FAKE ADS
May 16, 2008
Speaking of ads, I designed a fake ad for Alison Bechdel in a competition she ran on her blog
This fall, Houghton Mifflin will publish The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For, a compendium of most of the episodes of, what?!! 25 years of the comic strip. In one book!! Wow.
The amazing marketing guy at Houghton Mifflin has a plan to promote the ESSENTIAL DTWOF to bookstores by producing a fake little 8 page tabloid newspaper from the world of the strip, like, with ads for stores and places that exist in the comic strip, and news stories about the characters and stuff. It’ll be a copy of The Daily Distress, the newspaper the characters read, so it’s a way of drawing people into the cartoon universe.
Alison Bechdel, from her blog, Dykestowatchoutfor.com March 16, 2008
So Alison and Houghton Mifflin ran a little competition for articles and ads, and I am one of the winners. Congratulations to all the other winners, as well.
You can be sure that Pine Street Art Works wil be selling the book, and don't forget we still have original drawings from Fun Home and from the strip for sale.
La Lentil D'Or ad by Liza Cowan for Alison Bechdel's The Daily Distress. Photo copyright Liza Cowan 2002
This fall, Houghton Mifflin will publish The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For, a compendium of most of the episodes of, what?!! 25 years of the comic strip. In one book!! Wow.
The amazing marketing guy at Houghton Mifflin has a plan to promote the ESSENTIAL DTWOF to bookstores by producing a fake little 8 page tabloid newspaper from the world of the strip, like, with ads for stores and places that exist in the comic strip, and news stories about the characters and stuff. It’ll be a copy of The Daily Distress, the newspaper the characters read, so it’s a way of drawing people into the cartoon universe.
Alison Bechdel, from her blog, Dykestowatchoutfor.com March 16, 2008
So Alison and Houghton Mifflin ran a little competition for articles and ads, and I am one of the winners. Congratulations to all the other winners, as well.
You can be sure that Pine Street Art Works wil be selling the book, and don't forget we still have original drawings from Fun Home and from the strip for sale.