I love your work. Thank you for doing this!

Thanks. Deborah! Much appreciated. Gertie will be a lot of fun, indeed. We've got some time before we get to her, but we're looking forward to that and so many other scenes in the novel.

Right now we're looking at releasing 2 episodes per year, and your support will help us to keep to that. We're doing every scene in the novel, so those episodes and the reader's guide will be quite full.

We're glad to have you aboard. If you haven't already, you can register at ulyssesseen.com to receive an email when new pages go up. Thanks again!

-Josh

May you get all the funds you need to shepherd this project through!
My experience reading the Telemachus chapter left me wanting more... many chapters more.

I am looking forward to seeing how you visually integrate Gertie into the narrative. She is such a catalyst for Bloom's thoughts and desires.

What is your time-line for completing the graphic novelization?

Francine,
Thank you for your support.
I'd not heard of Professor Kinahan prior to your comment and pledge, so I did a little digging. No doubt Mike Barsanti, our resident Joycean, has crossed his path before on this road, but my own background with the book is more self-driven. For those of you interested in learning more about Professor Kinahan this opening link to a long carreer will lead you to more;
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4154269.html
I'm sorry to learn of this man only after his death. There's work here in his CV that I will want to read more of to really appreciate, but it would've been better to hear some of it in person, in that special light of a classroom or barroom fired by the unique mind of a person truly in love with the material of poetry.
When beginning this project and this fundraising drive i don't think any of us expected to be taking donations based, as yours was, on the care for and loss of a fellow Joycean. As the cartoonist on the project all I can do is thank you for sharing this with us and promise that I'll spend time looking over Professor Kinahan's work to better inform my own.
And that I'll do what i can to point out the tremendous effect a great teacher can have upon us all.

Thank you so much for your support and for sharing this with us,
-Rob

In memoriam Francis X. Kinahan, Professor U of Chicago

Wow! Just a little over one week into the fundraising drive and we're half way to our goal! I haven't even started pestering people yet!

David, thanks so much, man. We're both a long way from Detroit these days, but it feels great to have the support of old friends on something so new.
-Rob

Thank you so much for your compliments, David and Donald. When taking on a project like this, every bit of encouragement helps. We will certainly do our best to keep up the momentum. You can have a direct effect on that by sharing this link with anyone you know who may be interested. We can't thank you enough for your support!

Good luck you guys! love your stuff!

This is so cool.

Marianeli,

Thanks so much for the support! The NPR story (there were two, in fact!) was a shock for all of us. We did our thing, were than asked to change it, and reached out to friends in the media who thought we shouldn't. It was a tough time for us, Apple, and everyone else directly involved.

In the long run, Apple did reassess their policy regarding nudity through discussions of our app. That was pretty damn surprising and, to me, still pretty shocking.

But, yes, there's only one chapter up on the site at this time. We're looking to make a whole new approach for using comics as an interface for learning and teaching great works of literature on new devices like the iPad. Getting that first chapter up was big "proof of concept".

But more chapters are coming. Promise. This may've been the test case for what we can do as a company linking literature, comics and the web-based classroom, but Joyce's ULYSSES is more than an example. It's the thing closest to my heart in "intelligent comics", work that makes people stretch their own ideas of what this art form can do.

I've got a lot of plans for future chapters and how to make them exciting and unique.

Kickstarter can help make that happen with the complete freedom that we've enjoyed already.
-Rob

I should also point out here that in my earlier response to Ari it seems I promised daily "scotches" for everyone.

This will not happen. It's spell-check getting the better of me (that faceless editor of our modern-way of talking).

It's daily sketches. They can be found here on my Facebook page;
http://www.facebook.com/album.php…

-Rob

Thanks, Anthony, and welcome to the enormous yawning pit that comes from loving a novel that most of your friends may find unapproachable.

It needn't be so. Joyce's masterwork is filled with enormous depth, he really was creating a kind of novel that readers would fell encouraged to read over and over again But somehow that got turned, in the popular opinion, into a modern work so mystifying that just enjoying it becomes a litmus test for the literati.

James Joyce was a very smart man who highly approved of smart thinking but, personally, I don't think he meant his novel to be a test-case for smartness.

And it's really funny. Really, really funny. Like the Bugs Bunny cartoons we saw as children, it's the kind of funny that makes you want to learn more about where all the jokes come from.

We're happy to be doing this and, frankly, quite surprised by all this early excitement on kickstarter. Through this venue we're reaching a new group of people who have their own reasons for seeing the project continue, people who may've not heard of it before. That's pretty damn exciting.

Can we "give this daunting book an easier entry point"? God, I hope so. But we're also giving them a chance to dig deeper into all those enigmas one drawing at a time.
-R

I first heard about Ulysses Seen in NPR (about the censorship going on in the app for Itunes). I decided to take a look at the website and loved it! With the help of the website was able to read one chapter of the book! This is a huge accomplishment, given that I've tried to start twice before and could not get passed the first page. Can't wait for the other chapters! You guys are doing a great job! Keep it up!