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Friday, February 24, 2006

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HUMORIST, PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND NOVELIST

JONATHAN AMES TO PUBLISH ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL,

THE ALCOHOLIC, WITH VERTIGO IN 2007

New York, NY–Critically acclaimed novelist, essayist and performance artist Jonathan Ames’ first original graphic novel THE ALCOHOLIC will be published by Vertigo, the For Mature Readers imprint of DC Comics, in the fall of 2007. The project was announced by Karen Berger, the Vice President and Executive Editor of Vertigo during the New York Comic Convention on Friday, February 24, 2005. Ames is best known for his critically acclaimed novel Wake-Up, Sir. Grove/Atlantic recently published his new collection of autobiographical essays, titled I Love You More Than You Know, to great acclaim.

THE ALCOHOLIC will be written by Ames and drawn by artist Dean Haspiel who recently garnered critical acclaim with his work on Harvey Pekar’s The Quitter. It is Ames’ first project with DC Comics and Vertigo. In this graphic novel, Ames explores the heart of a struggling writer, just coming off a doomed romance, searching for rays of hope through the tatters of his broken life. In THE ALCOHOLIC, “hope” manifests itself at the bottom of a liquor bottle.

“Jonathan Ames’s lyrically strange and offbeat view of the world is perfectly in sync with Vertigo,” said Karen Berger, VP and Executive Editor of Vertigo. “We’re thrilled to be working with him and artist-extraordinaire Dean Haspiel on this intensely personal, outrageously funny and wonderfully poignant story.”

“THE ALCOHOLIC is Jonathan Ames' first graphic novel, but it’s classic Ames, so unflinchingly personal that it’s hilarious, in a laughing-through-the-pain kind of way,” said acquiring editor Jonathan Vankin. “Dean Haspiel is the perfect artist to capture the effortlessly shifting tones of Jonathan’s story, from wistful melancholy to heightened physical comedy.”

About the author:
Jonathan Ames is the author of the novels I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and Wake Up, Sir!, and the essay collections What's Not to Love? and My Less Than Secret Life. He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. A new book of essays, I Love You More Than You Know, was published in January 2006. He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press. Ames performs frequently as a storyteller and comedian and has been a recurring guest on the Late Show with David Letterman.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Dean Haspiel is the author of super-psychedelic romances and semi-autobiographical comics. He was nominated for a 2002 Eisner award for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition," and a 2003 Ignatz award for "Outstanding Artist." He recently collaborated with Harvey Pekar on The Quitter, The Escapist, and Vertigo's upcoming re-launch of American Splendor. Dean is currently drawing Fallout, a meta-human pulp noir for Speakeasy Comics, and Billy Dogma for the online comix studio, Act-i-vate, while writing his Brooklyn bruiser memoir Lift Here to Open.

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