An intrepid group of creatives including author and poet Igor Goldkind, artist Dave McKean, designer Jesse Horsting (whose credits include the distinctive look of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns series for DC Comics), and composer Gilad Atzmon, have launched a new arts collaboration, 2025: FACING the WAVES.
Scheduled for release next month (April), 2025: FACING the WAVES combines poetry by Igor, jazz, art, and fables to offer a guide for navigating the turbulent political landscape of today.
Igor’s FACING the WAVES book, a “new collection of odd poetry”, as he describes it, offers about a hundred pages of new work, including three short stories, with a cover illustration by renowned Scandinavian surrealist painter Katarina Andersson.
In times of confusion, what people truly crave is art to help them articulate and make sense of the current chaos
The project includes a deluxe limited edition hardcover, a 14-track album featuring original music and spoken word composed by Gilad Atzmon, the magnificent jazz composer, available in March for download, CD and Vinyl entitled The Broken Star, a musical and poetic indictment of the current state of Israel. The album cover is designed by the designer, illustrator, comics artist Dave McKean (Arkham Asylum, Black Dog, Cages).
Also included is a signed limited art print of the cover illustration of the poetry book, by Katarina.
Available in different editions, the project launch will be marked with an international signing and performance tour of Spoken Word and Live Music.
Igor Goldkind is an author, poet, and independent scholar. At the age of 14, Igor served as a volunteer Science Fiction Coordinator for the San Diego Comic-Con, where he met Ray Bradbury and asked him for advice about becoming a writer. Through Comic-Con, Igor also befriended Theodore Sturgeon and Harlan Ellison, two of his major influences.
He worked in the British comic publishing industry in the early 1990s. In 2016, his award-winning multimedia novel published by Chameleon Publishing IS SHE AVAILABLE?, broke ground in combining poetry, comics, jazz, and animation setting a new bar in electronic publishing. He continued to blend poetry with art in Take a Deep Breath, Living With Uncertainty, a unique collection of fully illustrated poetry, fables, and philosophies, a book aimed at the pandemic of crisis anxiety so many of us are living through.
• Email info@themissionarts.com to be added to our pre-order list. More information on the project on Igor Goldkind’s web site here
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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