Autour de Minuit to publish Rosto graphic novel ‘Mind My Gap’
In March of this year the enormously prolific and inspirational Dutch artist/director/musician Rosto sadly passed away. While he left behind an enormous and impressive body of work, there were also a number of unfinished projects that fans of his will hopefully soon get the opportunity to see released.
A friend of the site and significant contributor to the Skwigly book Independent Animation, Rosto’s enthusiasm and passion for his work was clearly demonstrated by the sheer volume of his output. With musical origins dating back to the early nineties, Rosto’s interactive graphic novel project Mind My Gap ran from 1999-2014 and spawned a number of multi-award-winning animated shorts along the way, including (the rise an fall of the legendary) Anglobilly Feverson, The Monster of Nix, No Place Like Home, Lonely Bones (the concluding chapter of Mind My Gap) followed by the continuing adventures of the metaphysical band Thee Wreckers with Splintertime and his final film Reruns.
While his magnum opus of a feature film adaptation of the Mind My Gap universe sadly never came to be, in his later years Rosto successfully adapted the grand, mystical odyssey as a physical graphic novel, intended to be released alongside a package of songs from Thee Wreckers. Thanks to the efforts of those close to Rosto and Autour de Minuit, the production company he had been affiliated with for the last and most significant decade of his professional career, the graphic novel and 2CD set are now ready to be published.
Through an incentive-driven crowdfunding campaign that has officially launched today, fans of Rosto’s work can pre-order the set as well as a variety of other milestones of the artist’s legacy, such as the full Thee Wreckers Tetralogy on DVD/BluRay, earlier works including the original Mind My Gap shorts trilogy and The Monster of Nix, a limited edition 180g vinyl LP and an assortment of prints, collectibles and rarities.
As will most campaigns the work can only be published if the proposed funding goal is met, so to learn more visit the project’s page at kisskissbankbank.com
To learn more about the late great Rosto and his work you can listen back to our interviews with the man himself in episode 48 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast (download) and episode 5 of Independent Animation (download):