The Wang: Who's Your Daddy? in PREVIEWS.

[Squid Works]

I got some interesting news upon arriving home from SPX... The Wang: Who's Your Daddy? (http://www.squidworks.com/Stan/Wang/wyd) is in this month's Previews!
I wish I had known ahead of time so I could publicize it, but it shouldn't be too late to have your retailer pre-order the book:

VOL XVI, #10 October 2006, page 318 (Ships in December)

Order number OCT06 3639 (page 102 on retailer order form).

Go get some!

http://www.squidworks.com/Stan/Wang/wyd/cover.jpg

"I can't recommend it enough." ~Sheena McNeil, Sequential Tart 10/01/06
More reviews at www.squidworks.com/Stan/Wang/wyd

[DWEarhart]

I ordered this one. I read the synopsis, and it just felt like something I had not read in a long time, some style that I've ignored recently.

Congrats, and good luck.

[Squid Works]

Thanks for your support, David. :)

[Squid Works]

Here's a rave review from Pop-Culture Spectrum:

Excerpt: "Stan Yan understands comedy, and comedy timing more than most people I have read. He really knows how to build a story that leads to a simple, but brilliant punch line and keep you laughing and wondering along the way. He seems to understand how to make the highly dramatic completely hilarious as well. That includes car crashes, break-ups and not knowing whom your father is or if he’s even alive."

"Who’s Your Daddy? feels like season three or four of a TV show that’s so good with brilliant writers, that you can drop right in and quickly know who’s who, what’s what and what you’ve missed that’s important to the current situation. It will take you but a moment to want to join Eugene Wang down his wacky, weird world of stockbrokerage, old college friends, ex-girlfriends who used to have sex with his mother, and a brush with life and death. That feeling btw of season three is essentially because The Wang is the continuing story of Stan’s lead creation Eugene Wang."

Here's a link: http://www.popculturespectrum.com/thewang.html

[DWEarhart]

Good: Funny, grown up, The dildo promise.

Bad: Not enough George

Stan Yan does a fine job with this book, finding all the funny in situations that can be only some of man's most frightening. Eugene's ex-girlfriend dumped him for his mother, and now he is forced to play messanger between the two of them as their relationship isn't exactly the greatest in history.

He's also finding his niche as a stockbroker, and in just being a friend. Also, this book shows that it's not so easy just being a son, or someone's child in this case, and even the simplest things in life are not so simple on purpose.

[Squid Works]

David,

I'm glad you liked it!

I hope to relaunch the Wang as a weekly or periodic strip and feature George more prominently as a regular character... the Cynical Motivational Speaker.

:cool:

[DWEarhart]

Cool.

I'm most likely going to end up getting The Big One.

Has your art style evolved much?

[Squid Works]

Cool.

I'm most likely going to end up getting The Big One.

Has your art style evolved much?

I think it has. The cartoony stylism that you see in "Who's Your Daddy?" is still there, but it's less refined. You can see some sample pages for each story by clicking on the sample pages at www.squidworks.com/Stan/Wang. You can see the further evolution of my art by looking at my work at www.subculturecomic.com/previews.htm and www.urbandeities.com