Waste L.A. : Voices of Descent 2

P.O. BOX 90701 : SANTA BARBARA, CA 93190-0701 : WASTELA@WEST.NET

Over on the right is an article printed in the Santa Barbara Independent the week Issue 1's release, and following are a few of the responses we received previous to that. The first batch are from comic shop owners -- much thanks for their support. If one is in your area, be sure to stop by and check it out.

Whoa, what a cinematic rush you guys have!
"Photo" comics usually don't work well, but
Waste L.A. blows that stereotype out of the
freakin' water! I now wish I read it ASAP when
I got it...I plan to show customers that they
ought to try [it] out. Thanks & good luck!
Derek Price, The Phoenix, Natchitoches LA

For a quick read, I'm already spent and wasted.
Similar to the new TV show "Nowhere Man,"
Waste L.A. is an enigmatic, edgy yet rhythmic
"Descent" into..? I can't wait to experience what
happens next. Anything else we can do to help
inform the wasted masses, let us know.
Claude the Wonderdog & Steve
Claude's Comics, Hatboro PA

Thanks for the advance copy! It resides on my
front counter for all my customers to see!
Art Parr, All-American Comics, New Orleans LA

More kind words came from:
Metro Comics, Santa Barbara CA Comics on Parade, Santa Barbara CA Planet Comics, Norman OK Lady Jayne's, Tacoma WA Third Planet, Torrance CA World's Greatest, Douglasville GA Nostalgia Zone, Minneapolis MN Oak Leaf Comics, Cedar Falls IO New Dimension, Ellwood City PA Bedrock City, Houston TX Hi De Ho, Santa Monica CA Big Guy's, Mountain View CA Zanadu, Seattle WA Comics Dungeon, Seattle WA

We also got some feedback from the web page.
Both of these are excerpts from reviews posted
to the rec.arts.comics newsgroups.

I found the visuals for your first issue quite impressive. You've got a good handle on special effects. You know how to do them, and at least as important, you apparently know how *not* to *overdo* them. I think you've also managed to get around the problem I have with most fumetti -- too much (useless) information. YouÕve kept the backgrounds clean, the framing simple but interesting, and have done a good job of suggesting motion with still pictures. (That's hard to do.) Jim Ottaviani, hellpop@engin.umich.edu I know, it's been done before -- I think they call it fumetti. I tend not to care for thisÉ but I gotta say, it's pretty well done here. The direction behind the pictures is spot on, and the fact that the pages aren't crowded in panels works to its benefit also. And this is all done in black and white, with heavy black borders surrounding the panels, which helps set the grim mood...there are about three pages where the stranger literally has Matt by the short 'n' curlies that make me wince (and I'm not even a guy!) so much more because they're real photographs. Not a *pleasant* book by any means, WASTE L.A. works quite well for what it is. Elayne Wechsler-Chaput, firehead@panix.com

Special thanks to Mom, Dad, and Issue 2's models: Michelle Johnson, Jason Schiffman, Morgan Jones, Andrew F. Hinnebusch, Jacky Sallow, Mott Smith, and the lovely Starshine Rowell.

Bill O'Neil was born with a guitar in one hand and a cigarette in the other. He letters books with guys in funny tights for Wildstorm to make his motorcycle payments and plays in the band Ferrous Weal for the sheer volume of it.

JG letters and designs virtually for Comicraft and is nearly always in front of a computer. What a dork. His grandmother beat him to the top of the bestseller list, (the Beardstown Ladies' Investment Club), and their second book comes out the same month as John's first.

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