Emmy award winning artist, Dean Haspiel is a native New Yorker who created the Eisner Award nominated Billy Dogma, the semi-autobiographical Street Code, and helped pioneer personal webcomics with the invention of ACT-I-VATE.com.
Dino has collaborated on many great superhero and semi-autobiographical comic books published by Marvel, DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Image, Top Shelf, Scholastic, Toon Books, Playboy, and the New York Times, including collaborations with Harvey Pekar, Jonathan Ames, Jonathan Lethem, and Inverna Lockpez on the Harvey Award winning, Cuba: My Revolution, and draws for SyFy’s Warehouse 13 and HBO’s Bored To Death, for which he won an Emmy for his contributions to the opening title sequence.
Dean is a founding member of HANG DAI Studios in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn and steeps in psychotronic movies, cosmic electronica, and Jack Kirby pulp.
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Love it. Reminded me of an old Twilight Zone or Outer Limits but with current concerns – an SF idea that is actually a little morality play. Dean – the transition of colour/time is so simple but so effective. Flawless execution of a good idea, gents.
Smooth as silk, creepy as hell: beautifully done, you guys. Chapter one of something wonderful?
Gorgeous work, gentlemen. As an ex-embalmer, I’m saddened to think there’s no future for the trocar. Pesky immortality. More, pretty please!
I love it, definitely want to see more!
I get blank pages when I tried to read the comic on several different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE). I see the title page, comments and the control buttons but nothing happens when I select the forward/back buttons. Is this comic locked for US-only readers or something? Is there somewhere else that I can access the comic in a less-complicated way?
Robert–I don’t know why that’s happening; it’s been fine for me in Vista/Win7/Mac (Chrome & FF), and I don’t want to anger the mighty Tor web-god(dess(es)), but if you try this string
and just change the “1.jpg” to 2.jpg, 3.jpg, etc. up to 16.jpg, you’ll be able to read through it. Clunky, but it should bypass whatever conflict your browsers might be having.
And the rest of you–thanks for your incredibly kind comments, they mean a lot.
Tim
It just occurred to me, Robert–you’re looking below the controls for the images, right? I was a bit confused myself at first, because on my laptop I could only see down as far as the controls…the images fall below the controls. Just fyi…
My apologies Robert. (And Tim and Dean) It seems to be working on our end but I’ll forward your message to our tech group.
Thank you for the wonderful comic.
The family sent my father to his eternal rest on Wednesday of this week. While I was gravely ill this summer recovering after complications from a triple cardiac bypass, my father and I had many conversations on life and death. I think my father would have enjoyed your final comment that we are simply not made to last for eternity.
An intriguing idea…and eeriely executed.
There’d still be accidents and murders and other crimes, of course, but the premise provokes the idea of–if they can grant immortality, then surely they can synthesise oxytocin, so you’re permanently in love? Or does marriage become a seven year contract, renegotiable after that time without penalty (that’d put a lot of lawyers out, never mind morticians!) (There’d be a new type of greetings card necessary, too — congratulations on your renegotiation)
Wouldn’t be too long until the population dwindled due to murder, accidents and suicides. Really creepy thought. Last man standing? Bye-bye human race. :o
Smooth as hell, creepy as silk. Wait, that doesn’t sound right…
I love this! More, more, more please!!
Wew. Mortifying. I mean scary. A scary vision of the future.
Have to go on … forever?!?
“There’s a difference between living and not dying.”
Great line!
Excellent! Great writing and art- congratulations. I’d love to see more~
Poignant subject.
Gorgeous work, Tim & Dean. Encore! Frightening in its oddly believable premise…. We humans blindly forge ahead in the name of progress alone, never truly considering the consequences. You’ve embraced an essential theme of modern life and executed it masterfully. Keep the great work coming!
I like it! But I think people would have their children and then take the treatment, and the world would overpopulate quickly. Then some governments would make the law that you couldn’t take the treatment if you already had kids (or more than one, or more than two, or something) and social chaos would ensue.
Thats the stuff,thank you.!!
M.Floberg