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Update #12: my contact info (whoops)
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Posted on January 19, 2011
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Update #11: HI EVERYONE! PLEASE READ!
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Update #10: EXPEDITION BLOG
Hi, everyone. I've begun posting journal entries and photographs from the recent expedition; the late July trip through the Inside Passage to Juneau photos and entries are up now. Please follow the link to my blog, which will be updated every couple of days.
http://antizerogravity.blogspot.com/
Drawings, more photographs, stories and journal entries are forthcoming, so keep an eye out! Meanwhile, I'll need to collect addresses from everyone soon, as reward time approaches. Please forward your contact info to me at my email tedwardbak@gmail.com
Hope all of you are well, thanks again!
teb
Update #9: EXPEDITION: SUCCESS!
Hi everyone!
This is T Edward Bak, confirming that the WILD MAN drawing expedition has come to a successful closure. I departed from Bellingham, Washington for Juneau aboard the M/V Columbia on July 23. After spending a week exploring Juneau, and conducting research with the invaluable staff and resources of the Alaska State Museum and Alaska State Historical Archives, a harrowing 3-hour double-prop PenAir flight from Anchorage delivered me across the Alaskan peninsula and the eastern Aleutian islands/borough to the island of Unalaska. I spent a week exploring, photographing and documenting the island habitat and wildlife, and learning about Unangan culture through a small family of native fishermen living/working in Akutan, and through the resources of the Museum of the Aleutians in Dutch Harbor/Unalaska. I boarded the M/V Tustumena a few days later, sailing east across the island chain, recording everything possible along the 3-day journey, which proceeded in the opposite direction of the western route taken by the St. Peter in the summer of 1741.
In a few days, I will be posting journal entries, drawings and photographs from the expedition to my antizerogravity blog, where you can read all about the excursion and adventure. Later this year, I'll be publishing a small journal about the WILD MAN expedition, too.
Anyhow, just a quick note to let you all know how everything went:
Fantastically. Thanks to you all.
Update #8: WE DID IT
With days to go, even!
I don't even know how to begin to express my gratitude. This is one of the greatest things I could have possibly imagined doing in my lifetime. I am humbled, privileged and honored to be engaged in this endeavor with all of you in mind.
Meanwhile, I just completed the design for the last "Beasts of the Sea" print - the Northern fur seal - and will cut the linoleum block (as well as the Pallas cormorant design) and print this week. It's also time to buy supplies and make solid travel arrangements.
Unalaska, I'm on my way.
I couldn't have done it without all of you. Thank you.
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You'll know that your contribution made "WILD MAN" a reality, your name will go into a drawing for a signed copy of any volume of MOME featuring one of the "WILD MAN" serials, and a signed copy of "Beasts of the Sea", a limited edition supplementary series of 4 letterpress prints featuring the marine mammals Steller observed while he was stranded on Bering Island.
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One pair of signed letterpress prints featuring two animals which became extinct after Steller encountered them in the North Pacific during the winter of 1741-1742: the Steller sea cow (from the "Beasts of the Sea" series) and the (generally) flightless Pallas cormorant. NOTE: The Pallas cormorant print is only available through the $50 pledge and does not appear in the "Beasts of the Sea" supplement!
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One signed copy of "Beasts of the Sea", a limited edition accordion fold-out "WILD MAN" supplement, featuring all 4 marine mammal prints and information about the aforementioned animals, plus a special acknowledgment on my antizerogravity blog.
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One signed 5x8" original drawing from the graphic novel, "WILD MAN - The Strange Journey and Fantastic Account of the Naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller - From Bavaria to Bolshaya Zemlya (and Beyond)" by T Edward Bak.
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One signed original watercolor drawing of any North Pacific marine animal. You tell me!
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One signed Moleskine book filled with 40 original ink wash drawings from the first published chapter of "WILD MAN".
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I am a cartoonist and educator at work on a graphic novel biography about the 18th century naturalist, Georg Wilhelm Steller, a colleague and contemporary of Carl Linnaeus. In 2008, I spent six months working aboard a ship which traveled throughout SE Alaska's Inside Passage, and began researching the story of Steller and the Second Kamchatka Expedition, close to an area where several of the expedition's men were lost in 1741, near present-day Sitka.
I've also lived, studied and worked in Colorado, Georgia, Vermont, Texas, and Oregon. In addition to Fantagraphics Books' quarterly "Mome" collection, my work has appeared in Houghton-Mifflin's "Best American Comics" series and was featured in the "Drawn and Quarterly Showcase". In 2007, I was awarded with the Fellowship at the Center for Cartoon Studies. I am an instructor with the Pacific Northwest College of Art and one of several talented resident artists associated with the Independent Publishing Resource Center. I was recently awarded an artist's residency in Talkeetna, Alaska, where I will spend part of the summer writing and creating drawings for my Steller biography, "WILD MAN"..
These day, I usually call Portland, Oregon home.
