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Free music: Atomic Drugs Activated EP

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:22:11 +0100

ATOMIC DRUGS ACTIVATED is a free remix EP of selections from the second Berlin Equals Boys album, DIVIDED BY MISUNDERSTANDING, due out April 1, 2010. These five songs further the digital manipulation of environments colliding that marked the band's first album, 2009's ANTI-LIFE EQUATION.

Download the new EP for free over at their Bandcamp page.

Trees & Hills 2010 publishing plans

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:23:02 +0100

SEEDS printed for the 3rd time!

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:33:15 +0100

Due to continued demand for the Trees & Hills 2008 anthology about food, SEEDS has gone into a third printing! Colin Tedford and I had a great time stamping the apple print covers at Cat Garza's house in White River Junction, Vt. in early December. The books are for sale at www.treesandhills.org and each copy comes with a recipe book and organic seeds.

Happy holidays from Dan Barlow and the Trees & Hills comic group

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:33:35 +0100

ANTI-LIFE EQUATION LP - Free!

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:38:29 +0100

Oct. 2009 - Berlin Equals Boys' free debut LP

Download the full album here.

Download mirror #1

Anti-Life Equation

1. Saturn Devours His Son

2. Gone

3. In Truth or Consequences (it was clear)

4. Here Comes the Knife

5. Sea Serpents

6. Anti-Life Equation

7. The Wasteland

8. The Gods of the Hills are not the Gods of the Valleys

9. Sundays

10. Guh

11. Loyal

12. Death Squads Are After Us

13. doublezero

Anti-Life Equation CD art #1

Anti-Life Equation CD art #2

The lost SHELTER comic

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:02:17 +0100

Free comic! Tim Hulsizer and I worked on a story called HOME this year for the Trees & Hills anthology, SHELTER. Do to some time constraints, the story wasn't finished in time (Colin Tedford stepped in and illustrated the script in a marathan all-night session three days before the comic came out and I'm forever grateful to him for it. Buy the comic and check it out).

Well, Tim has posted the entire five-page comic - his version. Beautiful work and I'm glad it's finally out there.

It's a little story about a home that was owned, taken away, deserted, looted, love and then lost. And it was my latest practice in telling shorter comic stores with fewer words, a trick I picked up from Marek Bennett's mostly-wordless contributions to Trees & Hills anthologies.

The first page of the comic is below. The whole thing can be read at this link.

Fall 2009 new comics

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:21:32 +0100

Wow, it's been a long time since I updated this site! Well, Fall is here and there are two new comics out that I worked on. I'm very proud of both these books, which debuted at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland.

SHELTER: A Trees & Hills anthology about housing issues. I co-edited the book and wrote a story called HOME, illustrated by Colin Tedford.

BIG SEXY is an athology of erotic comics for adults! I also co-edited this book and wrote a story called THE IRIS OF BERLIN, illustrated by Cayetano Garza Jr. This is the first book by my new comics group, Offshore Comix.

FIRST HARVEST book released this week

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:44:05 +0100

TREES & HILLS COMIC GROUP RELEASES FIRST BOOK "First Harvest" debuts this week at major indie show in New York City MONTPELIER, Vt. – Trees & Hills comic group releases its first book collection of comics this week at the MoCCA Arts Festival in New York City. "First Harvest: Trees & Hills comics volume one" features more than 150 pages of cartoons from two dozen creators in Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts. The book contains reader favorites from Trees & Hills’ first four mini-comic anthologies, published between Fall 2006 and Summer 2008, along with new work by creators in the New England region. Contributors include industry legends such as Stephen R. Bissette and Mark Martin and up-and-coming talent like Colleen Frakes and Marek Bennett. "There’s some amazing work in here and we’re proud to put it in book form where it will remain in print," said Dan Barlow, a Vermont writer and the co-founder of Trees & Hills. "These are the roots of the Trees & Hills comic group and they are strong." "First Harvest" will be available on June 6 & 7 at the Trees & Hills table at the MoCCA Arts Festival. The book features a color cover by Vermont artist Megan Baehr and will sell for $10. The book will also be available to purchase from the Trees & Hills Web site one week after the show. Trees & Hills comic group formed in 2006 with the mission of developing a strong community among cartoonists and other comic creators in Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts. Last year, the group published the successful "Seeds: An Anthology of Comics About Food" mini-comic, featuring comics about nutrition, eating organic and local and alternative food lifestyles. "Seeds" sold out just months after the debut and is now in its second printing. Copies of "Seeds" will also be available at MoCCA this week. The $5 comic comes with a recipe booklet and a packet of organic seeds from a Vermont farm. New Hampshire cartoonist and Trees & Hills co-founder Colin Tedford said the publication of "Seeds" last year has inspired the group to a new focus on socially-progressive comic anthologies. "First Harvest" closes the door on the first chapter of the group, he explained. "Each new anthology we produced marked a progression, but Seeds was a real turning point for us - we realized, 'This is what we need to do,'" Tedford said. "First Harvest is a record of where we've been. It feels good to have that, where a few years ago there was no such thing." Fall 2009 sees the release of "Shelter," a new Trees & Hills mini-comic anthology focusing on issues of housing and homes. The comic will debut at the Small Press Expo in Maryland on Sept. 26. "First Harvest" contributors include Megan Baehr, Matt Levin, Chris Grotke, Matthew Reidsma, Anne Thalheimer, Mark Martin, Bryan Stone, Colleen Frakes, Morgan Pielli, Stephen R. Bissette, Daniel Bissette, Meagan Frappiea, Colin Tedford, Keith Moriarty, Blake Parker, Benjamin Kalish, Miles Cota, Ray Prado, M.R. Wilson, Bill Couture, Marek Bennett, Jade Harmon, Mark Gonyea, Jennifer Omand, Matthew Young, Tim Hulsizer, Cayetano Garza Jr. and Gregory Giordano. For more information, visit www.treesandhills.org

FIRST HARVEST cover

Wed, 27 May 2009 17:36:30 +0100

FIRST HARVEST cover by Megan Baehr. $10 for 166 pages of comics from Vermont, New Hampshire and western Massachusetts. Available at MoCCA next month.

New I SAW YOU review

Wed, 13 May 2009 03:32:19 +0100

From Sawce Box:

"The comics that engage more with their subject matter come off really strong, specifically ... Daniel Barlow and Megan Baehr’s heartbreaking interpretation of an old, washed-out musician’s longing for Brenda, a bartender from his glory days."

More of the review at the link.