GRAPHIC NYC: How ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ influenced BROWNSVILLE

Here’s a fun essay I wrote for Graphic NYC about the movie ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA and how it influenced my book, BROWNSVILLE. “Brownsville, the graphic novel I created for NBM Publishing with Jake Allen, counts influences from mafia films and novels, history and transcripts, and comic book creators ranging from Will Eisner [...]

Read About Comics gives BIG KAHN a great review!

Greg McElhatton gives THE BIG KAHN a kickass review here. “The Big Kahn is easily Kleid’s best work to date as a writer; it’s clever and gripping, and there are a couple of turns in the story as it heads towards the conclusion that genuinely surprised me even as they still made sense. This feels [...]

San Francisco Jewish Weekly Interview, Part 1

Hey, I was interviewed this past week for the San Francisco Jewish Weekly’s Comix Friday column and the first part went live HERE. Next week, we expand on THE BIG KAHN in detail. “If you do know what you’re doing, art can be a little more tedious than writing. I can write a 200-page graphic [...]

THE BIG KAHN at The Big Con!

Here’s where’ll you’ll find me at the show… might have 50 or so stickers with me for lucky consumers… working on them tonight.

Neil appearing at Comic Book Club in NYC 7/14, Prepping for SDCC

Sometimes I wish I had more time to blog these days… but when I’m absent, you all know it’s because I’m doing the work, right? Right. And, oh what work there is. To quickly update you, THE BIG KAHN has been sent to the printer and will be hitting your local comic stores at the [...]

Let Slip the Dogs of War

So, with THE BIG KAHN a month from dropping in your hot little hands, I thought I’d duck in here and tease my third NBM book a little, currently titled “AMERICAN CAESAR.” It’s interesting; BIG KAHN was written before BROWNSVILLE, my first book, and CAESAR was actually penned even before that, but as both a [...]

May PREVIEWS closing: Preorder THE BIG KAHN from your retailer today!

Just chiming in to remind you that the month of May is almost over and with retailers finalizing their orders, it’s time to get in your preorder for THE BIG KAHN, my new graphic novel for NBM Publishing using Diamond Order Code MAY090988 Rabbi David Kahn has lived a forty-year lie: he is not, nor [...]

The Year of Loving Dangerously

Ted Rall here. I’m packing up to do a French tour. The French edition of SILK ROAD TO RUIN, which NBM published in 2006, is coming out this month! I’m going to be at the big cartoon festival at Angoulême as well as a travel-oriented festival in Paris in ate January and early February, respectively. [...]