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New York Times Article

This is pretty stunning, for me.  I'm given a startling amount of ink in this article on Dark Horse Comics, especially given Concrete is pretty small potatoes compared to Sin City, Hellboy, and other Dark Horse publications/movies. 

Author George Gene Gustines is quite familiar with the comics business -- we're in an era when comics fans created by Marvel and DC in the 70s and 80s are in prominent postions in the press and other businesses -- and the article is deeper and more authoritative than most comics coverage (then again, this is the New York Times). 

In the print version, an embarassingly large reproduction from the Concrete 8-pager you can read at the link, my first story, runs on the interior page.  If it was ad space, it'd cost about $8000, since a full page goes for $10,000, I once read.  Sheesh!

Maybe it'll give a bump to the Concrete anthology collections.

Heads Up

The New York Times will have a story on the front page of its business section Nov 12 about 20 years of Dark Horse Comics.  I was interviewed and photographed for the story, though how much makes it in I can't say.

But this I can: on their website, they'll run the first Concrete story from 1985...the eight-page "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous."  Plus some other art, maybe.

I might earn a small obit out of this, since I'll be in their database (actually, I am already, thanks to MxO publicity).  Hopefully far in the future.

No link yet, but here's the Times front page.  Requires free registration.

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It would make The Matrix Online a cardio-vascular workout, for one thing.

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Watch this.  You'll have a "that's totally cool" experience.

I also think the TED logo music is stirring to the point of being frightening.