Snippet of Derek McCulloch on the Vertigo panel at San Diego Comic Con speaking about our new GN.
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Gone to Amerikay: A Story of Irish Immigration UPDATED
on July 22nd, 2011Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work
For 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!
FOLLOW ME ON MY NEW TWITTER ACCOUNT!
Major Kovar leaves the Cafe Press shop on July 31.
The Facebook fan page is here. When we reach 1500 members, we will have a drawing for a page of original art!
Derek McCulloch will speak about our graphic novel Gone to Amerikay at San Diego Comic Con today, and that means you’ll get a chance to see some preview art I’ve not been able to show on the blog. Even though I’ve been working on this book for over two years, this is the official release announcement. I’ll be finished in the next few weeks.
CLICK HERE FOR ART PREVIEW: Cover and interior for your peepers!
Thursday, July 21
5:45-6:45 Vertigo Editorial
Moderator: Karen Berger/John Cunningham
They come from the cutting edge of comics… and Vertigo has never been edgier, with thought-provoking titles from some of comics’ most acclaimed creators. Don’t miss this panel featuring Bill Willingham (Fables) Scott Snyder (American Vampire), Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth), Michael Allred (iZombie), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Les Klinger (Annotated Sandman), Rebecca Guay (A Flight of Angels), Colleen Doran (Gone to Amerikay), and many others – this is your opportunity to learn more about the entire Vertigo line! Hosted by Vertigo Executive Editor Karen Berger. Room 6DE
I can’t believe how long it’s taken. I did Mangaman in roughly 1/4 the time it took to draw Gone to Amerikay. Speed doesn’t seem to have hurt the quality of Mangaman, since we’ve already gotten a YALSA nod for the book!
DC/Vertigo has been so kind and supportive throughout Gone to Amerikay. From research to drawing style, it’s been real labor. But Karen Berger, and Joan Hilty, and Sara Litt have been rocks all the way, and I’m so grateful for the beautiful story Derek McCulloch has written for me to draw.
Hunkered down to ink this book and almost nothing else for the coming weeks, except ship orders…
It’s exciting to have so many people ordering books and art from the site. Every single package is a symbol of your support.
I spent a full day this week finishing off my workshop cleanup, and now I have a tidy, efficient space for packing and shipping…for the first time, ever. It’s easy to get things wrapped up and out of here now. I’m off to the post today with ten fat packages! And I still have more than twenty to go!
I won’t get much gardening in this week, but my garden is doing very well, yielding lots of delicious veggies, and fat bouquets of flowers. It’s almost running itself at this point, and I don’t need to be out there more than an hour a day. In this heat, that’s a blessing.
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