A graphic novel of 210 pages (hardcover book) which includes 2 CDs (30 unreleased songs) by Thee Wreckers

//UPDATE\\

Thank you to all the bankers, supports and connections who helped to make this campaign a success!

The rewards are still available in preorder at boutique@autourdeminuit.com 

We are launching the production of the different objects which will be delivered at the latest during the month of March.

Mind My Gap is a multimedia project by artist-director-musician Rosto, several times awarded for his work at Cannes, Annecy, Amsterdam, Clermont-Ferrand, Ottawa, Hiroshima...

It all started with a bunch of Rock’n’Roll songs which inspired an online graphic novel, which in turned spawned a series of short films, and then a collection of new songs.
Rosto worked on this graphic novel from 1999 to 2014.
He had always had in mind the project of adapting Mind My Gap into a physical object: a comic book or graphic novel containing the songs that inspired his whole visual universe.

Just before Rosto’s passing in March 2019, he had completed the mock-up of the 210 pages of the graphic novel Mind My Gap and the recording and mixing of the thirty tracks from the double album Songs From My Gap, of his group Thee Wreckers.

The graphic novel Mind My Gap and the two CDs of Songs From My Gap, as Rosto had imagined them, are now ready to be published.

Here is a glimpse in music of a few pages of the book :

About the Mind My Gap project

In 1995, Rosto started writing a series of songs performed by his group The Wreckers (Rosto, Walley, Rooney, Folley) which became the blueprint for his graphic novel.

Mind My Gap was officially launched in 1999 with the publication of Map 1: Highway in a Dutch magazine.

Taking advantage of the early days of the Internet, the graphic novel found its place online as a series of interactive flash films. Every episode was based on one of the songs by Rosto’s band, The Wreckers.

Mind My Gap was an adventure for Rosto and his audience as the series was intuitively developed on the go. No one knew what was going to happen next … until it happened.

By the time the graphic novel was concluded in 2014, the magazine had long disappeared, the web had evolved into a dominating household commodity and flash was considered obsolete technology. Mind My Gap became an Internet relic, the first and longest running web-series.

In the meantime, Mind My Gap developed as a full-fledged universe. A trilogy of short films was first produced: Beheaded (1999), (The Rise and Fall of the Legendary) Anglobilly Feverson (2001) and Jona/Tomberry (2005).

The episodes No Place Like Home (2008) and Lonely Bones (2012) were also produced and distributed as short films (they later became the two first parts of a tetralogy depicting the members of his band, now virtual and renamed THEE Wreckers).

Thee Wreckers proceeded to do what the original mortal band failed to do: to perpetuate the Geist (the Spirit) and record those damn tunes the way they were supposed to sound. The result is Songs From My Gap, a double album including 30 songs by Thee Wreckers, that you will be able to discover with the graphic novel in the box set Mind My Gap, but also digitally in March 2020.

The rewards for the Mind My Gap campaign

In addition to the boxset Mind My Gap (a 210-page graphic novel and the double album Songs From My Gap), we are also creating:

- A collector 33-rpm vinyl (180g) called “SO FAR SO EVIL” which includes 10 tracks from Rosto’s short films.

Track list:

A SIDE - TRILOGY

Beheaded
FoggyXTalk
Anglobilly
The Between
Hidden track

B SIDE - TETRALOGY

No Place Like Home
Lonely Bones
Splintertime
Reruns
A Maze in Trades

- A DVD/Blu-Ray set of “Thee Wreckers Tetralogy” which includes:

The Tetralogy (No Place Like Home, Lonely Bones, Splintertime, Reruns),
The exclusive 52-minute extended version of the documentary “Everything’s different but nothing has changed” by Joao Costa and Robert Gradisen,
Many bonuses (animated tests and preparatory documents of the Tetralogy, storyboards, interviews of Rosto, musical demos, the Wreckers animated and many other surprises).

- An exclusive double-sided flipbook “Thee Flippin’ Wreckers”

Rosto's Mind My Gap (graphic novel book + 2 CDs)