!!!! BRUUUUUNNOOOOO !!!!! More From The 2005 Edition of Comic Con International: San Diego

Art Boy+ Word Girl = Gunned Down! Don't they look ever so pleased with themselves?

Okay, technically we didn't do the WHOLE anthology. We did one story in it together and he also did the book's design. I'm halfway through the collection as of this writing, and enjoying it muchly. The Doc Holiday story absolutely slays. The vibe coming through the stories so far is these are not Westerns created by people blinded by the Myth Of The White West. I don't think that was planned, but I think it's pretty obvious why it turned out that way. Rock!

God, my forehead is HUGE...

Previous tales of the wickedly talented Bruno, The Boy From Brazil can be found elsewhere on this site. Since I never bothered to find out if there's a search feature I could add to the place, they should show up if you click the tags "comics" and/or "writing". I forget which...

Personally, I love the tagline for the book -- 10 Westerns For 10 Bucks. Shane the editor/publisher/writer/I Wonder If He Sleeps came up with that. Know what that is? That's VISION. It's the sort of thing that reminds me of the editor who once took two paragraphs of a news story I did and stripped them down to six words: He was a 9-mm menace. That particular editor from way back when was an awful person, but the man sure could work him over some words and make your stuff glow. I think of him every once in a while, and hope he's rotting in hell.

There are other pictures of the rest of the contributors to GD. I don't have any, but Fabio does somewhere in his archives.

Here's an interesting factoid about the book which I learned hours ago. All of the illustrators are from Brazil. No, wait. That part I knew. What I didn't know was that Bruno, Fabio, Ba, Kako and Peov all started in comics together way back in the 90s when they were akin a gang of illustrators tearing through the creative landscape of their homeland. Gunned Down is in some ways a homecoming of sorts. Each of them have come a long way since their early days and are building solid careers within comics and beyond the medium's borders (when you get the book, flip to the bios on pages 178/179 and let your jaw drop), but for this project they came together again. I think that's sweet.

Being men, I'm sure 'sweet' is NOT the term they would use. Men are so cute that way.

Please o heavens let Bruno want to illustrate something else with me one day. Please please please pretty please with sugar on top. Also, let him put me on the right of second refusal list when he decides it's time to start selling pages of original art from "Prey". I figure right of first refusal should go to Shane, since he wrote it and all. Amen.

Photo courtesy of Mr. M. Thanks, dude!

Comments

[Pam]

With 104,000 folks wandering about the floor, we're bound to miss something. Just yesterday I learned about the Owly stuffed dolls. Owly is a WONDERFUL book by Andy Ruton. It's about an owl who likes to read. I stopped by the Top Shelf table several times throughout the show to giggle at Eddie, and never once noticed the Owly dolls! So it's PayPal after the fact for me..

[Maryelizabeth]

Arrrgh -- why didn't I pick this up at Con instead of now realizing I want it and will probably have to get it shipped to me by Robert at ComicKaze or hope Mike at Heroes and Villains has it to pick up, since my so called local comics shop is sure not to have it, since really they're a game shop with a comics section? :: draws breath :: ah -- it wouldn't be Con, if there wasn't stuff I didn't know I was missing until too late, right?