New Story: Civil Disobedience OR George Enjoys Billiards, Apparently

Posted on June 11, 2012 | Comments Off

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.

Go read!

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Creative Directions

Posted on June 10, 2012 | Comments Off

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.

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Renewed Site/New Feed

Posted on June 9, 2012 | Comments Off

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.

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Machine of Death Limerick Contest

Posted on April 4, 2011 | Comments Off

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!

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Show and Tell: A Collection of Comics About Teaching and Learning

Posted on March 25, 2011 | Comments Off

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!

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Audio Podcast of my Machine of Death Story!

Posted on March 9, 2011 | Comments Off

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!

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Gingerbread Houses Concludes

Posted on February 10, 2011 | Comments Off

I’m delighted to announce the conclusion of Gingerbread Houses, the graphic novel that Grug and I have been working on for the past two years. Full release below, and of course, you can go read the whole thing on PictureStoryTheater.com right now!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
How do you live happily ever after with parents who abandoned you in the woods to die?

Gingerbread Houses, by Alexander Danner and Edward J. Grug III reached the end of its two-year serialization on Thursday, with the publication of the series’ final installment.

A 97-page self-contained graphic novel, Gingerbread Houses retells the classic fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, looking beyond the story’s original end to examine how the children’s ordeal changed them, as well as their relationship to their parents. The story can be read in its entirety online. In addition, three issues of Gingerbread Houses are now available as print minis, and can be purchased via PictureStoryTheater.com. The fourth and final mini will be released in the coming weeks.

Gingerbread Houses is written by Alexander Danner (“The Discovery of Spoons,” “Five Ways to Love a Cockroach,” “Panel One”) and illustrated by Edward J. Grug III (“Love Puppets,” “Glorious Bounty,” “The Bizarre Life of Charlie Red Eye”).

Gingerbread Houses can be found at:

http://www.picturestorytheater.com

http://www.moderntales.com/comics/gingerbread.php

Contact Info

Alexander Danner
alexander@twentysevenletters.com

http://www.twentysevenletters.com

Edward J. Grug III
tedprior@yahoo.com

http://tedprior.livejournal.com/

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