Leslie Riddle, on a t-shirt!

 

Just a reminder that Danger Room Comics in Olympia, Wa, one of the stores that's really been behind the Carter Family book, also has t-shirts made from my drawing of Lesley Riddle --which can be ordered by contacting the store. 360-705-3050. I get lots of compliments when I wear mine. 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas!

Someone has posted the Johnny Cash Christmas Special...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHuFslG6JAQ

The complete show.  Watch it before it disappers...

A.P. Carter's birth anniversary / Happy holidays!

Today, December 15th, being the anniversary of the birth of Alvin Pleasant (A.P.) Carter, we felt it was a good day to reproduce the Christmas page from our book, in which A.P. is walking his children over the mountains so they can spend the holiday with their aunt and uncle, and their estranged mother, Sara...

Click on each strip to enlarge the view:

 

 

 

It's been an amazing year since the book came out.  Frank and I are grateful to everyone who's read it and come out to see us at signings and conventions and told us how much they enjoyed it.  That's meant a lot to us. 

Happy holidays!

Heaven's Radio...

For those of you who love old country music, I am pleased to recommend this Internet radio show: Country Music Legends, with host Cheri Lynn...

http://wildamericanradio.com/country-music-legends--2

Eisner Award!

As Frank mentioned in an earlier post, it was a wonderful surprise to win an Eisner Award in the category of "Best Reality-Based Work" (in a tie with Joseph Lambert's "Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller").   

Here's a photo of Frank and I with our trophies:

(The globes actually spin!)

We were so thrilled to receive this honor!  There was an amazing group of graphic novels in the reality-based category, and all deserve mention here:
"A Chinese Life,"
by Li Kunwu and P. Ôtié (Self Made Hero),
"The Infinite Wait and Other Stories,"
by Julia Wertz (Koyama Press),
"Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me,"
by Ellen Forney (Gotham Books),
"You’ll Never Know, Book 3: A Soldier’s Heart,"
by C. Tyler (Fantagraphics).

Toonie Award!

 

It was such a busy summer, I've been extremely slow to post the news that Frank and I won the Golden Toonie Award for "Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song", awarded by Cartoonists Northwest. 

Here's Frank and I with Cartoonists Northwest President, Georgia Ball.  We were honored and touched to have our book celebrated by our colleagues out here in the Pacific Northwest!

Awards In Retrospect

Well, as you kind folks may know, David and I won the Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Project, back in July. We didn't get beyond nomination stage at the Harvey Awards, but a nomination is still a great thing, and a strong recognition that we achieved something worthy in our years of hard work on the Carter Family graphic novel.

David has recently become a comics goodwill ambassador to Eastern Europe. He's got lots of photos and stories from his trips to Belgrade and Russia, and I'm sure he'd be happy to share some of all-of-the-above here, if you kind folks are interested.

Here's a photo of the Eisner Award that I won (David got one just like it):