Gowanus Open Studios 2023
+ Mary Fan, Batman & Keith Giffen
Gowanus Open Studios is this weekend! Over 60 artists will be opening their spaces at TI Art Studios. Come get BILLY DOGMA and COVID COP! Including Whitney Matheson’s DIARY COMIX 2023, TI Scavenger Hunt/Bingo Card swag, and so much more.
Saturday and Sunday, 10/21 & 10/22
12-6 pm
183 Lorraine Street, Red Hook, BK/NY
3rd floor. I'm in room #53 ~ Nightwork Studio
F and G trains to Smith/9th Street
More info at https://www.artsgowanus.org/
Mary Fan interviewed me about my Deep Cut comix at New York Comicon 2023 for The Workprint.
"For Haspiel, romance is essential to storytelling. “I don’t know how a good story doesn’t have romance,” he said, while acknowledging that there are examples of works without romance. “Even if it’s just a kiss [or] something like that… Because there’s so much punching and violence and fighting and horror and hate, but how do you balance it? You can balance it with one kiss. Or a hug. You know? I feel like that’s the kind of stuff I want to impart in my work.”
You can read the entire interview HERE
On October 18th, 2014 (nine years ago), I chimed in on social media about the grind:
More than half the time I sit down to make comix, I find it hard to justify my dedication to a difficult career choice. The business of comix can be crippling, a tough racket to crack. I grumble and think about all the things I've missed and the things I'm going to miss just because a story is daring me to make pictures out of words. I knuckle up and fight a storytelling solution that almost has me down for the count, spitting in my eye as I roll in the dirt until I gasp, reach for the stars, and punch its lights out. When the dust settles I stare at something that means something. Only then am I reminded of why I love comix so damned much.
A fan of his comix work since the 1980s, I got to illustrate one of Keith Giffen’s impeccable, fool proof scripts in 2004 on Justice League Adventures #32. I got to meet the famously curmudgeonly legend in 2017 at Wizard World Philadelphia and we got along like two rascals. He was a brilliant storyteller, great collaborator, and broke new ground with his ever evolving art. Thank you for keeping comix fun, Keith. RIP.
See you in the gutters.
—Dino
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Love your “See you in the gutters” sign off 💚