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When one looks in the box, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the cat.

Reactor

Acclaimed writer Tim Hall and Eisner-nominated and Emmy-winning cartoonist Dean Haspiel bring us a stark vision of a future in which one of humanity’s oldest professions is no longer essential. What might bring about such a world, and what might happen to the practitioners of this ancient art?

What kind of world no longer needs someone to tend to their dead?

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Dean Haspiel

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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.

Photo by Seth Kushner

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Tim Hall

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Tim Hall's writing has appeared in American Heritage, NY Post, NY Observer, ForbesTraveler.com, and many other print and web publications. He is the author of five books, most recently the story collection One Damn Thing After Another (OW Press, 2010).

He has collaborated with some of the finest comic artists and illustrators working today, including Josh Neufeld (New Orleans: AD), Nick Bertozzi (Lewis & Clark), Dean Haspiel (Bored To Death), Rami Efal, Jennifer Hayden, Jen Ferguson, and many others. His comics have appeared at Smith Magazine, Tor.com, and as part of the webcomix collective, Act-i-vate.com.

A passionate advocate for DIY culture in general and self-publishing in particular, Tim is the founder of the online magazine and publishing house, Undie Press, as well as a co-founding member of the Outsider Writers Collective. His work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio, translated into Bengali, selected for several international anthologies of new writing, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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