The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... all programs produced from October 2004 to the present day. Disc One: Includes interviews with Jonathan Ames, Bret Easton Ellis, T.C. Boyle, Octavia Butler, Jennifer Weiner, Chris Elliott, William T. Vollmann, Erica Jong, Tom Tomorrow, Sarah Waters, Colson Whitehead, John Updike, David Mitchell, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jeff VanderMeer, Robert Birnbaum, Daniel Handler, Alison...
Comics And... (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
The Alcoholic Publisher DC Comics Vertigo Imprint Writer Jonathan Ames Art Dean Haspiel Format 131 Page Story Black & White Hardcover Retail $19.99 This book is very autobiographical and in fact it comes across so raw and honest that I feel like little if anything has been fictionalized. The story follows Jonathan A. from a young man in his early teens to a man in his late forties...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Is it really too soon? Amazon joins PW with a list of the best graphic novels of 2008: The Umbrella Academy Volume 1, Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba What It Is, Lynda Barry An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2 edited by Ivan Brunetti Bottomless Belly Button, Dash Shaw The Alcoholic, Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel Omega: [...]
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. In most graphic novels, the art or the dialogue clearly outshines the other. In Jonathan Ames...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
This engaging graphic novel chronicles the misadventures of Jonathan A., a writer who the back cover says bears only a "coincidental resemblance" to the author.
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Literary Reading Improvement Tip #269: Have one rock & roll band for every reader. On October 16, author Mike Edison put together a crack team of writers and musicians, a night of "literary mayhem" that included writer Jonathan Ames, Happy Endings founder and novelist Amanda Stern, and the comic essayist Rachel Shukert. The night also featured a set by the Lost Crusaders, and the manic...
Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Years Lost to Drinking, and Fits and Starts of Recovery By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES Skip to next paragraph THE ALCOHOLIC By Jonathan Ames; illustrations by Dean Haspiel 136 pages. Vertigo. $19.99. If ending up in a station wagon with a pudgy, dwarflike hag doesn’t make you want to quit drinking, what will? That is the kind of question, along with wondering how often a man can sink and rebound,...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Glitter twins Dean Haspiel and Jonathan Ames will be appearing tonight at 7:00 pm at the Barnes and Noble Tribeca 97 Warren St. (at Greenwich St.), where they will talk and doubtless celebrate their New York Times review: It should be noted, for the faint of heart or easily offended, that “The Alcoholic” is unflinching [...]
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
... the Groupies") Des Barres: "He wrote songs for me. Sigh." Marc Ecko: "It is never as good again." Jonathan Ames: "It's like my heart has sciatica." Erica Jong: "Much married, fourth time is charm." Armistead Maupin: "He still needs me at sixty-four." Xaviera ("Happy Hooker") Hollander: "I always take love frivolously serious." Elizabeth Gilbert: "My life's accomplishments? Sanity,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
“The Alcoholic” is an engaging graphic novel written by Jonathan Ames and illustrated by Dean Haspiel.
ONE (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
... evening of spoken word and storytelling featuring Poets House, The Moth and Urban Word NYC, with Jonathan Ames, Andrew Solomon, Regie Cabico, Suzanne Gardinier and Tahani Salah. Saturday, October 18: SHaZaM!: A Day for Family Action Heroes 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Mercy Corps and Children for Children will empower young people and their families to take action and become heroes in the fight...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
... Wire . Entertainment Weekly lists the best all-time high school movies. The New York Times reviews Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel's graphic novel, The Alcoholic . Throughout the book, the synthesis of words and images creates a rich portrait of Jonathan: from a whimsical, imagined photo-booth strip that shows the thinning of his hair from 1991 to 2001 to a stirring sequence...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
... under the name Discombobulated Ventriloquist. Wednesday, October 15 New York City, NY, 7 PM - Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel talk THE ALCOHOLIC Writer Jonathan Ames and artist Dean Haspiel will discuss their new Vertico graphic novel THE ALCOHOLIC at Barnes and Nobel Tribeca at 97 Warren St (at Greenwich St). Posted by Aaron Humphrey.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... notes the city's many tattoos based on the webcomic Achewood . The Montreal Mirror reviews Jonathan Ames & Dean Haspiel's graphic novel, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1401210562/ref=nosim/largeheartedb-20 . The Alcoholic is destined to become a classic, and Ames owes a large part of this to the graphic skills of Dean Haspiel. There’s something irresistibly resonant...
Journalista (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... school district.” Literary Comics [Review] Abhay Khosla , Michael Miller and Juliet Waters on Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel’s The Alcoholic . [Review] Sarah Boslaugh on David Cogswell and Joe Lee’s Existentialism for Beginners . [Review] Bart Beaty on the second volume of Blutch’s Le Petit Christian . [Review] Gabe Bullard on Lynda Barry’s What It Is . [Multimedia] It’s the Comic...
