autumnal bits

hey, my beautiful buddy annie is editing a book, and here is where you can help!
this book is gonna be rad!

also, some of you who know me personally: i no longer have your phone number and you do not have my new #. email me? and know that i don't look at that often either.

okay, goodbye again, cyber-world.

MURPH! book release party

see more annie murphy at http://ghostcatcomics.blogspot.com/

Event: Book Release, Art Show, and Book-Signing
for
I Still Live: Biography of a Spiritualist
A Xeric Award-winning graphic novella by
Annie Murphy
Friday, April 10th (the first Friday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox), 2009
7:00pm--10:00pm
1914 S.E. Ankeny
Portland, Oregon


Come celebrate Spring and the spirit of renewal, rebirth, and recovery
with this comic book tribute to poet, activist, and spirit-medium Achsa Sprague, and a show of original artwork from the book.

What the people say:

"I Still Live is a masterful hybrid work.
Part adaptation of the spiritualist Achsa
Sprague's diary, part history book, and
part memoir, it channels the past into the
present in a haunting and vivid way."
--Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

"Annie Murphy has that rare gift to make
history feel immediate and urgent. I Still Live
is not only well researched but comes alive on
the page. Achsa Sprague has been revived."
--James Sturm, author of The Golem's Mighty Swing

"This was the most self-assured debut of the year by
an artist whose interests include the intersection
between spiritualism and feminism and whose style
occupies the space between quietude and poetic sweep.
As she refines her style, she will be a fascinating talent to watch."
--Rob Clough, of Sequart Research and Literacy Organization.

review at comicrelated.com
news article from Vermont Woman Magazine
#3 on Comics Journal's ten great minicomics of 2008



Thank you to Charles at Eberhardt press for printing this
new and improved, two-color off-set version of the comic,
and thanks so much to the Xeric Foundation for funding it.

I sure hope you can make it.
Sincerely,
Annie Murphy

annie murphy gets a xeric!

murph is rad! and she recently got a xeric to print her comic "i still live"
here is an excerpt, scanned (with permission) from the copy i recieved last spring:

the xeric foundation award grants for self-publishing. to find out more, check xericfoundation.org.
to see more of annie's stuff, check her out! http://ghostcatcomics.blogspot.com/
there are some more pages from i still live and she has also had a hand in creating a tarot deck (in which some of the images are there too). it may be possible that decks are still available too?
anyway i adore annie; she has good spirit(s) and worked hard on this project.
and happy belated murphday!