Archive for Teleny and Camille

Northwest Press on the iPad… for $5!

// December 16th, 2011 // // A Waste of Time, Glamazonia, Rainy Day Recess, Teleny and Camille

Happy Holidays from Northwest PressHey everyone! We’re going to be lowering the price on all our graphic novels available through Apple’s iBooks for a limited time; for just over a week—from December 21st through December 30th—every title will be priced at just $4.99 in the US and Canada, and 3.99 GBP in the UK. This is a drop of as much as 65% off the regular price!
We’ve had a great year, and we want to celebrate. This special deal will make it easier for people to give Northwest Press ebooks as gifts or try them out for themselves if they’ve been curious. They look great on the iPad, have really great browsing and bookmarking features, and a few even include material not found in the print editions.
(And it would be great if you could take a moment to rate the books and write a little review. :-) The books included in the sale include:

Thanks to everyone who’s made this such a successful first full year for Northwest Press!

Northwest Press Goes International!

// October 29th, 2011 // // A Waste of Time, Glamazonia, Rainy Day Recess, Teleny and Camille

What do these countries have in common: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom?

Why, you can buy Northwest Press graphic novels on iTunes in all of these countries, of course! Click the links below to visit iTunes and download previews of these fine books for your iPad (or for your iPhone, if you’ve got excellent eyesight and don’t mind a lot of zooming…):

Dirty Comics: An Exhibition of Erotic Comic Art

// October 10th, 2011 // // Events, Teleny and Camille

Erotic comics are as old as comics themselves. While comics were thought of as the medium of adolescents for much of the twentieth century, erotic work has always permeated the form. Jon Macy has curated a show featuring the work of over thirty contemporary artists. Some are known for their erotic work and others are known for more mainstream work and their erotic work is rarely seen. Both art and artists span a wide array of genders, orientations, races and ages. A broad spectrum of tastes and styles are sure to provide something for any viewer.

Jon Macy is a local erotic comic artist known for his work in several gay porn magazines, as well as his series Fearful Hunter and his recent Lambda Literary Award winning graphic novel Teleny and Camille.

When Pictures Speak Louder Than Words

// October 10th, 2011 // // Events, Teleny and Camille

Call them what you will—graphic novels, illustrated books, comics—there’s no denying the growing popularity of this storytelling medium. A select group of artists who cover all the varieties of illustrated works come together in this presentation and panel discussion. Artists will be presenting their stories via slides and PowerPoint. Q&A will follow, moderated by Scott Hewicker. Audience members are encouraged to bring a lunch.

Jon Macy will be on hand reading from his Northwest Press graphic novel Teleny and Camille. Also featured: Sean Chiki, Jory John, Dorian Katz, MariNaomi, Roman Muradov, Leland Myrick, Thien Pham, Christine Shields, Dan V, and Gene Luen Yang.

APE was a Glorious “Waste of Time”

// October 5th, 2011 // // A Waste of Time, Glamazonia, Teleny and Camille

Northwest Press made its first solo appearance at San Francisco’s Alternative Press Expo over this past weekend, and introduced con-goers to the latest addition to the NWP lineup: Rick Worley’s delightfully inappropriate A Waste of Time.

Rick was on hand to sign copies of the book, do sketches and chat with fans. The response to the book was overwhelmingly positive, and I think it’s bound to get gift-wrapped and put under a lot of Christmas trees later this year.

The Waste of Time release party at Mission: Comics and Art on Saturday night was a lot of fun, too with beer and wine and comic books galore.

In addition, Northwest’s APE table hosted Lambda-Award-winning artist Jon Macy—who signed copies of Teleny and Camille and his new fantasy series Fearful Hunter. We occasionally got visits from neighboring Justin Hall, author of Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny, who was tabling across the aisle from us.

Northwest Press publisher Charles “Zan” Christensen was featured on Justin’s Queer Cartoonists panel on Saturday, and engaged in a lively discussion about sex, reaching the right audience, and how to make it all work on a shoestring budget.

Next up, Northwest Press will be making appearances at this weekend’s Geek Girl Con in Seattle—including a panel discussion about how our sexual, gender and race identity influence our comics reading and creation—and the next weekend we will be joining Prism Comics for New York Comic Con!

Alternative Press Expo 2011

// October 1st, 2011 // // A Waste of Time, Events, Glamazonia, Teleny and Camille, The Mark of Aeacus, The Power Within

Northwest Press is proud to be exhibiting at Alternative Press Expo this year, and debuting a brand-new book by Rick Worley called A Waste of Time! Come by the booth, meet Rick and pick up his hilarious, snarky and sweet collection, and meet Jon Macy (Teleny and Camille), Justin Hall (Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny) and Charles “Zan” Christensen (The Power Within, The Mark of Aeacus).

Bent-Con 2011

// September 8th, 2011 // // Events, Glamazonia, Teleny and Camille, The Mark of Aeacus, The Power Within

Northwest Press was proud to make its first solo convention appearance at the inaugural Bent-Con last December, and we’re thrilled to be attending this year’s show, which will be bigger and better than ever, in a brand-new venue, spanning two days, and with more special guests than you can imagine! This is shaping up to be a “must-go” annual convention event. Join Charles “Zan” Christensen (The Power Within, The Mark of Aeacus), Jon Macy (Teleny and Camille), Justin Hall (Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny) for the queerest comics show you ever saw!

Jon Macy Interviewed for Outlook Columbus

// September 2nd, 2011 // // Teleny and Camille

Jon Macy was interviewed for Outlook Columbus recently and told interviewer Mackenzie Worrall all about the process he undertook to create Teleny and Camille.

I love the history lesson at the beginning, explaining both how you came to write it, and how Wilde came to write the original. I had no idea that this was based on a Victorian novel when I first picked it up. Do you think your work would stand on its own without the opening vignettes?

The graphic novel would be fine on its own, and that was my intention when I started it, but after working on the project for almost eight years I discovered a lot about Gay history and wanted to share that journey. It also makes it clear that I’m continuing the tradition of collaboration this novel has, which, in hindsight, I realized makes it more relevant for modern readers.

Did you leave anything out from the original that you had really wanted to put in?

Well, there is one scene where Camille fights his homosexuality by raping the maid, which is pretty horrific. I felt it was too misogynistic to include, but after reading the papers published by the Oscholars, an online group of Wilde academics, I’ve come to the conclusion that the writers were not against women, but giving a Gay male commentary on straight men of the time. This scene would come right before Camille’s suicide attempt and would better show how he had been tested greatly by trying to be something he is not. It’s still a very volatile scene and it would be tricky to pull off, but maybe I would add it to a future edition.

Check out the whole interview at Outlook Columbus!

In Case You Missed it: Paul Gravett on Teleny and Camille

// August 2nd, 2011 // // Teleny and Camille

Paul Gravett wrote an article about literary adaptations in graphic novels for the Times Literary Supplement in May, which included a section about Jon Macy’s Teleny and Camille. I just stumbled across an online version of the article today and, since I don’t think we linked to it before, I wanted to share it with you.

Macy draws himself at work on the project, realising that “only adding pictures to the [complete] text would not do it justice”, but anxious about having to “trim the Victorian gingerbread”, and imagining himself “facing a tribunal for all my Wildean crimes.” Macy would not be found guilty, as he has made this book his own by focusing on its love story between two men, put in context in a prologue narrated by the London bookseller Charles Hirsch. Macy goes on to accompany the already highly charged texts with an imagery of brooding eroticism and, as required, uninhibited pornography, in some passages stripping everything down to purely visual terms. His inky linework stays sensuous and sensitive to the turbulent emotions and settings of his two idealised lovers, shifting between streamlined simplicity and more ornate flourishes from Expressionism to Art Nouveau.

Check out the whole review of Teleny and Camille as part of the article “Obvious Impostures” at Paul Gravett’s website.

Comic-Con International 2011

// July 20th, 2011 // // Events, Teleny and Camille, The Power Within

Northwest Press will be one of the dozen talented comics creators and publishers joining Prism Comics at their deluxe triple booth at Comic-Con this year! The fabulous Jon Macy will be on hand to sign copies of Teleny and Camille, and our brand-new anti-bullying comic, The Power Within, will be available for the very first time!

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