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Al's Comics
1803 Market St. San Francisco
4-10-08, 1-4pm

I will be promoting the release of the second issue of The Boy Who Made Silence on Saturday, May 10 from 1-4pm with a signing event at Al's Comics in San Francisco (1803 Market St.).

I will have both versions of issue one (5MF and AAM/Markosia) along with issue two available and will be happy to sign copies. If you have a previous copy that you would like signed, you are more than welcome to bring it in.

In addition, I will have a limited supply of the original art from the book on sale. The going rate for original pages is $300, as well as individual panels on sale from $30-$75. In addition, Artist X-Change in San Francisco has new art from the series on display in the gallery.

Issue 2 is now available at comic shops everywhere and is available to order online as well. Some of you will be glad to know that Last Gasp is now distributing the original self-published edition and will be distributing subsequent issues in limited quantities. This will help place the book in more indy-friendly shops, which I know most of you on my mailing list probably prefer.

If you need more information about the signing, please contact Allen Kizziah at alscomics2005 at yahoo dot com

Here's some art

I will be in New York for the Comic Con this weekend-April 18-20, signing at the AAM/Markosia booth. This marks the release of issue 2 of The Boy Who Made Silence!

Here's a page from an upcoming issue of The Boy Who Made Silence.

5 Mined Fields Studio presents A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape, new work by Mark Baugh Sasaki


Opening Reception

Please join us on Friday, March 28 from 7-10pm for the second installment of a series of exhibitions being held at 5 Mined Fields Studio with special guest artist Mark Baugh-Sasaki, one of the Bay Area's favorite up and coming sculptors. Focusing on the human propensity to force nature into use, Baugh-Sasaki invents thoughtful and dramatic forms that deliver conceptually as well as aesthetically.

A Field Guide to the Post-Industrial Landscape debuts exclusively at:

5 Mined Fields Studio, 2745 10th St. Berkeley, CA 94710, www.markbaugh-sasaki.com, www.5minedfields.com

For more information please contact Joshua Hagler at 5minedfields@gmail.com

The Art of The Boy Who Made Silence
A.Muse Gallery
614 Alabama St. San Francisco
Friday, March 21, 7-11pm
http://www.yourmusegallery.com/exhibits.html

I will be offering a free copy of issue one to anyone who buys a piece of art. Art ranges anywhere from $10 to $5000. There is something for everyone. I will also be offering free posters to those who pre-order issue 2.

Here's a choppy time lapse of my 20 hr. install at the gallery.

Want to see a better one? www.myspace.com/theboywhomadesilence

I am excited to announce that book one of the series The Boy Who Made Silence will be in stores soon. For those of you who don't know, AAM/Markosia took over publishing after I spent a year self-publishing the book. They will be printing the full monthly series, which includes two six-issue volumes.

To preorder from Diamond, please refer to these order #'s:

JAN08-3284 Boy who made silence #1............SRP: $3.99
FEB08 3388 BOY WHO MADE SILENCE #2 ............SRP: $3.50

Please view these never-before-seen pages from upcoming issues of the series just below the press release.

Press Release

Winner of the coveted Xeric Grant, the debut issue of The Boy Who Made Silence was originally self-published by internationally exhibited painter and creator Joshua Hagler. The series now has a home at AAM Markosia, publisher of such titles as King Kong, Starship Troopers and indie fav Headlocked.

In The Boy Who Made Silence, deaf child Nestor Gudfred inexplicably creates utter silence around him, which compels the people near him into each other's pasts and memories. As his religious rural community looks to him as a prophet, the story follows Nestor and a diverse cast of richly imagined characters as he comes of age, falls in love, and begins a search for his father.

The series has received advance praise from many of the best talents in the industry:

"Hagler's debut issue is an impressive start. Not only can Hagler paint, but he has the proper focus on telling the story. It's subtle, understated work. And it's beautifully reproduced -- the colours are rich and vibrant, in a way that makes everything else l've read this week look washed out and cheaply printed." -- Paul O'Brien, X-Axis

"Brilliant, beautiful, original, authentic, and inspiring! One of the best comic book reading experiences I've had in a long time." -- David Mack, author and artist of Kabuki

"In his first work... Hagler finds his true voice. And this is just the art alone, to say nothing of the moody and reflective impressionistic story [upon which] he effortlessly floats us along..." -- Sam Kieth, author and artist of The Maxx, Zero Girl, Ojo

The Boy Who Made Silence #1
Joshua Hagler (Story and Art)
Thomas Mauer (letters)
Full Color
36 Pages
$3.99 / £2.00

So, before my wife and I left for Europe to spend time with family here for the next three weeks, I was working like a dog until the AM hours on a regular basis. Despite all the work, some things I simply did not have time for, such as promoting some important events I'm a part of as well as doing the usual updates. So this is my unfancy, remote way of doing it.

Most importantly I want to send out my profound thanks to everyone who helped support my work this year, especially after our fire in March. Because of that support, we were not only able to make it through the hard times, but we were also able to transcend the many social and economic burdens of treading the unrecommended murk of art making. Though without a permanent studio for four months, I like to think progress was made in the quality of the work presented this year and that you have hopefully received something of value from it, whatever that might be. So, again I thank everyone who has been a part of it in large and small ways.

Below are some current events, publications, and upcoming opportunities I'd like you to know about:

CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY:

Selections 2007
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
www.111minnagallery.com

This is a juried biennial. Twenty artists were hand-picked out of a few hundred local SF artists by jurors from the Oakland Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, and 111 Minna.

I currently have two works available:

"Prayers like Black Wells (the violent bear it away)"
"The Kingdom"
check the blog archives if you're curious, or go to www.joshuahagler.com



THE LITTLE SHOW
SWARM GALLERY, Oakland
www.swarmstudios.net

Work available: "Adalyn's First Day"
viewable in blog archives
work is coming down this weekend, not much time left.



VARNISH FINE ART, San Francisco
www.varnishfineart.com

Work available: "The Gambler"-contact gallery for photos



THE ARTIST X-CHANGE, San Francisco
www.artist-xchange.com

work available: several original pages from The Boy who Made Silence



CURRENT PUBLICATIONS:

MY INNER BIMBO
ONI PRESS
www.onipress.com

Issues 1-3 of the five-issue miniseries are currently available in finer comic shops. This is the collaboration I've been working on with Sam Kieth off and on for a couple of years now. Sam wrote and co-illustrated. It's a weird, brilliant, funny book and you should buy it for Christmas.


RECENT INTERVIEW:

Originally published on the Spraygraphic blog, it's shown up on two other blogs as well. Links below.

http://www.sprayblog.net/spraygraphic-interview-with-joshua-hagler/
http://www.urlfan.com/local/spraygraphic_interview_with_joshua_hagler/56939977.html
http://thevisualmovement.com/the-visual-movement-interview-with-joshua-hagler



UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:

BEHEMOTH
REAVES GALLERY, San Francisco
www.reavesgallery.com

OPENING RECEPTION: 1-11-08, check gallery website for times.

This is a two-person show with artist Mike Ritch (www.mikeritch.com) for which I have made specific work dealing with evolution and intelligent design. Please come out for this one if you have time.

work on view:
"Distant Past sprawls languid and wasteful into Present Future"
"Leviathan Disco"
"Dinosaur"
"God has only to Wink and the Earth is Pregnant with Jokes"



CLOSE CALLS
HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Sausalito

Opens on 1-13-07. Reception in February.

This is a juried exhibition of artists who were finalists for a handful of awards and residencies from the Headlands.

work on view: "When the lights came on in the middle of the night (POW!)..."



UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS:

PLASTIC ANTINOMY MAGAZINE (PRINT)
http://www.myspace.com/plasticantinomy

I was interviewed for a feature on 5 MINED FIELDS STUDIO in Plastic Antinomy Magazine's second issue, releasing next month (January). All about the 5 Mined Fields Concept, my art, and the artwork of artists showing in the space next year. Among others, Danielle Lawrence's work is featured. Lawrence will be showing in my space as discussed below...


UPCOMING EVENTS AT 5 MINED FIELDS STUDIO:

FALLING TOWARD FOREVER
CURRENT WORK BY DANIELLE LAWRENCE
5 MINED FIELDS STUDIO, Berkeley
OPENING RECEPTION: 1-26-08.
2745 10th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
510.666.9985

The Little Show
November 24 - December 23, 2007
Reception: Thursday, November 29, 6-9PM

No less than 100 pieces of artwork to choose from, created by some of the Bay Area's biggest artists. Start your art collection, make it bigger, or get your holiday shopping done early.

Opening reception and fabulous soiree, Thursday, November 29, 6-9PM

Participating Artists: Patricia Ancona, Lorene Anderson, Kathy Aoki, Laura Ball, Deborah Barrett, Steven R. Barich, Ray Beldner, Linda Braz, Allegra Burke, John Casey, Kirsten Chappa, Susan Chen, Jared Lindsay Clark, Lia Cook, Ben Cressy, Lauren Davies, Dana DeKalb, Jeff Eisenberg, Tara Foley, Erik Freidman, Terry Furry, Marianna Garibay, James Gayles, Kathy Graddy, Jackie Gratz, Lora Groves, Andrea Guskin, Elyse Hochstadt, Josh Hagler, Mayumi Hamanaka, Taro Hattori, Dave Higgins, Laura Kamian, Michael Kerbow, Sherry Koyama, Mary Anne Kluth, Lisa Kokin, Jaime Lakatos, Noah Lang, Christina La Sala, Hugh Livingston, Christopher Loomis, Jeremiah Maddoch, Paul Madonna, Michelle Mansour, Eileen Starr Moderbacher, Elise Morris, Gage Opdenbrouw, Nathaniel Parsons, Chris Pew, Lisa Perrott, Chris Powell, Michele Pred, Yuri Psinakis, Thomas Pratt, Ryan Reynolds, Walter Robinson, Andrew Romanoff, Bayete Ross Smith, Laurel Roth, Reuben Rude, Nadim Sabella, Andrew Schoultz, Jessica Serran, Ema Sintamarian, Casey Jex Smith, Travis Somerville, Kirsten Stolle, Kirk Stoller, Inez Storer, Sudhu Tewari, Josephine Taylor, Kevin E. Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Cleo Vilett, Andy Vogt, Stuart Wagner, Heather Wilcoxon, Christine Wong Yap, lauren woods, Mary Younkin, Dana Zed

Just finished this and wanted to post it. Also, just updated www.joshuahagler.com.

"Ancient Past Sprawls Languid and Wasteful into Present Future"
oil on two canvases
96" x 48"
2007

If you're in the Bay Area, I cordially invite you to come out for one of four weekends in which I will be opening 5 Mined Fields Studio to the public for the first time.

Here are the dates:

November 24th and 25th, 11-6pm daily
December 1-2,8-9,15-16, 11-6pm daily

Here is the place:

5 Mined Fields Studio
2745 Tenth St.
Berkeley

Enjoy light refreshments, paintings, illustrations, original art from The Boy Who Made Silence, and of course copies of the book and poster.

I am doing this as a part of Berkeley Artisan's Holiday Open Studios. Started originally by Susan Brooks seventeen years ago, Berkeley Artisan's is an annual month-long open studio event that brings artists from all over Berkeley who sign up, puts them on a map, and gets them all to work together for the mutual benefit of getting you all to spend your money on something interesting for the holidays.

As you know, I just moved to Berkeley a few months ago and have since discovered that hundreds of artists live in my area, which is full of studios, live/work lofts, and warehousy structures that house things like foundries, fx studios, and puppetry workshops.

Getcherself a map ritechair: http://www.berkeleyartisans.com/map_page.html
I'm #25, Holmes.

So come on out and do a tour of our humble Berkeley neighborhood. Think of it as a treasure hunt. It will be a lovely time.