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MACK! Senior Member
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Posted: Jan 17, 2005 9:07 am Post subject: Re: New to Kabuki? Questions on story or where to start? Q&a |
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Goodman wrote: | well, then you have to decide whether or not to include the guest covers or not. As for the title, I think you should let Anh come up with one of her catchy juxtopositions and the have a : The Art of David Mack vol 1. |
Well I could put the guest covers in the back as a sort of bonus.
And many of them are also collaborations with me and another artist.
But I'd still want to include the Scarab covers, and many of them are done by Rick Mays.
Although I suppose I still qualify as being a part of that process as perhaps a sort of art director.
I'm thinking if it is a book of just covers, I should show the covers to volume by volume in chronology in the book. Even if the Scarab ones are often by Rick Mays.
Should I cut it off at volumes 1-6, or also include what I have of the Alchemy?
I'd also include the Kabuki Classics and
I imagine I'd also include the covers to Reflections.
Make it as all encompasing inclusive as possivle. |
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Goodman Veteran

Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 4194 Location: Clearwater, FL
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Posted: Jan 17, 2005 9:14 am Post subject: Re: New to Kabuki? Questions on story or where to start? Q&a |
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ask Mays what he feels. _________________
Comic Buyer's Guide wrote: | Despite its warts, this book shows that Goodman's an ever improving writer worth keeping an eye on. |
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MACK! Senior Member
Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 1302
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Posted: Jan 17, 2005 11:36 am Post subject: Re: New to Kabuki? Questions on story or where to start? Q&a |
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MACK! wrote: | Goodman wrote: | well, then you have to decide whether or not to include the guest covers or not. As for the title, I think you should let Anh come up with one of her catchy juxtopositions and the have a : The Art of David Mack vol 1. |
Well I could put the guest covers in the back as a sort of bonus.
And many of them are also collaborations with me and another artist.
But I'd still want to include the Scarab covers, and many of them are done by Rick Mays.
Although I suppose I still qualify as being a part of that process as perhaps a sort of art director.
I'm thinking if it is a book of just covers, I should show the covers to volume by volume in chronology in the book. Even if the Scarab ones are often by Rick Mays.
Should I cut it off at volumes 1-6, or also include what I have of the Alchemy?
I'd also include the Kabuki Classics and
I imagine I'd also include the covers to Reflections.
Make it as all encompasing inclusive as possivle. |
Sure.
But I'm asking all you you here as readers to see what kind of format you would prefer in a book like this.
It will be a certain amount of work for me to put it together and desing it etc, so I want to make it the kind of collection of art that readers and art fans would really like to have. |
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gwyllgi Senior Member

Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 1158 Location: ATL
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Posted: Jan 17, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: New to Kabuki? Questions on story or where to start? Q&a |
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I like the ARt of David Mack: The Kabuki Covers idea, that's spiffy. A nice slim hardcover would be good, like a coffee table art book... I have those from Luis Royo and other people. They look nice and everyone always wants to go through them. I'd shell out 40 for that at the very least. Your stuff is beautiful and I'd love a collection that I could show people. _________________
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Medical Popcorn Senior Member
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 1294 Location: Portland, Oregon
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Posted: Jan 17, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: New to Kabuki? Questions on story or where to start? Q&a |
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I was thinking more about this and what i know of your early work is just Kabuki and then you started to branch into alot of differnet work and styles. So i would think it would be cool if your art books reflected that and just do what you've said you wanted to do and do Kabuki first and then have the other books have mutliply art works from multiply works. Your style has grown so much and being a new fan i dont know when the major chances accoured so i can't say when you changed from a more black and white to a more watercolor/everything style.
If you do make on of those signed copies that are limited and numbered it would be really cool if the cover was somewhat like the covers you did in daredevil and others where they were a 3-d collage of different media. _________________ www.orbitcomics.org www.rickemerson.com |
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mattbrand Senior Member

Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 1478 Location: Burlington, Vermont
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Posted: Jan 17, 2005 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: New to Kabuki? Questions on story or where to start? Q&a |
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MACK! wrote: | Meteornotes wrote: | Can someone list the available trades so I can see which ones I'm missing?
Circle Of Blood is still one of my all time favorite pieces of comic work, and was one of the most popular reviewed items on my old website (Pixel Planet). I really need to start reading comics again...
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Vol 1 Circle of Blood 172pgs
Vol 2 Dreams 128p
Vol 3 Masks of the Noh 128p
Vol 4 Skin Deep 128p
Vol 5 Metamorphosis 288p
Vol 6 Scarab 252p
The new series from Icon "The ALchemy" will be vol 7. Three issues of it out so far. |
Thanks for posting that David. I read the latest issue from The Alchemy and loooved it (I think it was the latest...with the Dr. Seuss style book?). And I read a bunch of the early issues a while back, including all of Skin Deep. I am going to start from the beginning and get the trades one by one. _________________ Aromatherapy and Natural Body Care by Lunaroma
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kubiak Addict

Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 6221 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Jan 17, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: New to Kabuki? Questions on story or where to start? Q&a |
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MACK! wrote: | Would it be best to call it: The Art of David Mack
And then to list it as Vol 1 (making the consecutive books also fit into that title with other volumes), and put another line under the title designating it as:
The Art of David Mack
The Kabuki covers
Would that be more attractive to readers?
Or would it be better to simply call it, The Art of Kabuki or the Kabuki covers?
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I like "The Art of David Mack Vol. 1: The Kabuki Covers" (or something to that effect) as a title, definitely. It tells me everything I need to know as a fan, that it's a part of a series, and what it focuses on. Plus, it just has a nice sound to it.
As for the covers, from a persoanl standpoint, I'd like to see them in chronological order. If not that, then maybe in order of signifigance to you as the artist (and/or artistic director for the covers you didn't paint or draw).
I would really like to see some behind the scenes type of stuff, too. (Maybe in another volume.) Like how you arrange the paintings, and do the collages, and just come up with your vision. I've always been interested in seeing how the creative process works for people, and I think yours would be particularly great to have an insight on. _________________ -Jim Clarke
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