After many years of inspiration, collaboration, frustration and moments of pure joy, the first ever print edition of James Stafford’s The Sorrowful Putto of Prague is now available. And in a particularly pleasant hardback format too.
In May the Czech edition of the comic, Truchlivy Amoret Prazsky, was published by esteemed literary publishers Argo. For those unable to visit the multitude of wonderful bookshops selling the title, you can buy online here.
The book was launched with a fantastic ‘Christening’ in Cafe v lese in Prague. The evening saw a fantastic musical performance from Czech musician KITTCHEN who also was kind enough to agree to formally ‘Christen’ the book.
For the occasion KITTCHEN even put together an achingly beautiful piece of music which you can listen to the books official soundtrack here or watch in the below video (don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube account).
James has been overwhelmed by the flood of great press the book has had so far in the Czech press across television, radio, newspapers, magazines and online. He has also made several festival appearances to talk about the book too.
James would like to express his special thanks to Petr Onufer for believing in the project from the beginning; Richard Klicnik for his hard work and support (and his infectious love of comics); Gabriela Kisza for dealing with battalions of questions and being superb support; Pavel Růt for his wonderful eye; Alena Tejnická for the exquisite lettering; Milan Gelnar for also buying into the concept from early days and all the other good souls on the swift ship Argo such as Barbora Šedivá and Milan Dorazil.
Truchlivý amoret pražský has been blessed with some spectacular press to date (with it seems a lot more coming!) and Stafford wants to send quiver loads of arrows of appreciation towards 2Media – with special attention for Radka Potměšilová and Petra Vondrová.