Lara Antal Archives

MoCCA Fest is going to be a very dangerous place this weekend because all of the devious and aberrant minds behind Tales of the Night Watchman are going to be there, and that's a highly unusual thing. In all seriousness, something great about So What? Press' series Tales of the Night Watchman is how collaborative it[...]

Newcomer indie publishers So What? Press run by Dave Kelly and Lara Antal have announced the arrival of their new Fall lineup of books, two of which are available now, and one for December pre-order You can order their fine books here. So What? Press have kindly supplied us with previews of these new books for[...]

You can meet him, but here's a preview: Thursday, April 17th Desert Island at 540 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn and So What? Press are hosting the Staycation Book Tour Release Party from 7-10PM with Dave Kelly, Lara Antal, Molly Ostertag, and Jess Ruliffson They say: Come celebrate the release of So What? Press' spring line of books at[...]

It gives writer Dave Kelly and artist Lara Antal a chance to show off their feel for pacing and up close human interaction to remind us that the Night Watchman stories are really about the human perspective on strangeness, whether daily life or things far beyond normal human ken. The Night Watchman stories return to their[...]

Written by Dave Kelly and illustrated by Lara Antal, previous Tales of the Night Watchman books have appeared at various indie shows including Small Press Expo, and expanded into Tales of the Night Watchman Presents collaborating with other artists like Molly Ostertag to bring the strange world of the Night Watchman to life. The comics feature[...]

So What? Press is pleased to announce that it will publish two comics by Jess Ruliffsonin 2014: Invisible Wounds and City Chickens.  Invisible Wounds, is part of Ruliffson's series documenting the stories of veterans from the Iraq and Afghan wars and will debut at MoCCA Fest in New York (April 5th & 6th).  City Chickens follows the life of[...]

Ford, a Brooklyn local whose prints alone were making me drool. But Sean also had his minis of his work Shadow Hills available, a mystery story with great line-work and an interestingly tense atmosphere. Bernard Stiegler, a Baltimore area native, was up in Brooklyn with his Xeric Award grant-winning book The Reptile Mind. Molly Ostertag, Dave Kelly, and[...]

Panelists included Lara Antal (Tales of the Night Watchman), Marguerite Dabaie (The Hookah Girl and Other True Stories), Robin Ha (Women of Marvel, The Dress), Hazel Newlevent (If This Be Sin), and Molly Ostertag (Strong Female Protagonist) Dave Kelly of So What? Press was also instrumental in designing the panel and rounding up participants. It was,[...]

Genre is back in a big way – – from the movies we watch right down to the comics being published outside the mainstream – – and creators everywhere are working to redefine what it means to be a hero as well as challenging the presupposition that the good guy always gets the girl…because sometimes,[...]

The former is by Dave Kelly and Lara Antal and the latter by Kelly and Molly Ostertag.  The premise of the series is that blogger Nora and roommate Charlie follow the exploits of Charlie's possessing spirit, a "spectral detective" known as the Night Watchman He lures them into paranormal adventures, often with a dash of[...]