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Beatty's "Jazz: The Tiki Room" in Free Online Magazine

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Xeric winner Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: The Tiki Room fiction is featured in the free online magazine MuskegonOnline.NET this month only.

The story, in a modernist retro style, follows jazz pianist Dean Fontessa as he pulls together—then splits apart—a five piece combo for a club recently decorated in that happening, new style called tiki. Spin a Miles vinyl and enjoy, dig?

Find the story at the bottom left under the “Fiction" heading at http://muskegononline.net

Gary Scott Beatty's Jazz: Cool Birth, a murder mystery in a 1957 jazz club with art and typography based on '50s album cover design, earned him a Xeric Foundation Grant. He colors, letters and produces comic books and magazines for a diverse range of companies and has written for Comic Buyer's Guide.

“Through study of album cover design, television program title artwork, and common illustrations used in everything from health booklets to instruction manuals from the '50s, I attempted to pull readers into the late night jazz clubs of 1957, feeling the music through the visuals," said Beatty.

“Ignoring paint and ink magazine illustration, a left over style from previous decades, I concentrate on the combination of flat and painterly used by artists working with T-squares and triangles, tracing paper, ruling pens and brush, preparing work for rotary letterpresses and similar hands-on intensive printing methods."

Muskegon Online-dot-NET is Muskegon County, Michigan's free, monthly, online magazine. Locally owned and produced, the new magazine approaches local experts for articles that can impact the community's health, business and life.

Jazz: The Tiki Room will be online to read through the month of February, 2012.

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