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Jamie S. Rich

LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE, Side B collection on sale 9/24/08!

About Me


I'm a writer living in Portland, OR, with one cat and too much junk. I have several books published through Oni Press, Cut My Hair, I Was Someone Dead, and The Everlasting. My comic book series Love the Way You Love comes out every three months, and it's drawn by Marc Ellerby, while my first full-length original graphic novel, 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, was being drawn by Joëlle Jones and was published last October.
Most recently, in 2007, I published my fourth novel, Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?. Joëlle took time out of her busy schedule to do the cover. She's also been working on our next comic book project, the hardboiled You Have Killed Me .
You can read more about me at http://www.confessions123.com/ .
How long has it been since your last Confession?

My Interests

junkies, trash, and a chemical kiss

I'd like to meet:

my maker.

Music:

Suede/The Tears/Brett Andrerson/McAlmont & Butler, The Who, Trash Can Sinatras, Morrissey/The Smiths, The Jam/Style Council/Paul Weller, Faye Wong, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Christina Aguilera, De La Soul, Low, Garbage, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, Gene, The Coral, Love, Kenickie, The Roots, Timbaland, Neptunes, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lara Michell, Saint Etienne, Pulp/Jarvis Cocker...need I keep going?

Movies:

Audrey Hepburn, Wong Kar-Wai, film noir, Orson Welles, the Criterion Collection, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Cary Grant, Scorsese, Godard, Untamed Heart, Zhang Yimou, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sofia Coppola, Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Rita Hayworth, Terence Malick, Robert Wise, The Cranes are Flying

Television:

The Simpsons, Survivor, the Law & Order franchise, Arrested Development, Popular, HBO (Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Sex & the City, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage), ER, Weeds, 30 Rock, The Office from both sides of the pond

Books:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nancy Mitford, Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth, Albert Camus, J.D. Salinger, Nick Hornby, Martin Amis, e.e. cummings, Charles Baudelaire, Irvine Welsh, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Franz Kafka, Tom Stoppard, Truman Capote, Harlan Ellison, Andi Watson, Los Bros Hernadndez, Paul Pope, Chynna Clugston, Posy Simmonds, Osamu Tezuka, Rumiko Takahashi, CLAMP Studios, Bill Watterson, A.A. Milne, Yoko Ogawa, Milan Kundera, Kawabata's Snow Country

Heroes:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Audrey Hepburn, Wong Kar-Wai, Matt Wagner, Mike Allred, Martin Scorsese, Terence Malick, Paulie Walnuts, Yazi ginger vodka, Joëlle Jones

My Blog

I CAN SMELL THE SMELL OF BRAND NEW VINYL IN MY HANDS

At long last, the Image Comics solicitations for January 2009 are out, and I can finally tell you what book all of those stories I've been teasing about at Confessions of a Pop Fan will be featured in...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:11:00 PST

Rare copy of CUT MY HAIR auctioned for Obama!

Here is your chance to contribute to the historic Presidential race of Barack Obama and pick yourself up a rarity from my career at the same time.I have donated this item to the Comics Industry for Ob...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:03:00 PST

LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE SIDE B/RED ROCKET 7 on sale 9/24!

At long last, the second collection of the series is on sale this week:Love the Way You Love, Side B: Songs of DevotionThe book collects the final three issues of the series in their entirety, along w...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:54:00 PST

LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE vol. 6 in the can

Love the Way You Love vol. 6 is completely drawn and turned in to Oni! Whooosh!I have nothing pithy to say. Read Mr. Ellerby's note here instead.We're well on target for our June release date. At last...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:31:00 PST

LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE 6 in June

An update on the publishing schedule of Love the Way You Love volume 6. It appears we overstayed our extensions at Diamond, and Oni Press had no choice but to cancel the old solicitation and put it on...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:33:00 PST

So, you dont read my real blog, eh? Missed the big news, then?

I know you’re gonna dig this....
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:09:00 PST

Criterion Confessions

Hey, everyone.Because I don't have enough to do in my life, I have started a new blog devoted entirely to my journey through the Criterion Collection of DVDs. Please stop by and take a look at Criteri...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:57:00 PST

Update: LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE vol. 6 delayed

I wanted to give a quick update in regards to the sixth issue of Love the Way You Love, which I think was actually solicited for this month, despite Oni's release date on their website of 11/28. If yo...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:39:00 PST

HAVE YOU SEEN THE HORIZON LATELY? and Largehearted Boy

Largehearted Boy, one of the most informative and easy to digest daily music/pop culture blogs out there, has given me a return engagement for its Book Notes column. This is where authors make soundtr...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:51:00 PST

LOVE THE WAY YOU LOVE vol. 5 - on sale 8/15/07!

Love the Way You Love vol. 5 is on sale this week. Marc and I definitely have hit our stride at this point, and it's another issue we're really excited about. So, definitely look for it in comics shop...
Posted by Jamie S. Rich on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:12:00 PST