ELSEWHERE 3: "The New Life"



The third issue of Elsewhere is now ready to be sent to the printer, and I'll be pre-selling copies postage-free until the ship-date--mid-June (see right). This issue features a selection of 32 comics from the ongoing "New Life" series, which has been serialized in Rain Taxi since 1997.

Includes words by &/or images of: George Albon, Yehuda Amichai, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Blackburn, William Blake, Robert Creeley, Mahmoud Darwish, Daniel Davidson, Marta Deike, Tom Devaney, Diane di Prima, T.S. Eliot, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, Alfred Starr Hamilton, Lyn Hejinian, Ernst Herbeck, Mitch Highfill, Brenda Iijima, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Rodney Koeneke, Colleen Lookingbill, Kimberly Lyons, Jackson Mac Low, Bernadette Mayer, Eileen Myles, Emile Nelligan, Frank O'Hara, Ezra Pound, Laurie Price, Jerome Sala, Spencer Selby, Ron Silliman, Gertrude Stein, Chris Stroffolino, Gary Sullivan, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, John Wieners, William Carlos Williams, John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester), and Kevin Young.

Also includes an introduction by Rain Taxi editor, Eric Lorberer.

"It might just be one of the best uses of comics autobiography in a long time," The Comics Journal (on Elsewhere #1).

"Gary Sullivan makes American culture apparent at its point of birth the way the Hubble Telescope captures images of the birth of a star," Broken Frontier (on Elsewhere #2).

"One of the two most important practitioners of the 'graphic poem,'" Publishers Weekly.