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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Revolution earned a 2-1 win against Sporting Kansas City tonight at Gillette Stadium in the first leg of the teams' Eastern Conference Semifinal series behind goals from Andy Dorman and Kelyn Rowe. The Revs now hold a one-goal lead in the teams' aggregate-goal series, with the second – and decisive – leg set for Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Sporting Park. The team that scores the most goals in the two-leg series will advance to the two-game Eastern Conference Championship series.
After a scoreless first half, the Revs came out and built a 2-0 lead before Sporting quickly cut the lead to one. Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis – who went undefeated at 7-0-4 in the regular season – made a stunning save in the third minute of stoppage time on SKC's Dom Dwyer to preserve the win.
The win was the Revolution's first postseason victory since 2009, and gave the Revs the edge heading into Wednesday's second leg. The Revs' two goals were the team's first against Kansas City in any competition since 2011.
Sporting KC had the game's first chance in the 17th minute when Revs defender A.J. Soares re-directed Jacob Peterson's cross while under pressure from C.J. Sapong, but the ball just trickled wide of Matt Reis' far post. On the ensuing corner kick, Chance Myer's headed shot was cleared off the line by Lee Nguyen and then Aurelien Collin's follow-up was just wide of goal.
Sporting's Teal Bunbury had a great chance in the 35th minute, set up when Graham Zusi played Bunbury over the back of the Revs' defense. Bunburytook the ball down, but Reis had come out and closed the angle, making a point-blank save three yards out from goal.
The Revs finally broke through in the second half, when they created a goal off a broken corner kick in the 55th minute. After SKC cleared the initial service, Rowe sent the ball into the mixer to Juan Agudelo, who kicked it out wide right to Diego Fagundez. Fagundez took a touch and rocketed off a shot, which Sporting keeper Jimmy Nielsen saved. The rebound, however, kicked off Agudelo and back off Nielsen, and Dorman was on the doorstep to knock in the loose ball and give the Revs a 1-0 lead.
The Revs extended the lead in the 67th minute when New England combined through the midfield, setting up their second goal. Agudelo played Nguyen ahead, and the midfielder then flicked the ball to the right to Rowe, who found space on the inside of his defender and first-timed his shot inside the far post past Nielsen.
Kansas City pulled one back two minutes later in the 69th when they scored off a free kick. Lawrence Olum sent the initial service in, and after the ball was kicked out, Myers sent it back into the penalty area where Sapong back-heeled it to Collin, unmarked on the far post for the tap in and a 2-1 game.
Both teams continued to press forward and the game became increasinglychippy. Six cautions were shown in the game's final 21 minutes
Reis' save in the third-minute of stoppage time clinched the game for the Revs, and sends the team to Kansas City with the one-goal advantage on Wednesday.
A total of seven players were shown yellow cards in the match, with four Revs seeing cards: Dimitry Imbongo, Nguyen, Soares and Chad Barrett. Seth Sinovic, Bunbury and Collin were shown yellow for Kansas City. A second yellow card by any player in the next game will mean they would be forced to miss the first leg of the Eastern Conference Championship should his team advance.
The Revolution and Sporting will play the Second Leg of their Eastern Conference Semifinal series when the teams meet on Wednesday, Nov. 6, at Sporting Park. Kickoff is set for 9 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on TV by Comcast SportsNet's alternate channels and on the radio by 98.5 The Sports Hub HD2.
For more information about 2014 ticketing options, including multi-game plans and individual game tickets, please visit revolutionsoccer.net/tickets.
New England Revolution vs. Sporting Kansas City
November 2, 2013 – Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.)
New England Revolution 2, Sporting Kansas City 1
Scoring Summary:
NE – Andy Dorman 1 (unassisted) 55
NE – Kelyn Rowe 1 (Lee Nguyen 1, Juan Agudelo 1) 67
KC – Aurelien Collin 1 (C.J. Sapong 1, Chance Myers 1) 69
New England Revolution: Matt Reis, Darrius Barnes, Jose Goncalves, A.J. Soares, Andrew Farrell, Diego Fagundez, Andy Dorman, Lee Nguyen, Kelyn Rowe (Chad Barrett 85), Juan Agudelo, Dimitry Imbongo (Scott Caldwell 71)
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Stephen McCarthy, Donnie Smith, Jerry Bengtson, Charlie Davies
STATS: Shots 1, Shots on Target 3, Corner Kicks 2, Saves 3, Fouls 13,Offsides 2, Passes 234, Possession 37.9%
Sporting Kansas City: Jimmy Nielsen, Seth Sinovic, Aurelien Collin, MattBesler, Chance Myers, Graham Zusi, Lawrence Olum, Oriol Rosell, Jacob Peterson (Soony Saad 70), Teal Bunbury (Dom Dwyer 77), C.J. Sapong
Substitutes Not Used: Eric Kronberg, Ike Opara, Benny Feilhaber, Peterson Joseph, Mechack Jerome
STATS: Shots 7, Shots on Target 4, Corner Kicks 3, Saves 1, Fouls 12,Offsides 2, Passes 405, Possession 62.1%
* Note that all statistics are unofficial as supplied by Opta
Misconduct Summary:
SKC – Seth Sinovic (caution) 53
NE – Dimitry Imbongo (caution) 69
SKC – Teal Bunbury (caution) 71
SKC – Aurelien Collin (caution) 76
NE – Lee Nguyen (caution) 84
NE – A.J. Soares (caution) 90
NE – Chad Barrett (caution) 92+
Referee: Ismail Elfath
Assistant Referees: George Ganser, Corey Rockwell
Fourth Official: Jorge Gonzalez
Weather: Cloudy and 54 degrees
Attendance: 15,156
Team Records
Sporting Kansas City: 0-1-0 (17-10-7, 58 pts.)
New England Revolution: 1-0-0 (14-11-9, 51 pts.)
- Original MLS clubs, this was the first-ever postseason meeting between New England and Sporting Kansas City
- The Revolution's win was its first postseason victory since the team earned a 2-1 win over the Chicago Fire in game 1 of the 2009 Eastern Conference Semifinal Series
- This was Jay Heaps' first postseason victory as a head coach of the Revs … Heaps holds the club's postseason appearance record as a player with 28 appearances
- This was the first postseason match at Gillette Stadium since Nov. 1, 2009 – a 2-1 win over the Chicago Fire in the Eastern Conference Semifinal Series
- Andy Dorman recorded his first-ever postseason goal with the Revs … he entered tonight with two career postseason assists in nine previous appearances
- This was Andy Dorman's first postseason appearance since Nov. 18, 2007 – MLS Cup 2007 when he came on as a second-half sub in the 2-1 loss to Houston at RFK Stadium
- Kelyn Rowe scored his first-ever postseason goal in his first career playoff match … in all competitions this season, Rowe now has 12 goals (seven in MLS regular-season, four in U.S. Open Cup and one in MLS Cup Playoffs)
- Lee Nguyen recorded his first postseason assist with his set-up of Kelyn Rowe's goal
- Tonight's attendance of 15,156 was the team's highest attendance at a home postseason game since they brought in 18,118 for the 2005 Eastern Conference Final on Nov. 6, 2005
- Darrius Barnes made his first postseason appearance since 2009 when he started at left back for the injured combination of Chris Tierney (R foot) and Kevin Alston (R hamstring), who both were unavailable
- Matt Reis made his 20th postseason appearance for the Revs with tonight's start … he is now 9-6-5 in postseason action with New England
- A total of eight of the Revs' 11 starters made their MLS Cup Playoffs debut tonight … the only three players with previous postseason experience were Matt Reis (20 appearances), Andy Dorman (nine appearances) and Darrius Barnes (two appearances)


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The challenges of global leadership are greater than ever, but there is reason for optimism if the West faces the future with confidence and recognizes the imperatives of change, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the audience Tuesday evening at the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry's annual dinner.
Increasing global interdependence is breeding increasing unpredictability, as events in one locale spark repercussions far away, Blair said. Politicians face huge pressures to angle for short-term political advantage rather than cooperate on prudent long-term policies.
"This is a tough time for leadership," he said. Nevertheless, he added: "I am optimistic about the world."
Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007 and Labour Party leader from 1994 to 2007, spoke to a packed house at the chamber's 140th annual dinner, held at the Lancaster County Convention Center.
He cited the rise of China, the revolutions in the Arab world and the economic struggles of Europe as defining events shaping the course of world events. He pleaded for engagement with China and the Mideast and for a middle course on economics that balances medium-term deficit reduction with the need to spur economic growth.
Western countries, built on democracy, the rule of law and free enterprise, remain a model for the rest of the world, he said. The developed world must adapt to new circumstances, but it need not resign itself to decline, he said.
"The West," he said, "is not an empire built on interest, but a way of life built on values, values that are deeply embedded in the human spirit and are universal."
Following his speech, Blair discussed his current events and his legacy as prime minister in a question-and-answer session with chamber President Tom Baldrige.
He described Europe's fiscal crisis as a clash between politics and economics and called on Germany to make a "fundamental commitment" to preserving the euro. Though he supported Britain joining the euro, he acknowledged it is fortunate the country remains on the pound.
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From John Main OSB, "The Wholeness of God," MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 83-85.
We have to learn, and it is absolutely necessary that we do learn it, that only one thing is necessary, because only one thing is.
All of us must therefore address our own lack of discipline. We must bring our restless wandering minds to stillness. It is one of the first great lessons in humility we learn, when we realize that we come to wisdom and stillness, and we pass beyond distraction, only through the gift of God. . . .[A]ll we have to do is to dispose ourselves, and this we do by becoming silent, to the infinity of God. We learn to be silent by being content to say our mantra in humble fidelity.
It is as though the mystery of God is a wonderful multi-faceted diamond. When we talk or think about God it is as though we are responding to one or another facet, but when we are silent—which is to say, in his presence—we respond to the mystery which we call God as a whole. . . The wonder of it is that it is the whole of us that responds to the entirety of the mystery of God. It is not just our intellect, not just our emotions, not just the "religious" side of us or the "secular" side of us.[. . . ..]
People often ask, "What is the experience of prayer like?" By that they mean, "What happens? What is it like?" It is like silence. And what happens? In the silence—peace. In the silence—presence. And deeper silence. The way into that silence requires great patience, great fidelity and it requires. . .that we learn to say our mantra. As John Cassian said, the mantra contains all the human mind can express and all the human heart can feel. That one little word conveys and leads us into the silence which is the silence of creative energy. How long this takes is of no concern to us. "To the Lord a thousand years are as a day." The only thing that matters is that we are on the way.
After meditation: "Snow Fall," by May Sarton, Collected Poems: 1930-1993 (Norton, 1992), noted in The Writer's Almanac, 2.2.213.
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SAP came late to the supplier-relationship management software dance. But it's making up for lost time.
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Poised somewhere between underground cult status and mainstream success, Brandon Graham is one of those rare cartoonists; producing deeply individual creator owned material in an environment that all too often turns its nose up at anything that doesn't fit into a spandex bodysuit.
He's survived corporate reshuffles, the cancellation of his series 'King City' and even a bout of cancer. In the face of overwhelming odds, he's continued to forge his own path, making unique comics on his own terms.
Graham bridges the gap between underground comix, manga and street art to produce dizzyingly detailed and refreshingly fun comics. His pages bristle with an explosive energy that threatens to run off in a million different directions all at once, yet his stories hang together with zen like cohesion. His comics reflect the ordered chaos of modern life, both serious and funny, ugly and beautiful.
With his successfully resurrected series 'King City' now fast approaching its conclusion, I went in search of Seattle's very own catmaster, seeking ancient comix wisdom.
Exquisite Things: You often describe King City as a spy comic about friendship and getting over heartbreak. Twelve issues in, do you still see the comic in the same way, or has the scope of the book evolved as you've gone along?
Brandon Graham: It's still about friendship and dealing with life, but over the course of the series I also got really into it being a reaction to living in cities. Originally I wanted to call the comic 'Catmaster' but Tokyopop asked me to change the title. I think that it being named after the place really affected how I went about it. I remember my first reaction to the name change being "shit, now they can't leave the city".
Exquisite Things: I think the city itself is half the charm of the comic. Do you find you draw on your own surroundings and experiences when creating the urban sprawl of King City?
Brandon Graham: Yeah, a lot of King City is a reflection of how I feel about Seattle and New York.
I remember one time after being gone from Seattle for months, taking the bus from the airport and getting off in my old West Seattle neighbourhood. The first guy I walked past asked me for a smoke, when I said I didn't smoke he yells "yeah you better keep walking!"
The nonsensical abuse of a city.
I've lived in big cities my whole life and they still amaze me, just how much is going on all at once and the history of what's gone on in any one place. I remember walking through Seattle's china town with a friend of mine explaining how all these plain looking buildings we were passing had great histories; how one had a secret gambling den in the basement years ago, or how Bruce lee had worked as a waiter in another. I want to try to capture some of that feeling of mystery in my stuff.
Exquisite Things: Tokyopop went through a fairly dramatic restructure in 2008, which saw the cancellation of many titles including King City. You're now working in partnership with Image comics to release it as single issues. Was it always your intention to present King City in this format and how instrumental were Image in getting the comic back on track?
Brandon Graham: The whole thing would have been impossible without Image, those guys really put in the work to talk Tokyopop into a co publishing deal. I can't say enough nice things about the guys at Image. Eric Stephenson and Joe Keatinge especially, It was 8 months of meetings for a book that I don't think they expected to make much, if any money at all.
Getting it put out as single issues was ideal. It's how I like to read comics.
Exquisite Things: Was it difficult coming back to King City after such an extended hiatus? I know you had a lot to deal with in the interim period, including a bout of cancer, which isn't exactly something you recover from fast. That, and all the red tape around getting the series up and running again must have been a lot to have to contend with.
Brandon Graham: Yeah, it was a lot to wade through in the course of getting the series done.
I feel like whatever comic I'm doing, life is always going to get in the way. I've gotten pretty used to switching gears, it's kind of the nature of the beast. I try to focus on whatever page or scene I'm on. Coming back to the characters was easy, it was more reminding myself what the plans for the plot were, which I just ended up rewriting anyway.
I have this idea that there's a time limit on ideas, so if I let them sit for too long I need to come up with new ones so they're fresh enough to execute how I'd planned. If anything the cancer and legal shit were grist for the mill. I'd probably be worse off if nothing exciting ever got in the way of making comics, I'd have less to write about.
Exquisite Things: King City has an incredibly distinct visual identity, one which draws on everything from classic European sci-fi comics to street art. There's an economy of line to your work that's reminiscent of Tezuka, but with a penchant for sprawling, highly detailed backdrops in the vein of European artists like Moebius. Whilst it's clear that you've drawn inspiration from a diverse range of sources, you've definitely got your own unique artistic style. Could you tell us a little about your influences and how you developed your present style?
Brandon Graham: I was exposed to a ton of great comics really early on. My older brother Keith brought home a lot of European, Japanese and underground comics when we were growing up. I don't think I'll ever get over what he had on his book shelves. My brother being into all kinds of underground culture just gave me this idea that you have to dig for the best stuff.
I was mostly influenced by manga as a teenager, and I remember my brother giving me grief about my drawings being too based around big eyes. He had me draw a page of facial expressions showing emotions in non cliché ways. And later, when I was 19 I did a series called October Yen with Antarctic press about a robot without a face to force myself into showing emotions without the crutch of a face.
In my late teens I was really into the Seattle graffiti scene. That was a huge influence on my outlook on art and style.
Exquisite Things: How did you first get involved in street art, and how did those experiences make it back into your comics?
Brandon Graham: As much as I always liked comics and always identified myself as a comic artist there wasn't any kind of comic scene that I was involved with in Seattle. Plus there was so much exciting stuff going on in Graffiti in the 90's, it was hard to ignore. When I started getting seriously into it, my pal Ludroe was adamant that if I was was going to do it, I would have to understand it. So he gave me all these books on the history of hip hop and really pushed the idea that it's a culture that you have to earn to be part of.
Also, just the snarky fun of running around drawing on things that you aren't supposed to. I remember one day, back when Magic cards were a big deal there was a Wizards of the Coast building in Seattle's U district, with a sandwich board in front of it that had a clear plastic cover, with and ad for whatever they were promoting at the time. Ludroe pulled the paper out of it, flipped it over and put it back with a giant hand with its middle finger up drawn on it. And then we just sat on the corner and cracked up seeing this big fuck you sign on the street.
Plus it seems like graffiti is really a cousin of comics. Aside from it being so influenced by comics, they're both about combining words and drawings.
Exquisite Things: Vaughn Bode is one of the few cartoonists whose work seems to have become synonymous with graffiti art. Was his work an inspiration to you in any way?
Brandon Graham: Bode was a huge influence on graffiti, he didn't really live to see how much he affected an entire art form. But yeah, he's a big influence on my stuff, his use of color and letters and that great sense of humor in his work. There's this one strip where a lizard is staring at a phallic looking robot and says "you look like a god damn tin penis" I can't even think about that without cracking up.
I think doing one page comics as well as he did is really amazing. I think about that density a lot; how Bode and George Herriman, who did Krazy Kat, are able to convey such complete stories in just one page. With work like that out there you've got no excuse for not making a 20 page comic dense and fun.
Exquisite Things: King City reminds me a little of Carla Speed McNeil's series 'Finder', specifically in the way that you treat the city as a character unto itself. There's a level of detail to your environments that makes the city just as interesting as its inhabitants. How important is world building to King City?
Brandon Graham: I really like what McNeil does, she's amazing. Playing around with the environments your characters live in is so much fun. It's hard to leave that kind of thing alone once you realize that you can tell a story about anything you want to. You can't help wanting to delve into what's behind all the doors and windows that you've drawn.
Exquisite Things: You seem just as interested in the incidental and the random as you are with the overarching plot of King City. The comic is both dense AND decompressed without being at odds with itself. How on earth do you go about achieving that balance?
Brandon Graham: It's really important to me to go with my interest rather than just follow a plot. I try to have as much fun as I can, but I also try to make issues that hold up by themselves. There's a Raymond Chandler introduction that I always think about where he talks about wanting his books to be good even if you read a copy that's missing the beginning and the end.
That's one of the reasons I have chapters in King City. I want the chapters to hold up by themselves, even if they're just two pages long. Plus I was so used to writing short stories, so it was less daunting to treat it as a bunch of shorter chapters, rather than some 12 issue monster.
Exquisite Things: Taking a moment to focus on the cast of King City, I wanted to ask about Joe and his multi-talented cat Earthling J. Catingsworth III. Earthling's quite the sidekick, enough to make anyone want a super intelligent weaponised feline companion. How did you first come up with the whole 'Catmaster' concept? Mastering a cat can't be easy…
Brandon Graham: The original idea was to create a James Bond type character in a suit. He'd have a suitcase with a serious weapon in it… and when he pulls it out… it's just a cat!
Exquisite Things: Now I'm stuck with the mental image of Sean Connery wielding a cat. So… how did you get from that, to a main character like Joe?
Brandon Graham: In that early version, the owls were the main focus and the catmaster was just a side character. I abandoned it about ten pages in but I liked the idea of a catmaster, so I tried to come up a character I could relate to.
Joe was based on a photo of a surfer I saw, that and old 70's Savage Sword Conan.
Exquisite Things: Your wife Marian Churchland and Ludroe both designed their own cat masters for the comic, both of which showed up in issue eleven. How did those designs come about?
Brandon Graham: I wanted the other catmasters to feel like they were main characters in their own stories. Also I thought it would be cool to let my friends who I'd based so much of the story on to have a stab at it. I wish I'd had more pages to add in side stories and extras by other friends.
When I was working on initial characters for the book I based Pete's character on Ludroe's personality. Physically there's no resemblance, Ludroe's a thinner guy than Pete, and it's hard to tell in the comic but Pete is meant to be Thai. His full name is Pete Thaifighter. So when Ludroe gave me his catmaster character design it was interesting that he also made him a chubby dude. So I ended up having two characters based on the same person, just different aspects of that person.
The other catmaster that shows up is based on Marian's best friend Claire that lives down the street from us. She's the Vancouver BC catmaster. I had big plans to show even more cat masters from all over.
Exquisite Things: Speaking of ladies, King City has its fair share of gorgeous women, and certainly doesn't shy away from sex. What surprised me about the book's erotic content was the way you approached it, in so much that it actually adds depth to the characters and their relationships. I get the impression you're not overly interested in 'cheesecake' for the sake of it? At least not in a comic like King City...
Brandon Graham: Sure, I really like drawing and looking at that stuff but I don't want to be just some pin up dude just drawing empty women.
Exquisite Things: I can understand you wouldn't want to be type cast in that way. I know you've also worked on adult comics like 'Perverts of the Unknown' and 'Pillow Fight' but there's still a level of depth to those that makes them very entertaining comics in their own right. You seem to take immense pleasure in simply having fun with the medium, adult orientated or not.
Brandon Graham: Thanks, those were fun to do. I wanted to make dirty joke books instead of something just to masturbate to. I do feel like I never quite got everything I wanted into my porn comics. They seems to require a very different kind of comic science, with closer shots and more facial expressions.
I wish I'd made the characters more diverse in Pillow Fight, but they all kind of seem to look like the same girl. At the time they were the only paying work in comics I could get, but in retrospect I'm glad I was doing that and not some low end superhero comics. It did give me the freedom to have as much fun as I could... as long as there was sex.
Exquisite Things: Do you foresee a time when there's a more widespread acceptance of sexually explicit content in mainstream comics? What do you make of recent attempts, such as Alan Moore's Lost Girls to present porn as something with genuine artistic and emotional value?
Brandon Graham: I do think sex is something worthy of real and expressive art. It's defiantly a big part of being human. I'm hoping to do some work in the future that has more sex, but where it isn't the main focus of the book. As far as widespread acceptance, I imagine not... these Romans are crazy.
Exquisite Things: Do you believe that porn and serious storytelling can co-exist side by side? Given your background with adult comics is this something that interests you?
Brandon Graham: I definitely think the two can co-exist, and there are plenty of books where it's been done really well. I'm trying a minor version of that in my next book 'Multiple Warheads'.
The focus is on the relationship between a couple, but I'll also be including sex scenes as and when they happen. I do worry that a few pages of sex might be enough to overpower the content of the rest of the book, but I think it's something worth doing.
Recently I've been reading 'Omaha the Cat Dancer' where the mix of the two is done very well. There also this web comic called 'Effort Comics', which gets it right too.
Exquisite Things: It's good to hear that Multiple Warhead will be returning to the racks, that's exciting stuff. Can you tell us a little more about where you're going with it?
Brandon Graham: I'm about 70 pages into it right now and I'm having a great time with it.
It's set in a fictional future fantasy Russia and it's about an organ smuggler named Sexica and her boyfriend Nikoli, who has a werewolf penis sewn onto him. When he sleeps he dreams of the wolf's old life. They also have a car in it named Lenin (because it's not Stalin) and as the story goes on the car's parts get replaced with different animal parts, so it slowly turns into a living thing.
It's a lot more complex than anythijng I've done before, and where King city had a limited amount of issues I could see myself making 'Multiple Warheads' books for another 10 to 15 years.
Exquisite Things: Coming back to King City for a moment, now that the series is approaching its 12th, and possibly final issue, how do you feel about the series as a whole? I sincerely hope we'll be seeing more King City in the future?
Brandon Graham: It's really forced me to mature into a real adult comic artist as opposed to the porn comics "adult" artist I've been in the past.
In the last issue I have a scene that happens in front of the same row of vending machines that I drew in the first issue, and just drawing the same place was so completely different because of how I draw now.
I hope I'll be able to do more of it too. The rights are just screwy with Tokyopop but I've got some plans for short comics with Joe and the cat, even if they just show up on my Livejournal.
Exquisite Things: Is there likely to be a new TPB collection which encompasses the entire run? I heard rumours of a lavish French boxed set… Should we all start brushing up on our French?
Brandon Graham: The French have put out the first book so far, they mentioned a box set but they've only just got the last pages recently. They've really put in some work translating it all, they even redid all the graffiti in the backgrounds.
I'm not sure about an English language collection yet, I'd like there to be one. Like I said, the rights to the book are a mess. Part of me likes how it's just single issues right now, but I realize it's not the easiest comic to get hold of. A collection would help with that.
Exquisite Things: Besides King City and Multiple Warheads, do have you got any other projects on the boil right now?
I've got a 300 page collection of some of my older stuff and a bunch of art that I'll hopefully get together soon. There's always a ton of side stuff that I hope to get to. I've got a detective thing called 'Rain like Hammers' that I want to do as a one shot after I get a big chunk of Multiple warheads out there.
Brandon Graham: Are there any comics that are blowing your mind right now? Any creators you feel are doing real groundbreaking stuff?
Oh yeah, there's a ton. One of the things that frustrates me about the comics industry is that I can name 50 amazing artists but if I go into a comic store this week there's a good chance I'd find nothing new that I wanted.
I like my pal James Stokoe's 'Orc Stain' a lot and Adam Warren's 'Empowered' has been really fun. 'The Dammed' that Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt are doing is also good stuff. I also just read 'Monsters' by Ken Dahl, that's a really fantastic book.
Here's a few links of some artist I'm really excited about right now:
John Kantz
Simon Roy
Jordyn F. Bochon
Giannis Milonogiannis
Farel Dalrymple
Tom Herpich
and my misses, Marian Churchland
Exquisite Things: Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to me, any closing remarks or shout outs?
Brandon Graham: Thanks for letting me talk at you.
As much as I may have issues with the industry at times, I really think it's a great time to be reading and making comics.
And I'll howl at Meathaus--my old NYC comic book gang!
Interview by Matthew Dick, with thanks and kudos to Brandon Graham.
Related links:
Brandon Graham's Live Journal
Image Comics
Monday, 27 September 2010
Comix, Catmasters and Conurbations - The Brandon Graham Interview
Posted by Matt @ Exquisite Things at 03:59
Labels: Brandon Graham, Image Comics, King City, Multiple Warheads
4 comments:
- samax said...
Brandon is one of my favorite artists these days. This is a FABULOUS interview!
- 17 October 2010 at 03:50
- 林翊娟 said...
- 17 October 2010 at 23:10
- 2D Cloud said...
Great interview Matt! I've seen some of Brandon's work in Meathuas in the past. His King City stuff looks great, I'll have to check it out!
- 9 November 2010 at 06:55
fantastic, thanks!
- 27 November 2011 at 23:43
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Open Your Eyes
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What do you see, nurses, what do you see,
what are you thinking when you're looking at me?
A crabby old woman, not very wise,
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Who dribbles her food and makes no reply
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Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse, you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am as I sit here so still,
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I'm a small child of ten with a father and mother,
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A woman of thirty, my young now grown fast,
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At fifty once more babies play round my knee,
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After seeing some bare-naked PCB's at a recent event, we asked MSI to send us some of their PCB's butt-naked so we could take a closer look and share with you how silicon and copper can look so damn good.
Let's have a look at the video and some pictures. (Warning. The following video contains graphic images of Printed Circuit Boards).
Being able to sit these PCB's side-by-side, you can really appreciate the nuance of each product. From the glossy sheen on the G43 as opposed to the matt-type of black on the Z87 MPower. Or, that the MPower has more MOSFET's over the GD65 Gaming motherboard - something that you wouldn't of necessarily noticed if these PCB's were fully dressed.
Generally speaking, things look better naked, and these motherboards are a testament to that. They have that hypnotic feel about them when they catch your eye and catch your eye they do. We like them so much that we're planning on framing these to put up around the OC3D office.
We would love to hear what you think about these very unique and interesting motherboard examples in our forums. Go on, you know you want to - naughty, naughty.


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Guess I need to look for a small flat belt supplier.
PS Not sure anyone is interested in this or not but I'll keep chugging along. Someone maybe thinking of or has done one before. Until tomorrow then, I'll get started on the rest of the build.
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By Michael Hogan
John Bannan believes in the power of education. He also believes that when you see a need, you should try to do something to meet it. These beliefs led him to form the Philadelphia Children's Foundation (PCF) in 2006, a non-profit organization that seeks to meet the needs of Philadelphia's school aged youth in unique ways.
Located in Chestnut Hill Tower at 7600 Stenton Ave., Suite 1-B, the foundation began as a clearinghouse of online information for students, parents, teachers and administrators, and has become much larger by offering recycled computers, books, guest speakers, career clubs and workplace tours. PCF's mission is to help children of all ages find their passion, develop needed skills and make positive career and life decisions to achieve a successful future.
Mr. Bannan, who requested that his age not be mentioned, has been interested in social justice since his high school days at St. Joseph's Prep in North Philadelphia and his college days at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was a student advisor.
As a young student he was well aware of the great inequity he saw all around him. "Here in Philadelphia we have a 27% poverty rate, and 41% of households in the city don't even have a computer," John said. "Kids living in the city have so few options, but I think we underestimate as a society what these kids are capable of achieving if just given the opportunity."
And opportunity is what the Philadelphia Children's Foundation is all about. In the past five years the foundation has worked for thousands of kids in more than a dozen city schools, including Germantown, Edison, Frankford, Overbrook and Bartram High Schools. The online resource guide (www.philly-connect.org), coordinated by Mayu Nakamura, continues to be updated and expanded. Hundreds of donated computers, refurbished by Ranee Grant, have been distributed to families in need. Dozens of guest speakers, coordinated by Christina Chiolo, have opened students' eyes to the professional possibilities around them. And Tia Diggs, Director of Programming, continues to find new and exciting ways to get kids out of their everyday environment and into workplaces around the city that they never even knew existed.
In addition, the foundation collects books and donates them to school libraries, which is coordinated by Maysa Alijafari. John says that about half of Philadelphia's public schools don't even have libraries, and PCF will have donated about 7,000 books this year alone.
Of course, to keep programs like these running, the foundation needs donations and volunteers. "Anyone can help," John said. "We have positioned ourselves to expand easily, but we need help to do that. We've had great success with all of our programs. I don't think people realize just how much they would be appreciated by going into these schools and talking to the kids."
In fact, there are many ways to get involved. Obviously, computer and book donations are needed. However, Bannan hopes that more people will get actively involved. "We've tried to put together a menu so that people can help us in whatever way they can," he said. They need volunteers to help out in the office, on field trips and with the foundation's fundraisers, which include the Philadelphia Children's Foundation Regatta and the Turn and Burn Regatta.
Those regattas are particularly close to John's heart. As a student athlete and later a coach, he has spent many years on the water rowing. He was a full-time sales and marketing professional, but his true passion, which he did part-time, was as a rowing coach. He has coached high-level teams at St. Joseph's University, Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1977 he was a member of the U.S. National Rowing Team, and in 1984 he was one of the coaches for the U.S. Olympic Team. He stopped coaching in 1987 after his first daughter was born, making the decision to be a hands-on dad. That decision led him to become very involved at the Henry School in Mt. Airy, which his children attended. "The Henry School is a great place for kids," he said, "but it brought me back to that realization that there are some kids and schools that have so much, while there are so many that have so little."
The Philadelphia Children's Foundation is a United Way designated organization agency # 47532 and accepts private and corporate donations. Monetary contributions not only help expand PCF programs but are also essential to funding the core operations. "When the state budget collapsed," John said, "we had to shift gears to smaller, in-school, common sense solutions. But we still have a lot of good ideas that we want to implement."
He said the foundation wants to reach more kids in more schools throughout the city. But they need your help to do that. "I like to hope that we can do more to have thousands of people work with us over time to go into city schools and talk with students so that they can envision the possibilities. Like-minded companies such as Comcast and Sunoco would be a great partner to help us achieve our goals," John said with the determination one would expect from a former Olympic coach, adding with motivational zeal, "We can all work together to help kids!"
Bannan lives in Mt. Airy with his wife of 31 years, Christine. They have two daughters, Elizabeth and Valerie. More information at firstname.lastname@example.com or www.philadelphiachildrensfoundation.org, where you can check out their Facebook page for photos and stories.