Format: Black and White Mini-Comic, Paperback, Full Color Covers.
Pages: 132 counting the covers. 119 pages of story.
Price: $3.00
Art and Story: Larry Blake
Printable Order Form: Click Here
Regular Mail: (Larry Blake)
Larry Blake
69306 St. Rt. 124
Reedsville, OH 45772
Be sure to check out the Larry Blake Interview
in PDF format.
Originally printed in the SPS newsletter Rap Sheet issue #108, I’ve made it available to all those who are interested in reading Larry Blake’s opinions or who would like to reprint this article for their own Zines. As the opening page blurb makes clear, Larry Blake has been involved in small press for a long time now and has some interesting insights to share.
"Creator of Nightstar, he’s been in the small press since 1973, and has produced thousands of pages of material in that time. He’s witnessed the changes in the small press, for better and for worse, over a span 3 decades, and is here now to share a bit of his experiences and opinions".
This is a .PDF File that is 2,303-KB, (Over 2 Megs) It contains high quality, 600 dpi images that make for excellent printing. Formatted for Digest size books. (5.5x8.5") This interview is free for reproduction in print, and on the web so long as the suitable copyright notices are give for Larry Blake’s art work. I strongly recommend that you right click on the icon to the left and select "Save Link As" to save the file to disk, otherwise you might be stuck for a long time waiting for this page to load.
Daniel Nauenburg.
04/24/2003
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Larry Blake’s "Night Star" was the book of choice for me (Daniel Nauenburg) when I decided to prove my book making process. See the Small Press "How To" section for information on how I made this book. As you can see by the information provided above, this is a trade paperback book. What you may not be aware of is that this paperback book was made by hand using common tools available in any good hardware store. The story behind this book is quite simple. I had a book making process that needed proving and Larry Blake a book that needed publishing. Coming soon to this web site is a photo essay detailing what this book looks like bound up, and the successes and failures of my book making process.
Below is a synopsis of the actual content of the book detailing the story that Larry Blake was good enough to allow me to publish for him.
Night Star is a work in progress according to Larry Blake. In fact the material in this edition is a re-working of older material by the same name, expanded out to a much larger and richly detailed story. Potential readers should know that of the 119 pages of material, this is not enough to complete the story. Rather, Larry informs me that Night Star is an ongoing story that has no definite ending. That means that you can think of this book as one huge first issue.
The story in this first big issue deals with the origin of, you guessed it, Night Star, an apparently human woman that has extraordinary powers built into her by a crazy alien named Lar-Ekal that fled his home planet because he thought that is was doomed. You might say he’s an intergalactic mental patient. Night Star, totally devoid of a past, must discover what her role in the world is, and what her powers are, and their limits. But just as she is emerging into this strange new world for the first time like a child being borne, so to are a series of other "Hyper Humans" and human looking Aliens that exhibit extraordinary powers of their own, emerge to complicate matters.
Above are a series of sample pages for your viewing pleasure. If you like what you see and would like to get a copy for your self, contact Larry Blake and he will tell you how you can get your own copy, or use the convenient
print and mail order form
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