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About Me
- richard sala
- Richard Sala grew up with a fascination for musty old museums, dusty old libraries, cluttered antique shops, narrow alleyways, hidden truths, double meanings, sinister secrets and spooky old houses. He has written and drawn a number of unusual graphic novels and has provided illustrations for a variety of clients all over the world. His books include THE HIDDEN, DELPHINE, CAT BURGLAR BLACK, THE BLOODY CARDINAL, VIOLENT GIRLS, VIOLENZIA and Other Deadly Amusements, IN A GLASS GROTESQUELY, PECULIA, MAD NIGHT, THE CHUCKLING WHATSIT, THE GRAVE ROBBER'S DAUGHTER, HYPNOTIC TALES and several more. If you have questions of any kind feel free to send an email to: rsala3130@att.net PLEASE NOTE: This is a blog where I just share images and things I like. I've transferred most of these over from years of posts on Facebook where I also wrote a little bit about each post. I hope to find time to add those descriptions later on, but for now I'm just posting images. To see my art you can look for me on Instagram or Twitter or Facebook or my other blog HERE LIES RICHARD SALA or my tumbler: http://richardsala.tumblr.com
I loved this!!
ReplyDeleteNice story! Where did it came from?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Erin - I appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteDries, this story appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13, a special deluxe hardcover anthology of comics. If you go looking for it, avoid the first printing if you can -- my pages were printed out of order! (It was corrected in subsequent editions)...
Richard-
ReplyDeleteIs it printed nowhere else? I'd swear that I've read it before in one of my books, but I don't want to search through my shelves for it!
Lichanos -- Yes, you are right! An earlier version of the story is in my first book Hypnotic Tales. It was in black & white and only three pages long. When the editors of McSweeneys asked for submissions, they said we could contribute either a new strip or an older one that we liked. So I decided to do both! I was never quite satisfied with the art on the earlier strip so I (kind of impulsively) decided to do a "remake" in color (I remember thinking how Hitchcock had remade his own 1930s black & white film, The Man Who Knew Too Much, as a lavish color movie in the 1950s). Anyway -- when the pages were printed out of order, I took it as a sign from the gods that it was kind of egotistical as to be remaking my own stories!
ReplyDeleteTsk tsk, ho hum...these artists! Can't even keep their own work straight. I found my copy of Hypnotic Tales, and yes, there it was! But wasn't your first book Night Drive? Or does that not count because it was self-published? Well, I have a copy of that too.
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P.S. I kind of like the new artwork better, but pages out of order, hmmm... a really bad sign.
I love the color scheme in this strip. Really conveys a since of moody night-time. Beautiful stuff!
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