My work, illustrated in a glossy magazine
So, Columbia's Fiction, Design and Illustration departments team up every so often in a project entitled "Zine Columbia" wherein the stories that appeared in the Story Week Reader are illustrated and designed and then printed up in a beautiful glossy magazine.
Yesterday, Alexie called me up and told me she'd picked up a zine to show her parents and opened it right up to a story of mine. Illustrated.
Now, I knew this was going to happen at some point. But then I heard nothing until, well, yesterday.
So!
My two stories el milagro and sally's diner--dusk (links to SWR 2009 pages for easy reading!) were just illustrated in... *drum roll, please!*
Zine Columbia Summer 2010's Moustache Safari!
My pieces are here and here: el milagro; sally's diner--dusk.
The text got rather mangled in translation from page to web. In the magazine, the texts are both rather pretty blues and, well, legible. If you haven't read the text and want to, the SWR 2009 links are your best bet. :)
I encourage you to check out the zine and its partner, The Pompous and the Doomed (via the Zine Columbia link above) because there's some really fantastic illustration throughout the magazines! In printing, MS and TPatD are printed in one glossy magazine--one face up from the front toward the back, the other upside down from the back toward the front. If some of the text is hard to read online, check out the SWR link! There are some really fantastic writers and friends (friend writers!) in both mags.
The magazine was printed in a run of 1,000 copies and Alexie paid $10 for it.
It's actually pretty exciting! Two different artists (and one designer!) took the time and thought to illustrate pieces of my writing. The art and writing appear in a magazine (which is very gorgeous and professional and, um, gorgeous) which is out in the world.
Hooray.
Yesterday, Alexie called me up and told me she'd picked up a zine to show her parents and opened it right up to a story of mine. Illustrated.
Now, I knew this was going to happen at some point. But then I heard nothing until, well, yesterday.
So!
My two stories el milagro and sally's diner--dusk (links to SWR 2009 pages for easy reading!) were just illustrated in... *drum roll, please!*
Zine Columbia Summer 2010's Moustache Safari!
My pieces are here and here: el milagro; sally's diner--dusk.
The text got rather mangled in translation from page to web. In the magazine, the texts are both rather pretty blues and, well, legible. If you haven't read the text and want to, the SWR 2009 links are your best bet. :)
I encourage you to check out the zine and its partner, The Pompous and the Doomed (via the Zine Columbia link above) because there's some really fantastic illustration throughout the magazines! In printing, MS and TPatD are printed in one glossy magazine--one face up from the front toward the back, the other upside down from the back toward the front. If some of the text is hard to read online, check out the SWR link! There are some really fantastic writers and friends (friend writers!) in both mags.
The magazine was printed in a run of 1,000 copies and Alexie paid $10 for it.
It's actually pretty exciting! Two different artists (and one designer!) took the time and thought to illustrate pieces of my writing. The art and writing appear in a magazine (which is very gorgeous and professional and, um, gorgeous) which is out in the world.
Hooray.