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Preview – Cursed Pirate Girl

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CURSED PIRATE GIRL

Collected Edition
Retail Price: $24.95 U.S.
Page Count: 152 pages
Format: hardcover, 6.625” x 10.25”, black and white
Genre: Fantasy
On-sale Date: Dec. 19 in comic book stores, Dec. 22 – Jan. 1 in bookstores
ISBN-13: 978-1-936393-60-2
Diamond Code: MAR120749
Written by Jeremy Bastian
Illustrated by Jeremy Bastian
Cover by Jeremy Bastian
Rating: E – EVERYONE (all ages, may contain minimal violence)

Adventures on and under the high seas lead a cursed pirate girl to encounter mythic creatures, gnarled and crusty pirates, and ghostly apparitions as she tries to find her lost father, one of the dreaded Pirate Captains of the mythical Omerta Seas. A whimsical swashbuckling tale of wonderland journeys and unimaginable dangers, starting in Port Elisabeth, Jamaica in the year 1728, and quickly heading across—and beneath—the waves. The first three issues are collected in this edition with an all-new epilogue; a pin-up gallery featuring illustrations from the likes of Mike Mignola, David Petersen, and Katie Cook; and a fold-out Wanted poster.

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Jeremy Bastian Art Exhibition for Cursed Pirate Girl

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Century Guild, the leading Art Nouveau and Symbolist gallery in the world, is opening a West Coast location with a Grand Opening December 1st with an exhibition celebrating one of the most intricate artists of any century, Jeremy Bastian.

Jeremy Bastian uses an ink well and brush to create works that reveal the influence of early American comic art and classical engravings (Winsor McCay, Albrecht Dürer, and Piranesi are all present) while ending in a place that is absolutely contemporary, brilliantly sensitive, and wholly unique.  Like something from a cabinet of curiosities, Bastian’s artworks are only inches in size; the figures and nautical scenarios contain details only visible with a magnifying glass.  For example, one artwork- The Sacking of the Royal City of Cub– is the artist’s largest work to date at only 13.5 x 19 inches and took over 500 hours of brush work.  For the very first time, work from the artist’s graphic novel Cursed Pirate Girl will be on display, and 100 advance copies of the new hardcover collected edition customized with an event bookplate will be available at the reception.

The exhibition will be up for viewing for two weekends, then the gallery will be rehung for a special Holiday Sale featuring period works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, Egon Schiele, and styles from Arts & Crafts through Expressionism.

Century Guild is a fine art gallery founded in 1999, specializing in Art Nouveau and Symbolist works dating from 1880 through 1920.  After thirteen years of success in Chicago, this exhibition marks the debut of the Culver City location.  Century Guild has placed artworks in museums and top collections around the world; works previously in the Century Guild inventory are on permanent display in The Art Institute of Chicago, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Century Guild presents: JEREMY BASTIAN: CURSED PIRATE GIRL

Reception: December 1, 2012, 6-9 pm
Exhibition: December 2 and December 6-8, 2-8 pm

Preview of ‘Mouse Guard, Labyrinth, and Other Stories’ FCBD Hardcover

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MOUSE GUARD, LABYRINTH, AND OTHER STORIES (2012 Free Comic Book Day)
Original Anthology Hardcover

Retail Price:Free
Page Count: 48 pages
Format: Hardcover with no dust jacket (paper over board), 6” x 9”, full color
Rating: All ages
Written by Jeremy Bastian, Nate Cosby, Royden Lepp, Jim McCann, Ted Naifeh and David Petersen
Illustrated by Jeremy Bastian, Chris Eliopoulos, Cory Godbey, Janet Lee, Royden Lepp and David Petersen
Cover by David Petersen

This Free Comic Book Day, Archaia offers readers the chance to experience history in the making with a FREE, gorgeous, 48-page, 6” x 9” full color hardcover anthology featuring all-new material! David Petersen returns with an all-new Mouse Guard tale that’s guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings! Lose yourself once again in Jim Henson’s amazing world of Labyrinth, featuring a fantastical story from Eisner Award nominee Ted Naifeh (Courtney Crumrin), Adrianne Ambrose (Fraggle Rock), and Cory Godbey (Fraggle Rock). Get a new perspective on Jet Jones in Royden Lepp’s critically acclaimed Rust, with a short story seen through the eyes of younger brother Oswald Taylor. Jeremy Bastian’s acclaimed Cursed Pirate Girl hits the high seas in this whimsical, swashbuckling tale of wonderland journeys and unimaginable dangers. Nate Cosby (Pigs) and Chris Eliopoulos (Franklin Richards) present Cow Boy, a comedy/western that tells the tale of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. And Jim McCann and Janet Lee follow up their Eisner Award-winning Return of the Dapper Men with an all-new short story that leads into the upcoming sequel, Time of the Dapper Men. Witness the origin of a new, major character! And…the return of 41?!

Archaia 2012 Free Comic Book Day Offering Shakes Things Up

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Official Press Release

ARCHAIA ANNOUNCES AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL HARDCOVER FORFREE COMIC BOOK DAY IN 2012

48-PAGE, FULL-COLOR BOOK CONTAINING ORIGINAL MATERIAL FROM ‘MOUSE GUARD,’‘JIM HENSON’S LABYRINTH,’ ‘CURSED PIRATE GIRL, ‘RUST,’ ‘COW BOY’ AND‘DAPPER MEN’ TO BE OFFERED COMPLETELY FOR FREE

Los Angeles, CA (December 2, 2011) – On May 5, 2012, Free Comic Book Day Gold Sponsor Archaia Entertainment will make history when it offers an all-ages, original graphic novel hardcover completely for free to fans who flock to their local comic book stores. The 6” x 9”, 48-page, full-color book will contain all-original stories—not reprints or excerpts from upcoming releases—from Mouse Guard, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, Cursed Pirate Girl, Rust, Cow Boy and Dapper Men, announced Archaia President and CEO PJ Bickett.

Officially titled Mouse Guard, Labyrinth and Other Stories, the offering will be a shining example of Archaia’s commitment to produce high-quality graphic novels, despite its free price tag.

“We’ve offered single issues for past Free Comic Book Days but Archaia’s specialty is producing beautiful, hardbound collections,” said Bickett. “Offering a hardcover book for Free Comic Book Day is our way of helping to drive more potential customers to comic book stores on what has historically been their busiest sales day of the year. But it’s also a way to educate readers on what Archaia is all about: high-quality graphic novel collections of stories they can’t get anywhere else.

“On Free Comic Book Day, be sure to get to your local comic book shop early because this special book is guaranteed to run out fast and become an instant collector’s item!” said Archaia Marketing Manager Mel Caylo.

Below is the complete solicitation for Archaia’s 2012 Free Comic Book Day offering:

MOUSE GUARD, LABYRINTH AND OTHER STORIES
Original Graphic Novel Hardcover
2012 Free Comic Book Day
Retail Price: Free
Page Count: 48 pages
Format: Hardcover with no dust jacket (paper over board), 6” x 9”, full color
UPC: 811514010689 00311
Country: U.S.

Written by Jeremy Bastian, Nate Cosby, Royden Lepp, Jim McCann, Ted Naifeh and David Petersen
Illustrated by Jeremy Bastian, Chris Eliopoulos, Cory Godbey, Janet Lee, Royden Lepp and David Petersen
Cover by David Petersen

This Free Comic Book Day, Archaia offers readers the chance to experience history in the making with a FREE, gorgeous, 48-page, 6” x 9” full color hardcover original graphic novel featuring all-new material! David Petersen returns with an all-new Mouse Guard tale that’s guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings! Lose yourself once again in Jim Henson’s amazing world of Labyrinth, featuring a fantastical story from Eisner Award nominee Ted Naifeh (Courtney Crumrin) and Cory Godbey (Fraggle Rock). Get a new perspective on Jet Jones in Royden Lepp’s critically acclaimed Rust, with a short story seen through the eyes of younger brother Oswald Taylor. Jeremy Bastian’s acclaimed Cursed Pirate Girl hits the high seas in this whimsical, swashbuckling tale of wonderland journeys and unimaginable dangers. Nate Cosby (Pigs) and Chris Eliopoulos (Franklin Richards) present Cow Boy, a comedy/western that tells the tale of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. And Jim McCann and Janet Lee follow up their Eisner Award-winning Return of the Dapper Men with an all-new short story that leads into the upcoming sequel, Time of the Dapper Men. Witness the origin of a new, major character! And…the return of 41?!

About Archaia Entertainment

Archaia Entertainment is a multi-award-winning graphic novel publisher with more than 50 renowned publishing brands, including such domestic and international hits as Mouse Guard, Return of the Dapper Men, Gunnerkrigg Court, Awakening, The Killer, Days Missing, Tumor, Syndrome, Artesia, The Engineer, and an entire line of The Jim Henson Company graphic novels, including Tale of Sand, which is based on an unproduced screenplay discovered in the Henson Archives. Archaia has built an unparalleled reputation for producing meaningful content that perpetually transforms minds, building one of the industry’s most visually stunning and eclectic slates of graphic novels. Archaia was named Graphic Novel Publisher of the Year according to Ain’t it Cool News, Graphic Policy, and Comic Related, and was honored with nine 2011 Eisner Awards nominations. Archaia has also successfully emerged as a prolific storyteller in all facets of the entertainment industry, extending their popular brands into film, television, gaming, and branded digital media.

NYCC 11 – Be Your Own Publisher: Making Comics with Kickstarter Panel

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Kickstarter Panel at New York Comic ConI’ve been a bit fascinated with Kickstarter.  The idea of skipping the publisher and the editors and allowing comic book creators to make their case to the fans as to whether something should be published is very democratic.  It’s now no longer the projections and balance sheet that matter, it’s really up to the fans as to whether a project sees the light of day.  The website is a platform for creative funding.  With that being said, I looked forward to the Kickstarter panel at this year’s New York Comic Con and so were others judging by the packed room.

The panel was moderated by Cindy Au, the Community Director at Kickstarter, with special guests Jeremy Bastian (Cursed Pirate Girl), Jimmy Palmiotti (Jonah Hex, Deadpool, Painkiller Jane, Queen Crab), Renae De Liz (The Last Unicorn, Womanthology), and Joey Esposito (Footprints, comics editor at IGN).  There was a second person from Womanthology, but I didn’t catch her name.

Kickstarter is pretty impressive in the stats department.  We’ve been keeping tabs on our own for comic book projects successfully funded through the site, but Au shared some interesting ones for the site as a whole:

  • 1 million backers with 150,000 being repeat givers.
  • Over $100 million has been pledged and they average $2 million a wekk
  • Over 13,000 projects have been funded
  • $4,500 is the average goal of a successful project with $6,100 being the average raised for a successful project
  • The average successful project has 85 backers
  • There’s a 30% tipping point, if you get to that part in your goal, you’ll succeed 90% of the time
  • $25 is the most common giving amount, $70 is the average pledge
  • 5-7 is the ideal number of tiers

Palmiotti gave the bluntest and most honest opinions of the bunch, laying it out there and not pulling punches.  He funded Queen Crab through Kickstarter because he didn’t think a traditional publisher would dig it as it’s a bit out there.  He was inspired by what others had done with the site and his wanting to do something non-mainstream made him try his own hand at it.  He learned a lot from the process, including to make sure to add postage for overseas gifts (one of the numerous humorous hints that were thrown out there).  But Palmiotti admitted it was work and a commitment to get the gifts out to the project backers and using social media to promote it.

That sentiment of it being a job was echoed by the Womanthology team.  They thought it’d be a side project, but it quickly spiraled through the support driven by social media such as Twitter.  That tool is how they initially recruited the folks who participated in the woman driven anthology.  But, Kickstarter allowed them to take the money out of the equation, something a publisher is focused on.  And this virtual convention website had the contributors and givers driving the funding of this project.  But the team learned that this wasn’t something they could do in their free time and turned into a full time job, with lots of time and thought being focused towards their successful project.

Everyone on the panel looked at the site as community building and even if your project isn’t funded, you get the names and contact information for the people who supported your project.  Palmiotti joked that it was a great way to find out which family members didn’t care about what you do.

The site is the ultimate democritization of the publishing process relying on supporters to spread the word on the project.  No public relations team here.  Word of mouth, social media, it was key for all of those on the panel.  It also allows everyone to see what has an audience by having the fans spread the word and show their support with their own money.

Palmiotti stressed this referring to his supporters as a virtual army to get the word out.  It’s the ultimate community that’s driving one of the most successful and prolific publishers out there, a website, where anyone can get a project funded if they make their case.

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