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Every year, The West Hollywood Book Fair and its crowd is very kind to DWAP Productions and we’re excited to announce that we will indeed be making our 4th appearance in a row, this year on October 2nd. We’re silly-excited. However, we are also just a bit disappointed because this year’s West Hollywood Book Fair is the same weekend, October 1st and 2nd as the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, another show that is generally awesome for DWAP Productions.

So, what we’ve done is asked Vince Moore of Komplicated and Omnium Gatherum to post up at The West Hollywood Book Fair for us while dale wilson of DWAP Productions goes north to San Francisco for the Alternative Press Expo. Lately, Vince has been working with DWAP Productions as an editor and he recently wrote the comic book sequel to the movie, Total Recall for Dynamite - he’ll have copies with him at The West Hollywood Book Fair so watch for him.

West Hollywood Book Fair

Vince Moore Covering The West Hollywood Book Fair for DWAP Productions

Astra sent me the below video of Chris Burden’s Metropolis II today and we are both stupid-excited about it. It looks and sounds amazing, it’s going to be at the Los Angeles Museum of Art and as Astra put it, “It’s so big!” We’ve both been a fan of Chris’ work for many years now - I, more driven by his edgy stuff, like his being shot by a gun in the arm as performance art and Astra more by his intellectual concepts and presentation.

We saw a retrospective of him when we were in Vienna Austria many moons ago and it was a small religious experience for me. How can you not be “blown away” by a Steamroller that literally takes flight? I’m proud to say that I saw this in person and we’re both looking forward to this piece when it comes to LACMA this fall.

So - we’ve talked a little about the coming conventions and how DWAP Productions will be posting up at the local shows but I wanted to take a second and give a little more of an update. We couldn’t make an appearance at San Diego Comic Con 2011, a show where as it is right now, we just can’t justify the low return on investment. However, we will be showing up at CCI’s Alternative Press Expo and the following year’s WonderCon. Below is DWAP Productions’ planned year so far.

We were really looking forward to Wizard Wold Los Angeles but to our dismay, we got an email on 08/16 from our friend Richard Hamilton of Dial C for Comics that included this link to Comics Beat. Eventually, we received an email from Wizard World stating that the show had indeed been canceled and that we would receive a “refund” but there has so far been no comment when we asked when the $$$.$$ might appear. Hopefully we’ll hear more from them soon.

That having been said, we at DWAP Productions are really looking forward to the below shows:

• Wizard World Los Angeles on September 24 & 25
• Alternative Press Expo on October 1 & 2
• West Hollywood Book Fair on October 02
• Long Beach Comic Con on October 29 & 30
• COMIKAZE on Nov 5 & 6

DWAP Productions and Dial C for Comics at WonderCon 2011

At Wondercon 2011, I purchased two small drawings by Iva Sasheva, based on her “The Beautiful Future” project with Dale Wilson. I was attracted to the drawings’ charming “art deco” style, which conveys a sense of twentieth-century optimism - a fascination with speed, a desire to break through space. Afterwards I discovered the comic and was hugely impressed by it. The plot is simple: somebody in a lovely retro car, bored with the decaying capitalist world, ventures into the cosmos, which turns out to be filled with watchful eyes, fish-like giant predators and mysterious planetary bodies. The comic made me think me of many things, primarily of mid-century provenance - not only space-age design, but also weird surrealist movies (like Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan, which also had improbable skies covered with eyes) and psychedelic rock with its impulse towards nirvana. I am actually making a music mix dedicated to “The Beautiful Future.” Dale said that the project was inspired by stoner/doom metal, but for me, the artwork’s luminous colors make me think of something more, for lack of a better word, “upbeat,” like Boredoms or Jesu. Off I go to make my mix!!

The Beautiful Future - cover

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Do You Know Elbis? DWAP Productions knows Elbis; an online comic by Magnificent Creatures co-founder, Mulele Jarvis. Before you go and check out Elbis, we just want to “warn” you that it is Manga-style so read the pages from right to left. That having been said, Elbis will also be printed Manga style which will be the first book like this from DWAP Productions.

Mulele has been working with and around DWAP Productions for several years now including Caffeine Dreams 02 & 04, Butterfly Industrial and Hunting Buffalo on MagnificentCreatures.com which he co-founded with dale of DWAP Productions as well as his other works outside DWAP Productions:  Elbis, Weird Crime Theater, and Mindgator. Elbis has been online for a while now but DWAP Productions just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see it in print so this September, we’ll be taking it to print with an all new cover and other fun, never before seen materials.

As it should be, both DWAP Productions and Mulele are excited about seeing Elbis go to print and we’ve been anxiously editing and drawing away. We are particularly excited that it will be printed in time for the full list of shows where DWAP Productions will be appearing between now and the end of the year. Hoping that this works out, dale @ DWAP Productions has been poking around Mulele’s other work out side of his company and maybe we can trick Mulele into letting us print something else? You know, Mindgator has never seen real, serious print.

Oh, and don’t forget to go and check out Mulele’s Redux Shop!  Go buy stuff - it’s good for the economy.

Elbis Coming to Print Via DWAP Productions