have had the erroneous story not been written.
Wait, was this a clever scheme to give our wonderful book great publicity?
My God, it’s GENIUS!
And my OTHER new GN is MANGAMAN! Check it out!
See what happens when you don’t attend Comic-Con? }]
Hey, they spelled your name right…
And a book about Irish immigrants who are pirates? Heck yeah! Work in the Westies, “Honey Fitz”, Sir Francis Drake, Five Points and Teddy Roosevelt…
Yes, I’m excited that Vertigo is publishing more stuff (especially the twice-a-month schedule for Unwritten). It gives me something to read while I await your latest and greatest!
Also, beautiful cover… very unique, although the final cover seems a bit muted.
978-1-4012-2351-9 $24.99 Pub. Date 03 APR 2012
Totally! New Vertigo comics, Frank Miller is back, it’s a nice SDCC so far in terms of comics news. Gone to Amerikay? Can’t foocking wait! You and José Villarrubia is gonna be so awesome.
Come to think of it, there actually ARE pirates in it for a couple of pages.
LOL! Yeah, but this story has nothing to do with how piracy affects the artist. Seriously man, that’s messed up, LOL!
Um, well, thanks for the funky publicity!
Torsten: I don’t know how the final cover will look since these are low res jpgs, but the coloring looks like a faded old magazine to me. Quite like it.
This looks absolutely beautiful, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Okay, I love the cover, looks like one of those old timey vintage piano music sheet papers (which btw make awesome framed art, just sayin)
I can’t wait to finish it. OK, my little bit of San Diego news is over. Better turn off the internet.
Arlnee: yeah, that’s what I was thinking. REALLY like what the designer did with this; fits in with the music theme in the story.
You and Villarrubia did an outstanding job (along with whoever set the cover’s typeface) nailing that old-fashioned look and tone.
Bad enough that they got the title wrong…did they have to confuse it with an old Eddie Murphy movie?
Oh well, it’s a beautiful cover anyway!
Possibly a lame attempt to stir up controversy by making the book about internet piracy – which it isn’t. I do not know, but I’ve had ample reason to question the reading comprehension skills – and motives – of some blogs over the past year.
Anti-creator rights tech sites are bad enough, but when your site is dependent on the almighty hit count – or you happen to be an attention junky – perhaps it colors judgment a bit.
I forgot about that movie, I was thinking of the Neil Diamond song… old Arlnee is old XD