Wagner’s award-winning comic cult classic, “Fiction Clemens” is finally going digital! You can read the first episode (9 pages) now…. Every few weeks or so we’ll upload a new episode until the entire series is available in ye old interweb pantry, ready to be plucked and pureed upon your pallet. Only at WEvolt.com! Enjoy!!
The road is only a month away. Throughout July and August I will be traveling again, just like the old days, down through Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington. Several reading events are lined up for this journey, with a big stop in the middle for San Diego Comic Con. At the convention I will be tabling with the beautiful and talented Camilla d’Errico.
For an itinerary of the tour, check out:
http://joshwagner.org/wp/?page_id=251
If you’re in any of the neighborhoods, please stop on by. It’s always free!
LIMITED FIRST EDITION BENEFIT SALE!!
With “Deadwind Sea” going into its second edition we are looking to unload our first edition inventory and give back to the community at the same time. We’ve reduced the price of the novel to $10 and will be donating ALL profits to “First Book”, a charity organized to distribute free books to children in low-income families. Read more about “First Book” here.
This sale only lasts as long as our first printing inventory does, so click here and grab your copy for a great cause!
I will be reading sections from “Deadwind Sea” and screening Adam Funn in Seattle on March 22nd, at the Jewelbox Theater. This is a FREE event, so please come on by. Details below:
WHEN: March 22nd, 2010 (6pm – 10pm)
WHERE: Jewelbox Theater
2322 2nd Ave.
Seattle, WA
HOW MUCH: Absolutely FREE
LINEUP:
6 – 6:45 spinmaster, CBDJ emanates MELODIC MID-TEMPO SASSY ABSTRACT ETHERAL SMOOTH SEXY ELEVATOR POP SEA SHANTIES for your delight.
7 – 7:30pm “Adam Funn” FIRST SHOWING.
7:30 – 8:15pm DJ intermission (Who is this mysterious DJ? We like to call her TBA)
8:15 – 9:00pm Wagner reads from “Deadwind Sea”.
9:00 – 9:30pm “Adam Funn” SECOND SHOWING.
9:30 – 10pm More music
RSVP at the Facebook Event page, if’n you feel the compulsion.
“Deadwind Sea” is NOW available through Joshwagner.org and Amazon.com.
Click HERE to place your order.
If you want to try before you buy, check out the first 5 chapters with a FREE PDF Download.
Other e-formats and information available at www.deadwindsea.com.
Just lettin’ y’all know “Sky Pirates of Neo Terra” issue 2 is out today. Please check it out when you’re down at the comic shop. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Camilla and Simon have outdone themselves with the artwork. Don’t believe me? Check out a preview of the first 4 pages at the link below:
PREVIEW OF SKY PIRATES ISSUE 2
–UPDATE: Just got a great review over at CBR, in which the reviewer’s 5-year old daughter gives us TWELVE stars! 
Okay so it isn’t absurdly different, but we added a brief Voice Over part that will hopefully help the trailer make more sense to people who know nothing about it. Still under 2 minutes long, so if you haven’t seen this yet, you have NO excuse not to!
DVDs of the full 25 minute film are available HERE.
So I stumbled across a French review of the “Fiction Clemens” series today. The review was quite positive…I think. Seeing as how I don’t speak french I had to resort to a Babelfish translation–always a recipe for hilarity. Below is a translated copy of the text. The concluding paragraph is my favorite.
Find the original article here.
“All starts in a saloon where Fiction Clemens enters. This one orders glass when an young girl approaches it. The reaction of the catch is at the very least particular since it points its revolver on the young woman. But that does not prevent Tiberius Kitchens mistaking and from thinking that Clemens has piqué to him his/her boyfriend. Whereas Kitchens misses strangling its false adversary, it is struck by another person present at the bar and badly éméchée.
Fiction and Dune trixie (since such is its name) thus will have to escape the claws from the Kitchens son. And that will not be easy thing: the Kitchens family is well-known downtown to be that which manages more the large company of toothpicks containing spines of cactus, but the family has also many spies. Without counting the various mercenaries who will want to touch a premium by finding our couple of fugitive.
Josh Wagner thus weaves with Fiction Clemens a western particularly removed from rim. The most required raw material is the cactus, there are cordless phones which are hung there and one speaks about the arrival of not-identified flying objects. The rumours are persistent, most solid being that the city is under the influence of a mysterious clock and watch maker who is supposed to control all the inhabitants. And that is finally only the simplest part of the history since progressively, from the supporting characters will be stuck to the principal intrigue, each one having its own diary and especially a character varying of phlegmatic with the stupid completion.
There is thus in these three numbers a foultitude of ideas, perhaps even too since one always does not include/understand why they arrive. But it is the characteristic of an account which goes all the same very very quickly and which is stuffed of humour. The reader will be perhaps sometimes lost but always with the smile with the lips.
It is Joiton which deals with the drawing and the unknown (in any case for me) will badly put not style in its characters and his setting in scene. The whole is very cartoon, the characters far from being realistic and the expressions of the faces often extremely exaggerated. Blow, that swingue not badly there too and the illustrations are with the height of is delirious of the scenario. Then yes, on the level of the constancy and the control of the feature, that is not always that but however, the title is very pretty thanks to the colour application of Alejandro Marmontel, Veronica Gandini and Nicolas Peña.
With final, Fiction Clemens is very a good surprise because it is full of good mood and faggots with ideas that one does not see coming and stupid characters not controlling absolutely what arrives to them. Josh Wagner will work on a frankness (Sky Pirates at Image I believe) and I thus will pass this comic-book but I await his next personal production of firm footing.
The site of the comic-book: Fiction Clemens, Adventure off has Zen Space Cowboy”
We finally cut a trailer for our short film, “Adam Funn”, that we premiered last month in Missoula. Check it out below. It’s not even two minutes long!! Click play… you know you wanna…
DVDs of the full 25 minute film are available HERE.
