Friday, May 25, 2012

9th Annual Marathon Reading of Song of Myself

Here's a poster I did for the Ninth Annual Marathon Reading of Song Myself. If you're in Brooklyn on June 3 check it out. The reading is organized by Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener.


Ninth Annual Marathon Reading of "Song of Myself" Sunday, June 3, 2012, 3:00-5:30 p.m. The Granite Prospect in Brooklyn Bridge Park (Pier One)... free!
Led by NYU Professor Karen Karbiener, this year's event will feature Martin Espada, current Poet-in-Residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace. We’ll hear Whitman's words in full view of his beloved Mannahatta from ‘Brooklyn’s front stoop.’ 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Stumptown Comics Fest

Join me this weekend at Stumptown Comics Fest  for the debut of The Naked Boy Part 3. I'm doing a workshop on Saturday from 12-12:45 and a panel with Jeff Lemire and Bt Livermore on Sunday afternoon.

Friday, April 13, 2012

The Naked Boy Part 3 is published!

Check out The Naked Boy Part 3 at Lulu.com. Here are some blurbs about the book:


Think of The Naked Boy, by Daniel Duford, as a Marvel Comic written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Woody Guthrie, penciled by Jose Orozco, inked by Steve Ditko, lettered by Walt Whitman, and published by the members of the Ashcan School. It is a phantasmagoria of myth and history that contains legions, speaking in the grand, rowdy, mournful voice of America herself.
Jon Raymond author of The Half Life and Sustainability

Daniel Duford’s The Naked Boy succeeds where Horatio Greenough’s statue of George Washington failed by creating a true representation of the mythological spirit of the United States.  Although each are cartoon exaggerations in their own right, Duford’s work displays the dark undercurrent of U.S. history that is such a necessary element for telling the whole story.  The Naked Boy lives in a murky world of fear and competition, one that is vivid and lived in.  It’s a world that you may not want to live in yourself, but the truth is that you already do.  
Ryan Alexander-Tanner, To Teach:  the Journey, in Comics
The Naked Boy is a great American epic in the raw, revolutionary spirit of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.  Daniel Duford’s graphic road trip presents compellingly strange characters as well as familiar faces: Woody Guthrie, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Walt himself.  “As you see,” declares Sitting Bull to the Naked Boy in Part 3, “we are very much alive.”  I felt invigorated, too, by the energy, intensity, and meaningfulness of this journey—at once so dark, and so enlightening.
Karen Karbiener, NYU Professor and Walt Whitman scholar



Monday, April 9, 2012

Naked Boy Part 3 Cover block print

Here's the print that will be the cover for The Naked Boy Part 3. Part 3 will be ready in time for Stumptown Comics Fest April 28 and 29.