Ben Tanzer's Blog, page 224

Dang. R.I.P. Harvey Pekar.

"I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it. I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way."

You Can Make Him Like You.

We are Flatmancrooked.

The very cool Bl Pawelek has interviewed TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer about Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine for the very cool 10 Everywhere series at the very cool Flatmancrooked and suffice it to say we are feeling very cool at the moment. Excerpt below.

Do you think Geoff and Jen will last past page 200?

BT: I hope so, it's possible, even probable, but it will be hard for them until at least page 700 or so of the imaginary ongoing story I hope someone, somewhere is...

This Book Will Change Your Life - Red Ivy Afternoon by Mark R. Brand.

What we have found fascinating over the last week or so of reading, is that just about everything we have read has had two traits in common. One, they have invoked memories of the things we read when we were kids, and two, they have lent themselves to larger topics impacting society and the world today, especially the environment, immigration, economic stress and corruption, both corporate and governmental, assuming there is even a difference when it comes to the latter. First, there was

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live, quite Vocho, all comix and very Lafler.

The new edition of This Zine Will Change Your Life is live and quite Vocho. Or something like that. We have a series of firsts for this edition, one, a comic titled El Vocho by legendary writer/illustrator Steve Lafler, which we are way excited about, and two, music by Steve as well, which is also way exciting. There is not photo action this edition, but that doesn't mean we don't love the Adam Lawrence as much as always, not to mention his fellow staffers Jason Behrends and Pete...

New Ike Reilly video magic courtesy of Magnet Magazine and the Pete Anderson.

CellStories CNN coolness.

Quite cool to see a big shout-out for the CellStories on CNN Tech today. They are highlighted in a piece on Summer reading via one's cellphone and even score a quote by founder Dan Sinker. To check TBWCYL, Inc. spokesperson Ben Tanzer's story That's It on CellStories you may do so here and for some excerpt from the CNN piece please feel free to keep reading.

"This free publishing project by Dan Sinker features works in several genres by several authors -- with a fair amount of work that's...

Happy Anniversary.

This Book Will Change Your Life - El Vocho: Love at the Twilight of Oil by Steve Lafler.

It is always an event here at TBWCYL, Inc. headquarters when legendary comix dude and TBWCYL, Inc. favorite Steve Lafler releases a new joint and so it is with great excitement that we let you know that we just received a "Limited Release Prepublication Galley" of El Vocho: Love at the Twilight of Oil which is being released later this month. On the face of it, El Vocho is an entertaining story of an Expat artist living the bohemian life in Mexico that manages to both celebrate the culture...

Repetition Patterns is iPhone. Breathe. Rejoice. Read.

It's true, CCLaP books are now available on the iPhone, and so after that fully sinks in, please feel free to rejoice whenever it feels right.