Check out our new New Orleans Webcomic, A.D.: After the Deluge, penned by American Splendor artist Josh Neufeld!

SHOOTING WAR is a full-color 192-page hardcover graphic novel published by Grand Central Publishing (US) and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK).

Available in the United Kingdom from Amazon.co.uk and Waterstones.
Available in the United States from Amazon.com, Powells.com, Barnes & Noble.com or your local comics shop.

Shooting War Book Tour

Tuesday, Feb. 12: Shooting War: Iraq, the media and the future of citizen journalism: A conversation with Anthony Lappé and Dan Goldman. New York Public Library, Midtown branch, 40th St. and 5th Ave., 6th Floor, 6:30 PM

Feb. 18: Featured Speaker, Anthony Lappé. National Association for Campus Activities Conference, St. Louis.

March 4th: Shooting War author Anthony Lappé discusses the media and the war in Iraq. Think Coffee, 240 Mercer St., NYC 7PM

March 10th: Dan Goldman presenting at “Book Readings” at SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX

April 18: Dan Goldman moderating “Digital Arts and Comics” Panel Moderator at New York Comic-Con. Javitz Center, NYC

April 30-May 3: Shooting War author Anthony Lappé @ the Debord Conference. Sponsor: Empório de Produção & Comunicação. São Paulo, Brazil

June 2: Dan and Anthony present Shooting War @ the Luminato Festival of Arts and Creativity, Toronto



For more information, download the Shooting War Press Release





February 4th, 2008

Shooting War: Big in Japan, @ the Library

Shooting War artist Dan Goldman is interviewed in a feature on Shooting War Tokyo’s massive circ. Daily Yomiuri. The always insightful Chris Arnet over at Newsarama also caught up with the hardest working man in comics, for this update on Shooting War and Dan’s next zeitgeist-surfing project, the campaign diary 08, with New Republic editor Michael Crowley.

Finally, for those of you in the New York area, Dan and Anthony will presenting their multi-media presentation at the New York Public Library’s main branch on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 PM. If you haven’t got a chance to check out our Keynote extravaganza, this may be the last time in NYC for a while. (Note: Thanks to everyone who came out to the Library of Congress and the Modernist Society event at Bourbon in DC. Both events, in their own special way, rocked. As did the bourbon.)

And for any aspiring Jimmy Burnses out there who are interested in the intersection of citizen journalism and democracy, be sure to check Video the Vote. Shooting War author Anthony Lappé is helping the non-partisan citizen journalism/democracy watchdog group monitor and upload video of election irregularities. If you haven’t signed up, learn how you can help in November’s general election.

January 28th, 2008

Shooting War in the nation’s capital

The Modernist Society presents a conversation about “Shooting War” with author Anthony Lappé

“A stunningly rendered graphic novel that manages to stick a red-hot skewer into the war on terror, Islamic jihad, the mainstream media and the antiestablishment blogosphere in one fell swoop.” – Newsweek

“Fierce, shocking, over-the-top, and wickedly smart.” – New York magazine

“A satire that could serve as the Apocalypse Now of the War on Terrorism.” – Forbes.com

Come hear author, blogger and filmmaker Anthony Lappé discuss his new graphic novel about the media and the war in Iraq in the year 2011. Drinks, DJ to follow.

Sponsors: shootingwar.com, themodernist.com, www.politics-prose.com

THURSDAY, JAN. 31
Modernist Society
Bourbon Bar, Washington DC, 2321 18th St NW
9:00 PM

Earlier in the day, Anthony will be appearing at the Library of Congress, for a talk hosted by the Professional Association Veteran’s Forum:

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
101 Independence Ave. SE
Madison Bldg, Dining Room A, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20540

January 22nd, 2008

Reasonable dragons

A podcast of a lively interview on the Dragon Page’s Coast to Coast radio show is available here. Also up is a new review from libertarian magazine, Reason. Read it here.

January 17th, 2008

Who is Jimmy Burns?

Shooting War author Anthony Lappé is interviewed by NYC’s top blog, Gothamist.

Q: How much of yourself is in Shooting War’s protagonist, Jimmy Burns?
A: I’d say a lot.

Read the full interview here.

January 16th, 2008

Life imitating art, imitating art imitating life, oh, forget it…

For those interested, Shooting War author Anthony Lappé be making what is fast becoming a weekly appearance via satellite on the London-based Sky News’ Sky.com ‘net news wrap-up show. He’ll be steaming live at 2:30 EST - 7:30 GMT. I don’t believe there is an archive. Yes, Sky News is owned by Rupert Murdoch. And yes, it’s sort of like Shooting War come to life…

Sky.com on Sky News

January 16th, 2008

Shooting War in BK

Shooting War is finally coming home to where it all began - beautiful Brooklyn. Please join me and my main man Sander Hicks for a lively behind-the-scenes account of the making of the book followed by some of Brooklyn’s finest underground political rappers. The beer is organic and so are the rhymes.

Brooklyn Release Party at Vox Pop featuring author Anthony Lappé (8:30 PM presentation) + the best of Brooklyn’s Live Hip Hop:

Tah Phrum Duh Bush
Hired Gun
Super King Armor
Tranquill

Just added:
Loki Da Trixta
Saga

Friday January 18, 2008
$8 cover 8 PM door
Vox Pop, 1022 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn

“Part bookstore, coffee bar, performance space, instant publishing center, community center, Vox Pop is sort of a live blog, with tons of atmosphere and cultural vitality.” - Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn

Or buy the book at the door, for $19.99 ($2 off the cover price!) and get a free drink, too!

All the details and directions here.

January 10th, 2008

Dan in Florida

Coming straight from New Hampshire, where he’s gathering material for his next project, 08, a gonzo campaign trail nonfiction account written by the New Republic’s Michael Crowley, the hardest working man in comics is in sunny Florida tonight. You can catch Shooting War artist Dan Goldman at the always awesome Books and Books at 8:00 PM (265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, FL, 33134). For more info, check out the newly pimped out: dangoldman.net.

January 10th, 2008

Shooting War on Al Jazeera

Shooting War’s trailer (animated by our friends at Grand Theft Country, and directed by Shooting War author Anthony Lappé) caps the holiday special for The Listening Post, a media show hosted by former ABC News correspondent Richard Gizbert on Al Jazeera English:

Watch it on Anthony’s blog here.

Special thanks to everyone who helped pack the house at Anthony’s event at McNally Robinson in NYC Tuesday night.

January 5th, 2008

Hey Nolita hipsters

Anthony is going to be doing a Q&A with NYU prof and media gadfly Mark Crispin Miller on Tuesday at New York’s coolest independent book store, McNally Robinson at Prince and Mulberry Streets at 7:00 PM.

December 23rd, 2007

Happy Holidays from Mister Goldman


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