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Eventually Graphic NYC spawned a print book, Leaping Tall Buildings, released through Powerhouse Books in Brooklyn, where Kushner was a native The book was steeped in high production qualities and careful design, and also captured several members of the comics community who were no longer with us by the time the book was published, a[...]

This voluminous online, open access project later crystallized into a printed volume that I will probably be campaigning for as a milestone of comics journalism for the rest of my life: Leaping Tall Buildings This book collects over 100 portraits of comics creators of all stripes together with essays about their life and work, and[...]

Seth Kushner's award-winning photography in comics, including his massive tribute to comics creators with Chris Irving, Leaping Tall Buildings, is well known in the industry, but Seth also branched out massively into using the photocomix format to tell stories of true and fictional lives through his CulturePOP photo essays and also through Costumed Characters. Written in[...]

So, please spread the word and be mindful of others, too, in the comics community who might need your help. Seth's work has included the ground-breaking book Leaping Tall Buildings, and beyond, taking some of the most striking photo-portraits of comics creators created to date, like these: [Robert Kirkman] [Joe Hill] [Frank Miller] [Neil Gaiman] He also successfully funded a Kickstarter[...]

Published books include, The Brooklynites, Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origins of American Comics and upcoming New York Comics Seth is co-founder of TRIP CITY, home to his CulturePOP photocomix and Schmuck comics In 2013, Seth co-founded HANG DAI Editions an independent publishing imprint. As we've reported and discussed here on Bleeding Cool extensively, the[...]

Since then, there has been a massive amount of support among comics creators, many of whom had already benefited from Seth's outstanding photo portraiture as seen in the photo-profile book Leaping Tall Buildings with Christopher Irving or who had been part of Seth's wide-ranging Kickstarter Schmuck featuring tales of the modern quest for love in[...]

This resulted first in an online project: GraphicNYC, and then in a print volume: Leaping Tall Buildings in 2012 Seth's photo-portraits are instantly recognizable to many in the industry and he has long been the go-to guy for official photos of creators due to his extremely creative use of light and shadow as well as[...]

I first made the acquaintance of cartoonist and writer Dean Haspiel at a Comics panel talk at Columbia University Library where he was joining others to attest to the influence of New York on comics, and I met photographer and writer Seth Kushner shortly after that at a launch for his photo-essay book with Chris[...]