juliana

BE A COMIC BOOK MODEL ... OR JUST LOOK LIKE ONE
Or, "I know it's not a real journal update, but it's what I've been up to all the same ..."

****** Edited to say: WE'RE LOOKING FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN of all types! *******

... You know you want to.

Private message me or reply to: suicidejuliana@yahoo.com if you want to be considered as a comic book model for Michelle Tea and Laurenn McCubbin's new book, Carrier.

If you haven't heard of Rent Girl already, you probably will soon. It's been optioned for TV by the same Showtime execs who produced Queer as Folk.

Check out Laurenn's art and tell me you don't want to be immortalized by her pen.


Use it or lose it,
--juliana


Deets from Michelle, below:

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Comic book model casting call
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> Subject: be a comic book model or just look like one.
>
> hello! this is michelle tea. me and laurenn mccubbin, who i
> collaborated with on Rent Girl, are doing another book together. it is
> a fully illustrated graphic novel about a teenage girl who kills her
> dad, escapes from a criminal clinic, hops a train to the west coast,
> becomes part pigeon, meets a gang of squatting artist kids, some of
> whom have mutations from the legacy of medical testing and pollution
> left by a genetic company on in the town they live in _ Santa
> Apollonia, a distopic beach town run by an evil nonprofit housing
> corporation. who the kids overthrow. duh! are you still with me? it's
> a comic book!
>
> anyway, we need models. people to stand in as various characters _
> doctors, freakshow cabaret performers, squatter kids, vapid heiresses,
> normal people, cops, drug addicts, news casters, a baby etc. Laurenn
> works from photographs, so she'd be taking your picture and then
> drawing you into the book. the book, which is called Carrier, will be
> published by MacAdam/Cage publishers in 2008. Laurenn will start work
> on it in November and work throughout January. minor characters and
> 'extras' would only have to help out for one day; larger characters
> we'd need for up to 7. Laurenn will be shooting nights and weekends.
> in san francisco and the east bay.
>
> we have nothing to offer you except for the untold thrills of being
> immortalized in the pages of an awesome comic book. which i think will
> be pretty fun. would you please help bring our story to life? if
> you're into it, [EMAIL JULIANA] ideally with a little
> picture of yourself attached. okay, awesome. thanks!
>
> love, michelle tea