Known for creating darkly humorous, semi-autobiographical fiction that features troubled writer characters with shady pasts, Brooklyn-based Jonathan Ames is a true modern-day renaissance man -- author of six published books, retired boxer and screenwriter of HBO's "Bored to Death” (which will star Jason Schwartzman) as well as several other currently in-development projects.

With DC/Vertigo's "The Alcoholic," Ames branches into new literary territory -- a 136-page original graphic novel, illustrated by good friend and fellow Brooklynite Dean Haspiel. The book hits stores on Sept. 24, and the writer sums up the tale – which revolves around a writer named “Jonathan A.” -- as “a life-story as one big bender, and so there are plenty of girls and fights and madness and heartbreak.”

After the jump, check out our exclusive 6-page preview and more from our interview, where the writer discusses learning a new form of storytelling, working with his pal Haspiel, and also his upcoming HBO comedy, which features a very familiar character. Read more...

Ebony Thomas aka Ebony Bones is a star in our book -- along with making truly danceable post-punk electro-pop, she is a comics lover who named her stage persona after her favorite childhood comic, DC Comics villain, "Mister Bones."

We caught up with the Brit sensation on Sunday at the last McCarren Park Pool Party in Brooklyn, New York, where she explained the origin tale of "Ebony Bones." Watch it below.

Ebony also shared that she is considering creating a comic of her own. With her carnivalesque stage show and eye-popping fashion sense, we can only wonder what sort of world would inhabit the pages of an Ebony Bones comic.