This one's for the night owls of the world➱ Ziggy’s Cigar Graphic novel, Literary Fiction by Tony and Nicole Nesca Book Tour with Guest Post and giveaway
This one's for the night owls of the world.
Ziggy’s Cigar
by Tony and Nicole Nesca
Genre: Graphic novel, Literary Fiction
One night in the life of a security guard in an inner-city highrise.
Full of after-midnight eccentrics and fringe-dwelling street people, this one's for the night owls of the world.
Searching for Rebellion: Two Indie Authors Form Edgy Publishing Company
Tony Nesca and Nicole I. Nesca have one question – where have all the fearless artists gone? Unable to find a mainstream publishing outfit that suited their taste for grittier writing, the Nescas formed their own – Screamin’ Skull Press.
For the Beat Generation, controversy was the norm, not the exception. Creators like Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Lucien Carr courted debate and made careers out of pushing the proverbial envelope with their poems, books, music and other creative expressions. Living on the fringes of society was considered to be more exciting and fulfilling than conforming to the mainstream.
Authors and married couple Tony and Nicole Nesca feel connected to that Generation through their own work, and their innate understanding of what it means to be artists whose work cannot be deemed ‘conventional’ by anyone’s standards.
Currently writing, editing and publishing their works through their self-publishing venture, Screamin’ Skull Press, Tony Nesca and Nicole Nesca have both cultivated individual styles but have the same mission.
“To be frank, we see too much pushed out into the world today that is bland and formulaic,” says Tony Nesca, whose unique, humorous and lyrical sixth novel, ‘Hobo’ is out now. “Every other book is a rip-off of another rip-off. The bookstores are packed with these endless vampire stories and dystopian fairy tales. Where is our Anais Nin? Our Hunter S. Thompson?” Our Virginia Woolf?
Screamin’ Skull Press exclusively publishes the worrk of the Nescas - raw, electric and with a free flowing mix of prose and poetry, their books are explorations of freedom, art, death, love, literary experimentation and living how one chooses.
“We knew that mainstream publishers wouldn’t have the courage to publish the kind of work that we want to create,” says Nicole Nesca. “It’s interesting – sometimes we wonder, could Henry Miller or Hemingway find success in today’s market?
It’s as if bravery is a dirty word in literature. Fearlessness, to me, is everything to a writer. Although we have our own styles, I think that’s one thing that Tony and I saw in each other when we met – that drive to find truth and peel back the layers in our own work.”
“I think we first fell in love with each other’s writing,” says Tony. “Which was a fitting beginning to our story.”
Tony Nesca and Nicole I. Nesca have published 19 distinct works through their Indie Press, and their journey toward a more rebellious future for literature continues.
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Ziggy’s Cigar was our first collaboration, written in 2013 as a film script, which we tried to sell to no avail. Then we tried to get funding to make it ourselves, and failure raised its ugly head again. So we threw the script into a desk drawer and forgot about it. When our digital publisher informed us that they were branching out into comics, an idea came forth. We converted the film script into a comic book script changing very little. The words 'Scene 1' "were changed to 'Page 1'', and then we cut the scenes into panels describing them in great detail. We submitted it, our publisher accepted, and artists were put to work.
ReplyDeleteEssentially, what you have with Ziggy’s Cigar is a film in comic book form. The very script we wrote 11 years ago fully visualized. It moves like a film, feels like a film, and looks like a film. We even break the 4th wall in certain scenes, as we had planned for the movie.
It was a blast making it, hope you have a blast reading it, your favorite drink beside you, whatever turns you on close at hand, rain beating that beat on the sidewalk, nuthin' but cool easy thoughts...
T.N.