Artist to Artist: In his book, The Brooklynites, photographer Seth Kushner included a portrait of comic-book artist Dean Haspiel, co-author of The Alcoholic. Here they talk about telling stories through taking and/or drawing pictures.
A side note especially for people tuning into the BRIC Community Media blog:
These guys were some of the greatest guests we’ve had for our Artist to Artist segment. By all means, this doesn’t mean that our other past guests were not also great– it only confirms that we always seem to get some pretty darn classy artists for this segment in Caught In The Act.
When I (your friendly BRIC Community Media Marketing & Communications Manager, Lee Eddy) found out that we’d be featuring the artist responsible for The Alcoholic, my inner comic and graphic novel geek got a little starstruck. I only recently caught the “I Like The Graphic Novel Format” virus from my significant other, Macon. A month prior to Dean Haspiel’s appearance, Macon had handed me a copy of The Alcoholic and said, “No. Seriously. This is really a faaaaaantastic book.” I nodded politely and took the copy of The Alcoholic and said, “Sure, babe. I’ll check it out.”
Fast forward to four days later, the darn thing is read cover to cover and I’m licking my fingers trying to soak up whatever last bits of the pages might’ve remained. It was— well, faaaaaaantastic. Especially the images that Haspiel presented…. the world that the main character journeys through reflects the bleakness and the– I’ll stop. You should read it and form your own opinions.
After listening to this interview I am now putting The Brooklynites in my “Read This” queue. It’s obvious that Mr. Kushner and Mr. Haspiel love Brooklyn and are sincerely excited about presenting their home in a light that neither glorifies nor diminishes the borough. You know, the way you’re supposed to.
Anyway. If you enjoyed getting to know Seth and Dean in this segment, I encourage you to check out their work. (Seth’s here: http://sethkushner.com/ and here: http://sethkushner.blogspot.com/ Dean here: http://deanhaspiel.com/)
7 Comments
February 28, 2009 at 9:56 pm
I really enjoyed this. I wish Manhattan public access was producing anything this cool or well made.
March 1, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Glad you like it, Bob! If you want to see the entire episode or see other “cool” and “well made” clips, I encourage you to check out some of the other Brooklyn Independent Television shows on our web page.
March 3, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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April 24, 2009 at 7:21 am
The style of writing is very familiar . Did you write guest posts for other bloggers?
April 26, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Eight minutes of engaging tete a tete with two highly accomplished, articulate Brooklyn artists.
Kushner and Haspiel take us on a brief tour of the landscape of their inspiration, influences and vision with clarity and enthusiasm. In the process, they both give an ardent salutation to Brooklyn, city of their creative wellspring.