Rediscover Eric Shanower's epic comics adaptation of the story of the Trojan war on the iPad, now in FULL COLOR and with full hyperlinked reader's guide. Issue 1 is available NOW in the iPad app store for just 99 cents!
Martin Rowson’s THE WASTE LAND “SEEN”
Throwaway Horse LLC is proud to present Martin Rowson's The Waste Land "Seen," a re-launching of Rowson's acclaimed The Waste Land comic first published in 1999, reformatted for the iPad and presented on the Behind the Seen Reader. Readers can now examined Rowson's work in relation to Eliot's poetry, the development of modernist literature, the filmography of film noir, and the sweep of art history itself. >>
ULYSSES “SEEN” on WHYY’s Friday Arts Show!
ULYSSES "SEEN" will be the lead feature in the November edition of WHYY's "Friday Arts" show, airing Nov. 5. Those outside the Philadelphia area can catch it on the web shortly thereafter. We will also be in the WHYY studios to show our iPad app & answer questions after the show airs.
Press
ULYSSES “SEEN” has been in the press quite a bit – and not in a small way. Click here for a sampling of the articles in which it has appeared. >>
“Behind the Seen” Reader
Read about Throwaway Horse LLC's paatent-pending "Behind The Seen" Reader here.
ERIC SHANOWER’S ACCLAIMED “AGE OF BRONZE” GRAPHIC NOVEL RELEASED AS INTERACTIVE IPAD APP
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 13, 2011 Age of Bronze, Eric Shanower’s renowned, on-going graphic novel series depicting the people, places, and events of the Trojan War, will be released as an iPad app on October 14, 2011. The Age of Bronze “Seen” app brings an incredibly engaging and interactive enhanced book experience to the iPad.
Published in black and white by Image Comics since 1998, the Age of Bronze “Seen” app brings Shanower’s deeply researched story and art to full-color life. Colorist John Dallaire worked closely with Shanower to create a beautiful and historically appropriate color scheme for the series. The app also features a page-by-page, interactive reader’s guide written by Yale classics scholar Thomas Beasley.
Driven by the (patent-pending) Behind the Seen engine created by publisher Throwaway Horse LLC, the app allows seamless navigation between the pages of the graphic novel and the comprehensive reader’s guide, as well as character profiles, maps, and links to external, web-based sources – without the need to exit the app. Age of Bronze “Seen” also includes a built-in discussion board, where users can post their thoughts and interact with the creators and each other.
The app is being released under the name Age of Bronze “Seen”, and includes the first issue of the graphic novel series. Subsequent issues will be released monthly. Each issue will feature approximately 20 pages of comic content, following the format of the original print publication. The first several issues of the app are being offered at the introductory price 99 cents. Throwaway Horse LLC is a Philadelphia based company and the creators of the well-known Ulysses “Seen” and Rowson’s Waste Land “Seen” apps. For more information, contact Marketing Director, Libbi Rich at lrich@throwawayhorse.com.
We hope that you share our love of modernist literature at large. We also hope you share our sense of humor, our desire to hack through the thornier patches of this stuff, and our wish that more people read it so that we could talk more about it and demonstrate how bloody clever we are.
Soooo, if you haven’t heard, we launched a Throwaway Horse take on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, called Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land Seen. We took acclaimed political cartoonist Martin Rowson’s take on The Waste Land, added our Reader’s Guide to it, and launched it as another iPad app. A set of five sample pages can be found here. We’ve been selling the app for $9.99, but for the month of April only we are reducing the price to $7.99. Please consider purchasing this app and recommending to your friends. It would make our April slightly less cruel.
It takes a lot of detective work to decipher modernist literature. Trying to figure how grail legends, the Upanishads, and vegetation myths all link up has left scholars chasing their tails for nearly a century, and has left us ordinary palookas in the dust. Lucky for us we have private eye Chris Marlowe, cartoonist Martin Rowson, and scholar Michael Barsanti to help shake out some of the clues and make some hasty repairs to a heap of otherwise broken images.
Throwaway Horse LLC is proud to present Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land “Seen,”a re-launching of Rowson’s acclaimed The Waste Land comic first published in 1999. The comic itself tells a story of betrayal, murder and intrigue in the best film noir tradition, haunted by various allusions conjured by T.S. Eliot’s most notoriously difficult poem. The comic has been reformatted for the iPad, presented on Throwaway Horse’s Behind the Seen Reader so that it can be examined in relation to Eliot’s poetry, the development of modernist literature, the filmography of film noir, and the sweep of art history itself.
Rowson’s The Waste Land “Seen” is the second offering from Throwaway Horse, creators of the Ulysses “Seen” website and iPad app. As with Ulysses “Seen”, Throwaway Horse hopes that this project will help preserve interest in this challenging but essential work of art using the best functionality of tablet readers. The app was coded by Bunsen Tech LLC, and is available now in the Apple App Store at the introductory rate of $9.99.
In October of 2010 we launched a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com. We’re pleased to say that the response was overwhelming. We finished at 142% of our goal. We are so honored and grateful to all of our contributors, and we can’t wait to get more of the work out there this year!
ULYSSES “SEEN” will be the lead feature in the November edition of WHYY’s “Friday Arts” show, airing Nov. 5. Those outside the Philadelphia area can catch it on the web shortly thereafter. We will also be in the WHYY studios to show our iPad app & answer questions after the show airs.
On the eve of New York Comic Con, experience Ulysses “Seen”, Robert Berry’s graphic novel adaptation of the 1922 edition of James Joyce’s epic masterpiece, through commentary by Robert Berry and Josh Levitas, in conversation with Mike Barsanti, editor, and moderated by Karen Green, curator of the Columbia University Library collection of graphic novels. Learn how you, too, can be part of the creative process, with a special preview of pages from the newest chapter, and a forum for readers to suggest settings, props and character types for the remaining chapters of the comic.
We hope that you share our love of modernist literature at large. We also hope you share our sense of humor, our desire to hack through the thornier patches of this stuff, and our wish that more people read it so that we could talk more about it and demonstrate how bloody clever we are.
