Join us on Wednesday, October 9 when we welcome the Inner Sunset's own, Bruce McKay, to celebrate the release of his latest book The Tengu, Act A: The Prisoners, here at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/2m5pzH6-M8E
About The Tengu
Twelve feathered Deities from across Earth0--Thoth, Garuda, and the Phoenix among them--have taken up residence in Earth2's version of the San Francisco Bay Area, named The Enclave by its inhabitants. And because this is the gods' country, their adherents are constantly seeking admission to the Enclave as either the well-behaved, clothed, caste-distinguished Inside Clans, tightly knit into a medieval society; or the Outside Clans, free of obligations to other Clans and free to worship the Deities after their own (unclothed) fashion. Each Clan has as its constituents a given superspecies of bird, so we have the Falcon Clan, the Eagle Clan, and so on. Watching over both communities is the Tengu, a powerful Raven wizard nearing the end of his duty. He's the Steward of the Enclave, charged by his godly peers to keep the Clans together as a society until they hatch every hundred years or so. And the last hatching was 1906, in our reckoning. So here is a society on the verge of great change--ansd about to be invaded by the Corpus!
An Author's Note on the Series
I began work on The Tengu in 2005 after completing my BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. For my new
career in the arts, I hit upon the idea of a project which could take many different forms--a graphic novel,
a cartoon strip, a full-length animation feature--and, in the doing of it, I would learn what I could about
storytelling, photography, graphic design, publishing, worldbuilding, and animation, as well as ornithology,
geology, cultural geography, mythology, and the locations of many parks and natural spaces across the city.
So was hatched the Tengu Project, a celebration of San Francisco, home to my family for five generations.
Act A: The Prisoners is the first of a planned thirteen-book series of 24-page comics. I've arranged the plot to take place primarily among the Bird People, a medieval society at odds with itself. The second dozen-or-so books take the action to an environmental nightmare version of Earth in the last stages before nuclear war breaks out. A powerful consortium named the Corpus has found its way to the world of the Bird People to set itself up as the masters of that planet. Finally, the last series of books covers the invasion of the Bird People's world by the Corpus. A war between the
humans and the Deities of the Bird People ensues.
About Bruce McKay
Bruce McKay is a graphic novelist living in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA in Sculpture 2003), and recently completed the Graphic Novel Intensive online program offered by Gainesville, Florida's Sequential Art Workshop. In 2021, his graphic novel, The Tengu: 30 Vignettes, was published. His current book, The Tengu, Act A: The Prisoners, will be published in September 2024.
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Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/2m5pzH6-M8E
About The Tengu
Twelve feathered Deities from across Earth0--Thoth, Garuda, and the Phoenix among them--have taken up residence in Earth2's version of the San Francisco Bay Area, named The Enclave by its inhabitants. And because this is the gods' country, their adherents are constantly seeking admission to the Enclave as either the well-behaved, clothed, caste-distinguished Inside Clans, tightly knit into a medieval society; or the Outside Clans, free of obligations to other Clans and free to worship the Deities after their own (unclothed) fashion. Each Clan has as its constituents a given superspecies of bird, so we have the Falcon Clan, the Eagle Clan, and so on. Watching over both communities is the Tengu, a powerful Raven wizard nearing the end of his duty. He's the Steward of the Enclave, charged by his godly peers to keep the Clans together as a society until they hatch every hundred years or so. And the last hatching was 1906, in our reckoning. So here is a society on the verge of great change--ansd about to be invaded by the Corpus!
An Author's Note on the Series
I began work on The Tengu in 2005 after completing my BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. For my new
career in the arts, I hit upon the idea of a project which could take many different forms--a graphic novel,
a cartoon strip, a full-length animation feature--and, in the doing of it, I would learn what I could about
storytelling, photography, graphic design, publishing, worldbuilding, and animation, as well as ornithology,
geology, cultural geography, mythology, and the locations of many parks and natural spaces across the city.
So was hatched the Tengu Project, a celebration of San Francisco, home to my family for five generations.
Act A: The Prisoners is the first of a planned thirteen-book series of 24-page comics. I've arranged the plot to take place primarily among the Bird People, a medieval society at odds with itself. The second dozen-or-so books take the action to an environmental nightmare version of Earth in the last stages before nuclear war breaks out. A powerful consortium named the Corpus has found its way to the world of the Bird People to set itself up as the masters of that planet. Finally, the last series of books covers the invasion of the Bird People's world by the Corpus. A war between the
humans and the Deities of the Bird People ensues.
About Bruce McKay
Bruce McKay is a graphic novelist living in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA in Sculpture 2003), and recently completed the Graphic Novel Intensive online program offered by Gainesville, Florida's Sequential Art Workshop. In 2021, his graphic novel, The Tengu: 30 Vignettes, was published. His current book, The Tengu, Act A: The Prisoners, will be published in September 2024.
Join us on Wednesday, October 9 when we welcome the Inner Sunset's own, Bruce McKay, to celebrate the release of his latest book The Tengu, Act A: The Prisoners, here at 9th Ave!
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/2m5pzH6-M8E
About The Tengu
Twelve feathered Deities from across Earth0--Thoth, Garuda, and the Phoenix among them--have taken up residence in Earth2's version of the San Francisco Bay Area, named The Enclave by its inhabitants. And because this is the gods' country, their adherents are constantly seeking admission to the Enclave as either the well-behaved, clothed, caste-distinguished Inside Clans, tightly knit into a medieval society; or the Outside Clans, free of obligations to other Clans and free to worship the Deities after their own (unclothed) fashion. Each Clan has as its constituents a given superspecies of bird, so we have the Falcon Clan, the Eagle Clan, and so on. Watching over both communities is the Tengu, a powerful Raven wizard nearing the end of his duty. He's the Steward of the Enclave, charged by his godly peers to keep the Clans together as a society until they hatch every hundred years or so. And the last hatching was 1906, in our reckoning. So here is a society on the verge of great change--ansd about to be invaded by the Corpus!
An Author's Note on the Series
I began work on The Tengu in 2005 after completing my BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. For my new
career in the arts, I hit upon the idea of a project which could take many different forms--a graphic novel,
a cartoon strip, a full-length animation feature--and, in the doing of it, I would learn what I could about
storytelling, photography, graphic design, publishing, worldbuilding, and animation, as well as ornithology,
geology, cultural geography, mythology, and the locations of many parks and natural spaces across the city.
So was hatched the Tengu Project, a celebration of San Francisco, home to my family for five generations.
Act A: The Prisoners is the first of a planned thirteen-book series of 24-page comics. I've arranged the plot to take place primarily among the Bird People, a medieval society at odds with itself. The second dozen-or-so books take the action to an environmental nightmare version of Earth in the last stages before nuclear war breaks out. A powerful consortium named the Corpus has found its way to the world of the Bird People to set itself up as the masters of that planet. Finally, the last series of books covers the invasion of the Bird People's world by the Corpus. A war between the
humans and the Deities of the Bird People ensues.
About Bruce McKay
Bruce McKay is a graphic novelist living in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA in Sculpture 2003), and recently completed the Graphic Novel Intensive online program offered by Gainesville, Florida's Sequential Art Workshop. In 2021, his graphic novel, The Tengu: 30 Vignettes, was published. His current book, The Tengu, Act A: The Prisoners, will be published in September 2024.
read more
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the following link: https://youtube.com/live/2m5pzH6-M8E
About The Tengu
Twelve feathered Deities from across Earth0--Thoth, Garuda, and the Phoenix among them--have taken up residence in Earth2's version of the San Francisco Bay Area, named The Enclave by its inhabitants. And because this is the gods' country, their adherents are constantly seeking admission to the Enclave as either the well-behaved, clothed, caste-distinguished Inside Clans, tightly knit into a medieval society; or the Outside Clans, free of obligations to other Clans and free to worship the Deities after their own (unclothed) fashion. Each Clan has as its constituents a given superspecies of bird, so we have the Falcon Clan, the Eagle Clan, and so on. Watching over both communities is the Tengu, a powerful Raven wizard nearing the end of his duty. He's the Steward of the Enclave, charged by his godly peers to keep the Clans together as a society until they hatch every hundred years or so. And the last hatching was 1906, in our reckoning. So here is a society on the verge of great change--ansd about to be invaded by the Corpus!
An Author's Note on the Series
I began work on The Tengu in 2005 after completing my BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. For my new
career in the arts, I hit upon the idea of a project which could take many different forms--a graphic novel,
a cartoon strip, a full-length animation feature--and, in the doing of it, I would learn what I could about
storytelling, photography, graphic design, publishing, worldbuilding, and animation, as well as ornithology,
geology, cultural geography, mythology, and the locations of many parks and natural spaces across the city.
So was hatched the Tengu Project, a celebration of San Francisco, home to my family for five generations.
Act A: The Prisoners is the first of a planned thirteen-book series of 24-page comics. I've arranged the plot to take place primarily among the Bird People, a medieval society at odds with itself. The second dozen-or-so books take the action to an environmental nightmare version of Earth in the last stages before nuclear war breaks out. A powerful consortium named the Corpus has found its way to the world of the Bird People to set itself up as the masters of that planet. Finally, the last series of books covers the invasion of the Bird People's world by the Corpus. A war between the
humans and the Deities of the Bird People ensues.
About Bruce McKay
Bruce McKay is a graphic novelist living in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA in Sculpture 2003), and recently completed the Graphic Novel Intensive online program offered by Gainesville, Florida's Sequential Art Workshop. In 2021, his graphic novel, The Tengu: 30 Vignettes, was published. His current book, The Tengu, Act A: The Prisoners, will be published in September 2024.
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