Explore the revolutionary world of nu luna by Andrew Biscontini in this 20+ page preview of the thrilling new novel from New Texture!
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Or, to download the PDF in a zip file, click HERE.
nu luna is available in paperback HERE.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Ray Harryhausen, 1920—2013
"Ray Harryhausen lives in the UK, but is on the West Coast for the big Comicon in San Diego. A Glendale bookshop called Mystery and Imagination hosted him for an evening that week. I'd heard him speak in Los Angeles about a year ago and he was really something.
"Surprise guest Ray Bradbury turned up to visit with Harryhausen. Lifelong friends who first bonded over dinosaurs, Bradbury sported a dinosaur necktie for the occasion. When wine was served, the two old masters sipped from dinosaur mugs.
"The depth of what I feel for both of them is hard to put into words. How do you measure the scope of what these two gentle men have contributed to the popular imagination over the last several decades? I can't even process what they mean to me, personally. They were the first monster magazine names I learned to recognize; these things I love, that's what these men do. And they're not only magicians, they happily share all their secrets.
"There are a lot of things that help make each of us what we are, but Harryhausen and Bradbury are a big influence on the best parts of me. They're ambassadors of the imagination, emissaries from the greatest place there is. And they're here to remind us about it, because we sometimes forget."
[2007]
Text and photo copyright © 2007/2013 Wyatt Doyle
"Surprise guest Ray Bradbury turned up to visit with Harryhausen. Lifelong friends who first bonded over dinosaurs, Bradbury sported a dinosaur necktie for the occasion. When wine was served, the two old masters sipped from dinosaur mugs.
"The depth of what I feel for both of them is hard to put into words. How do you measure the scope of what these two gentle men have contributed to the popular imagination over the last several decades? I can't even process what they mean to me, personally. They were the first monster magazine names I learned to recognize; these things I love, that's what these men do. And they're not only magicians, they happily share all their secrets.
"There are a lot of things that help make each of us what we are, but Harryhausen and Bradbury are a big influence on the best parts of me. They're ambassadors of the imagination, emissaries from the greatest place there is. And they're here to remind us about it, because we sometimes forget."
[2007]
Text and photo copyright © 2007/2013 Wyatt Doyle
Monday, May 6, 2013
Andrew Biscontini's NU LUNA is HERE.
“This is the Colony. The better your ideas,
the more people want you dead.”
the more people want you dead.”
After 400 years of colonization, the moon is home to nearly a billion people living in a crowded, stagnant and steeply stratified industrial police state on the verge of collapse for nearly a century.
But underneath the rigid, totalitarian grasp of the Colonial Authority, it’s also home to the vibrant, ambitious, diverse and irrepressibly competitive indigenous population of the Moonborn, for whom life is a constant struggle for survival under the often cruel, sometimes insane, and generally shortsighted and misguided CA administration.
At the collapse of this society, the life of Sanjit Ramirez, truck driver, will intersect with those of the Sister Doctor, racked with guilt over causing an accidental genocide, and her adolescent android assistant, who hates her for it; Demetrius Wei, a genetically engineered genius with Oppositional Defiance Disorder and a catastrophic grudge; Sanjit’s ex-girlfriend Naeemah, a pinup-queen-turned-avenging –cyborg-army; and Sel, a teenaged Moonborn musician who, whether she likes it or not, may be the catalyst that changes the course of humanity.
Andrew Biscontini’s nu luna is a deeply personal matinee space-adventure deftly spun through a vividly imagined, improbably plausible future history in which tyranny, no matter how technologically advanced, cannot suppress the decisions of individuals to do the right thing.
nu luna. Available NOW from New Texture. Order your copy HERE.
The future is beautiful and dangerous.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Coming Soon: DEVIL MAY CALL
DEVIL MAY CALL is the shocking new thriller directed by Jason Cuadrado, from a screenplay by Cuadrado and New Texture's Wyatt Doyle.
DEVIL MAY CALL stars Corri English (Holliston), Tyler Mane (X-Men), Traci Lords (Cry-Baby), Van Hansis (Occupant), and Daniel Hugh Kelly (Cujo). From Angel & Bear Productions and Esperanza Productions.
Visit DEVIL MAY CALL's official website HERE.
COMING SOON!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Happy Birthday, John Waters!
John Waters' latest book is Role Models; pick up a copy here.
Black Cracker by Josh Alan Friedman is available NOW; signed copies are available here.
Visit Josh Alan at Black Cracker Online here.
photo © 2010, 2013 Wyatt Doyle
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Andrew Biscontini's NU LUNA Is Coming.
“This is the Colony. The better your ideas,
the more people want you dead.”
the more people want you dead.”
After 400 years of colonization, the moon is home to nearly a billion people living in a crowded, stagnant and steeply stratified industrial police state on the verge of collapse for nearly a century.
But underneath the rigid, totalitarian grasp of the Colonial Authority, it’s also home to the vibrant, ambitious, diverse and irrepressibly competitive indigenous population of the Moonborn, for whom life is a constant struggle for survival under the often cruel, sometimes insane, and generally shortsighted and misguided CA administration.
At the collapse of this society, the life of Sanjit Ramirez, truck driver, will intersect with those of the Sister Doctor, racked with guilt over causing an accidental genocide, and her adolescent android assistant, who hates her for it; Demetrius Wei, a genetically engineered genius with Oppositional Defiance Disorder and a catastrophic grudge; Sanjit’s ex-girlfriend Naeemah, a pinup-queen-turned-avenging –cyborg-army; and Sel, a teenaged Moonborn musician who, whether she likes it or not, may be the catalyst that changes the course of humanity.
Andrew Biscontini’s nu luna is a deeply personal matinee space-adventure deftly spun through a vividly imagined, improbably plausible future history in which tyranny, no matter how technologically advanced, cannot supress the decisions of individuals to do the right thing.
nu luna. Coming soon from New Texture.
The future is beautiful and dangerous.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Fabulous Friedmans
Bruce Jay Friedman (Weasels Ripped My Flesh!) and Josh Alan Friedman (Black Cracker, Weasels Ripped My Flesh!), "on Isaac Singer's favorite bench, around Broadway and 82nd."
Photo copyright © 2013 Josh Alan Friedman
Monday, March 25, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Wanna win a WEASELS?
How'd you like to win a copy of Weasels Ripped My Flesh! signed by Bob Deis, Josh Alan Friedman and Wyatt Doyle?
The wonderful Dangerous Minds blog is hosting a "Win a Weasels!" competition, and the clock is ticking! All you have to do to win is come up with the most outrageously entertaining "Weasels Ripped My Flesh"-style men's adventure mag headline in the bunch. Easy, right?
But be warned: the competition is fierce! Even today, Weasels contributor Harlan Ellison has joined the fray with his submission, "Ants Assailed My Anus!"
So hot-foot it over to Dangerous Minds for details and to enter the competition!
...If you've got the guts.
Frightened of competition? There, there. You can safely order your copy of Weasels here, and no one need ever know your shame.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Available Now
The wild world of vintage "men's adventure magazines" is a fascinating peek inside the American psyche, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Best remembered for their lurid covers, our new anthology focuses on an essential aspect of the genre inexplicably never given its due until now: the magazines' stories.
And so, six decades, countless man hours and hundreds of weasels later, we proudly present Weasels Ripped My Flesh! Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
Collecting 22 stories by master scribes from three decades of men's adventure writing — most of which haven't seen print since their original publication — Weasels Ripped My Flesh! supplements them with interviews, commentary and reminiscences by the original authors, plus iconic illustrations and wacky magazine advertising from the mags.
Weasels Ripped My Flesh! is your paperback passport to this all but forgotten era of American letters.
To learn more or to buy your copy today, visit the book's official website here.
Friday, December 14, 2012
The Friedman Bros.' "Keith Richards"
That the Stones have been playing together for 50 years is impressive, but their feat has nothing on the endurance of Keef's dentist!
Skeptical? Click on the panels below to read this vintage strip from the fabulous Friedman Bros. circa 1981 in its entirety.
Panels copyright © 1981, 2012 Josh Alan Friedman, Drew Friedman.
Panels copyright © 1981, 2012 Josh Alan Friedman, Drew Friedman.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Josh Alan Friedman's "As Chanukah Passes Me By"
To watch on YouTube, click the image above. To watch via Vimeo, click below.
© 2002, 2011 Josh Alan Friedman
Video by Wyatt Doyle & Josh Alan Friedman, with artwork by Drew Friedman. Visit DrewFriedman.net
Friday, December 7, 2012
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Thursday, November 22, 2012
"Thanksgiving at McDonald's in Times Square" by Josh Alan Friedman
To watch on YouTube, click the image above. To watch via Vimeo, click below.
Josh Alan's first 45.
To purchase your digital copy of the original "Thanksgiving at McDonald's in Times Square" single, click here.© 1988, 2011 Josh Alan Friedman
Video by Wyatt Doyle & Josh Alan Friedman, with artwork by Drew Friedman. Visit DrewFriedman.net
Josh plays "Thanksgiving" live here.
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