Bringing Brooklyn to Baltimore!

And all things Bigfoot, Yeti, Pollock & Krasner.

This weekend, October 28th - 30th 2022, I’m a guest at my favorite comix show, Baltimore Comic-con! I’ll be sharing a booth with Nightwork Studio mate, Whitney Matheson, who will be debuting her 2nd collection of DIARY COMIX, alongside GHOST PLANET co-creators, Jeffrey Burandt and Sean Von Gorman. Sean will offer a limited edition of THE PEDESTRIAN with my exclusive cover art! We’re also sharing a corner with Ringo Award nominated writer, Chris Miskiewicz and artist Vincent Kings!

I had the honor and privilege of recording a lively talk with cartoonist Pat Palermo during my recent stay at Yaddo, the legendary artists/writers retreat in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Shadow // Yaddo hosted by Elaina Richardson
S2 E17: Showing Stories
"Nerd-out with the cool kids of comix: Emmy- and Ringo- award winning artist and writer Dean Haspiel in conversation with acclaimed painter and cartoonist Pat Palermo on the quotidian life, faux bravado, truth as prism—and all you never knew about Spiderman. PLUS: Superstar novelist and TV writer Victor LaValle on how his discovery of comic books led to, well, books in general, both reading and writing. Contributing artists: Joseph Keckler, Prince."

LISTEN HERE

WATCH ME wax Bigfoot versus Yeti on the “Battle Of The Beasts” documentary on Tubi!

Announced on Bleeding Cool:

Revealed at the Rocketship Entertainment panel at New York Comic Con on Sunday was the news that they are to revive the Lights Out horror radio programme that started in the early 1930s starring the likes of Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Veronica Lake. Rocketship, in partnership with Retro Entertainment, will initially release the new series along with select remastered editions of the original program on vinyl.

The drama will be accompanied by a Lights Out graphic novel anthology. The talent announced at the panel included prominent comic book creators Dean Haspiel, Justin Jordan, John Bivens, Kevin Grevioux, Leeanne M. Krecic, Warren Ellis, Kody Chamberlain, Madeleine Rosca, Tom Akel, and Ben Templesmith. The release is slated for sometime in 2023.

THANKS to all our friends, family and peers who came out to see the NYC premiere of DENNY BARRACUDA during the NY Shorts International Film Festival at the Cinema Village theater. Keep your eyes peeled for an online debut soon.

The seventh issue of the 12-issue IMAGE! 30th Anniversary anthology drops Oct. 26th, featuring the seventh installment of my 12-page Billy Dogma comic, “I will Break You But I Won’t Kill You Because I Need You.”

While visiting my father in Long Island, Whitney and I swung by the Jackson Pollock-Lee Krasner studio and home in East Hampton, NY. It’s amazing and inspiring what 20-feet by 20-feet of solitude can afford a body and mind to break boundaries and create stuff no one knew they wanted and/or needed.

Remember…it ain’t easy getting old. It’s up to us to help prop each other up.

love, Dean


SCENE BY SCENE WITH JOSH & DEAN is a podcast I did with Josh Neufeld that breaks down the film American Splendor, Harvey Pekar's legacy and growing up making comix in NYC.

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