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  <title><![CDATA[Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened]]></title>
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  <default_description>A graphic novel featuring 16 stories inspired by used, antique postcards. Artists use the text, subtext, and historical context behind the card to extrapolate a couple of sentences into stories about love, war, heartbreak, and mystery. Contributors include (in order of appearance):

Editor - Jason Rodriguez
Assistant Editor - James W. Powell
Book Design: Matt Kindt
&quot;Blue&quot; - Chris Stevens &amp; Gia-Bao Tran
&quot;Time&quot; - Tom Beland
&quot;Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland&quot; - Jay Busbee &amp; Tony Fleecs (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;Taken on Faith&quot; - Ande Parks &amp; Joseph Bergin III (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;Send Louis His Underwear&quot; - Matt Dembicki &amp; Jason Copland (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;Res Libero&quot; - A. David Lewis &amp; Danielle Corsetto ((letters by Danielle Corsetto &amp; Jason Hanley)
&quot;Homesick&quot; - Joshua Hale Fialkov &amp; Micah Farritor (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;Cora's Dress&quot; - James W. Powell &amp; Andrew Gilbert (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;A Joyous Eastertide&quot; - Phil Hester (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;Tic-Tac-Bang-Bang&quot; - Stuart Moore &amp; Michael Gaydos (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;Quarantined&quot; - Jason Rodriguez, RJ Rodriguez, &amp; Seamus Heffernan 
&quot;Best Side Out&quot; - Antony Johnston &amp; Noel Tuazon (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;Intersections&quot; - Neil Kleid &amp; Jake Allen
&quot;The Midnight Caller: Holiday in Hades&quot; - Robert Tinnell &amp; Brandon and Brian Fraim
&quot;Operation Torch&quot; - Rick Spears &amp; Rob G (letters by Jason Hanley)
&quot;The HIstory of a Marriage&quot; - Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, &amp; Matt Kindt 

POSTCARDS was released on July 24th and has been reviewed/featured in the Washington Post, LA Times, Daily Candy, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Ain't it Cool News, PopMatters, Bookslut, Current TV, Pittsburgh  Tribune, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Newsarama, Comic Book Resources, Las Vegas Weekly, Washington Citypaper, and many other newspapers, magazines, and websites.

It's recommended for creative folks who enjoy fulfilling, quick stories with gorgeous art. Stories are from some of comics best and brightest creators including: Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, &amp; Matt Kindt, Stuart Moore &amp; Michael Gaydos, Phil Hester, Tom Beland, Rick Spears &amp; Rob G, Antony Johnston &amp; Noel Tuazon, and many others. 

For more information you can go to [url=http://www.postcardsanthology.com]http://www.postcardsanthology.com[/url]. For more information on other books I'm developing, check out [url=http://www.eximiouspress.com]http://www.eximiouspress.com[/url].</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">24</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">7</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened</original_title>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this intriguing book at the library yesterday and ended up reading it all in one night. It is a very intriguing collection of comic book stories; the editor found several antique postcards in junk shops and had various comic book writers/illustrators create stories about the messages written...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11142393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever found a folded-up, trampled-on, mud-soaked note in the middle of the Target parking lot? Did it say something like “See u at 5:00. Bring your sponge!”? And did you find yourself really wanting to know who the intended recipient was, the purpose of this recipient’s early-evening rendezvous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56045574">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book a few years ago at SDCC and I finally got around to reading it.  Writers and artists come together to tell stories based off of older postcards and the messages written on them.  It's an interesting exercise, and the stories range from sweet romances to creepy murder mysteries, hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76842513">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the conceit of this book: take an antique postcard, and then create a comic based on the message, picture or both. All the stories are so different from one another, and so different from what I would have come up with if I had been given the postcard. They brought in some wonderful artists a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43177771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Postcards isn't a single graphic novel. Rather, it is sixteen graphic short stories. Jason Rodriguez gave an old postcard to sixteen different writer and artist teams to see what they could create given the information contained on their card. The stories included in this volume are:<br/><br/>    ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20508247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[POSTCARDS consists of 16 stories inspired by used, antique postcards from my personal collection. Artists were presented with a card and used the writing on the back, the subtext, and the historical context to craft stories of romance, adventure, heartbreak, and mystery. It was released on July 24th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5170359">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The concept came about serendipitously — a guy dragged along antiquing with his girlfriend, whom he had taken to Hershey, Pa., for her birthday. Amid all the trinkets, Jason Rodriguez unearthed a shoebox full of old, used postcards.<br/>The graphic-novel editor took these brief, often cryptic sna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22559301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the premise of this book more than I liked the book itself.<br/><br/>Premise: The editor offered real postcards (old ones that had been sent through the mail) to comic book writers and illustrators. The writers let their imaginations run wild in writing stories inspired by the messages wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51032078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The graphic novel &quot;Postcards&quot; has a very interesting and thought-provoking premise: the editor found/procured old postcards with either cryptic or telling messages from sender to reader.  Each team consisting of a writer and illustrator would use one of the postcards as inspiration to  tel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48637454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all anthologies I liked some stories better than others.  But the concept is wonderful, and it made me want to hunt up old postcards and create stories around them!  My favorite story was one about &quot;tic-tac-toe&quot; con men, but told in a hyper-realistic fashion as if such a thing ever ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54261901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Somewhere in the vein of Found, this is a more often tragic or bitterweet than funny journey through the imagined stories behind old discarded postcards. The amount of research put into recreating the bygone era of these postcards was sometimes lost on me, because many a story hinged on some unseen ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5141483">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a frequent postcard writer, so I was intrigued by this book of old abandoned postcards turned into comic stories.  Most of the 5-10 page stories are pretty good, though as in any anthology, there are some weak entries.  I was particularly put off by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Harvey Pekar" title=" Harvey Pekar"> Harvey Pekar</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Joyce Brabner" title=" Joyce Brabner"> Joyce Brabner</a>'s comic, whic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17093587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[well, it wasn't the greatest book ever, but it was good bus reading. real old postcards paired with comics imagined out of them...good concept, but sometimes I felt like the stories were a bit forced, and that maybe I wouldn't mind taking a stab at writing some of them. Most of the illustrators seem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9110418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finished this graphic novel in a cozy evening in bed.  The premise is that the various authors/artists each had an old postcard and then developed a story around the written text.  One thing I miss about living in Las Vegas is that there are few antique shops.  Back east, every dusty antique place h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12086425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it was so good i ordered michael a copy. yay! mail order!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book.  The author bought several postcards from antique stores (the ones that were written and sent out years and years ago) and sent them out to graphic authors.  He challenged them to create short graphic stories based on the covers and messages of the postcards.  <br/><br/>Teach...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5526232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One rainy Saturday I chose to curl up with this book, and discovered a wonderful way to disappear for a few hours.  In its pages I was delighted, amused, heartbroken, and even scared a few times.<br/><br/>This is a great book to introduce to people who've never read or understood how great a graph...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3759842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[People who like something different would really do well to give this book a shot.  The premise is simple: The editor found a box of old postcards, filled out with messages, and gave them to respected writers and artists for them to tell a story.  The results are extremely interesting and the art an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10307031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[cute quick read. started it on the train, finished it during my lunch break. don't feel the urge to start a postcard collection of my own, but someone did leave an index card in it with their word scramble strategies - reminded me of when kristen would do that at the targum desk.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not usually a graphic novel reader..got this one for a book review and was so pleased. Some of these stories  through sheer creativity and artistry have the ability to draw tears! Great variety...this book definitely demolished my stereotypes about comics and graphic novels. ]]></body>
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