Alexander Danner's Blog, page 2
June 14, 2012
New Little Piece
I’ve just posted a distasteful one-pager that I made with Steve Harrison several years back. What I Learned from the Executive Bathroom first appeared in Issue 1 of Inbound, the anthology of comics from Boston, as a backup to Lending Can Openers.
I suppose this one could be considered very slightly NSFW, though of course it’s straight out of the corporate workplace.
June 12, 2012
Public Reading, June 21
On June 21 from 6pm-8pm, The Writers’ Room of Boston will be holding its anual reading at the Bill Bordy theater at Emerson College. I’ll be taking part this year, presenting my latest prose fiction, “The Fathers of Dead Children.” You are welcome to come! Fair warning: my story is every bit the downer it sounds like.
The event is open to the public, but Emerson security has asked that attendees RSVP–it’s not absolutely required, but you’ll get in faster if you let me know if you’re definitely coming, so that I can put your name on the list.
It’s been a long time since I’ve read my writing publicly, so I hope to see some familiar faces in the audience!
June 11, 2012
New Story: Civil Disobedience OR George Enjoys Billiards, Apparently
I just posted a story that I haven’t previously published online: Civil Disobedience OR George Enjoys Billiards, Apparently, illustrated by Dan Mazur. We did the story a couple of years ago for the anthology Show and Tell: A Collection of Comics About Teaching and Learning, which was sold at the New England Comic Arts in the Classroom Conference. It’s the only openly autobio comic I’ve ever published, based on events from my first year of teaching.
June 10, 2012
Creative Directions
It’s been a long time since I was actively producing webcomics, and I don’t expect I’ll ever be the sort to post on a routine schedule on a constant basis. But I do want to get back to producing webcomics on an at least occasional basis.
I have a couple of small pieces that have appeared in print, but have never been online. Those will be going onto the site this week. I may also go back to creating the occasional piece for my old Simpleton sketchbook, though I won’t be aiming for a consistent schedule there. Most of what I made there originally was junk, which is fine, since that’s part of the process of experimentation. The few that I thought were more successful have been “graduated” to more prominent placement among my other stories. Maybe there will be more of these.
A potentially more interesting project, I’m also working on a modest experimental series with Tym Godek, based on formal ideas proposed by Neil Cohn. More on that soon.
A more dramatic difference will be a focus on new forms. I’ve been writing significantly more fiction lately, and I hope to use this site to promote that work a bit more. I won’t be posting many full stories here, as I’m trying to place them with paying markets (with some small successes), but I will be sharing some excerpts from pieces in progress, both here and on my Facebook/Twitter feeds.
I also hope to keep the blog itself better updated with information and essays inspired by my creative experiences. But I’ve said that before, so we’ll see what happens.
June 9, 2012
Renewed Site/New Feed
Update your feeds! TwentySevenLetters has been fully redesigned, including bringing all my comics from both PictureStoryTheater.com and TwentySevenLetters.com all on the one site. I’ve removed a couple of older stories.
Two of my old favorites (The Discovery of Spoons and Five Ways to Love a Cockroach) aren’t up yet, as WordPress.com won’t let me upload Flash files, but I’m working on a solution.
The RSS feed has changed, so please make sure to update your feed readers.
April 4, 2011
Machine of Death Limerick Contest
Boing Boing has one of the very handsome leatherbound Machine of Death volumes to award to a lucky reader, and they're setting up with a limerick contest! So scribble down some rhymes and go turn in your entry in the comments section of the original post! Personally, I'd like to see more entries that would double as suitable entries for the anthology itself, so that's just what I did myself:
A young woman who loved the ballet
quit the Machine with a cheery brisé.
"Pirouette," was the prose
that had lightened her toes;
She had feared it would be the plié.
Also, I guess I know more ballet terminology than I thought? (I'll cop to using a ballet glossary to come up with brisé, though I recognized the move when I saw it, which is also unexpected.)
Anyway, go make your own entries! Writing limericks is fun!
March 25, 2011
Show and Tell: A Collection of Comics About Teaching and Learning
I am on the editorial board for this anthology, and I contributed a true story from my own teaching experience as well! The book will be on sale this Saturday at the New England Comic Arts in the Classroom conference–and for those of you you won't be at the conference, you can purchase copies here. Full contributor list and sample pages at the link!
March 9, 2011
Audio Podcast of my Machine of Death Story!
My contribution to the Machine of Death anthology, a short story titled "Aneurysm," is now available as an audio podcast read by Kris Straub. Go listen!
March 3, 2011
How to Be a Malcontent, Page Five
And that's the end!
March 2, 2011
How to Be a Malcontent, Page Four
Meet the boss…
