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Always Goodbye: the graphic novel
https://www.amazon.com/Always-Goodbye-Ray-Hecht-ebook/dp/B07ZYFRYJK
I am proud to announce that my graphic novel Always Goodbye has now been published by TWG Press, and for a special promotion this week it is free to download for the Kindle app!
Please enjoy, and of course if you like you can share and review and just plain tell me what you think ~
Synopsis:
Life can take a man many places.
Born in disputed Israel, fostered in Middle America, and then finally driven into Rising China—Ray Hecht takes journey after journey as he tries to figure it all out. He goes down many paths from the years 1982 to 2019, attempting and failing at new identities with each passing decade: artist, filmmaker, journalist, and author.
Told in simple lines and crude forms, Ray’s graphic memoir Always Goodbye rushes through the milestones of a person’s life with harsh sincerity. Follow along these memories of a man’s travels across the globe as he tries to find himself, always saying goodbye but then reconnecting all over again, as many times as it takes…
2016 – 2019: Goodbye China, Hello Taiwan! THE END
Previous: 2014 – 2015: Love and Publishing
2016 – 2019: Terrible politics, book tour, leaving China and coming to Taiwan! Various family trips from Israel to South Africa and California. Art and comics and Burning herein. At last, we catch up to now (so meta) and I reflect… Thus, an ending.
Thanks so much to you all for reading this, my humble life story!
2014 – 2015: Love and Publishing
Previous: 2013: My epic clusterfuck drama year
2014 – 2015: After recovering from some heartache, I reinvent myself yet again (tattoos, grey hair). Then family, family, and more family; meeting the next generation.
And at long last the love of my life, and we meet each others’ parents *shudder* … Africa!
Lastly, novel published.
2013: My epic clusterfuck drama year
Previous: 2011 to 2012: Turning thirty, weddings, and the end of the world
2013 – My epic clusterfuck drama year: It should have been nice, I joined a writing group ad even got a newspaper job. But endless relationship drama kinda’ ruined everything, such as when I got a stalker and also some of that all-encompassing despair of heartache…
2011 – 2012: Growing up, turning 30, weddings, and the end of the world
Previous: 2009 to 2010 The Expat Life: A new decade living it up in Shenzhen, China
2011 and 2012, beginning with my Guangzhou year. Didn’t work out well, so I returned to Shenzhen. Meanwhile so much travel, all over Southeast Asia and returns to Israel and Japan. Plus foreshadowing in Taiwan, and Hipster Pacific Northwest too. And I go to both my sister’s wedding and my best friend’s wedding. Growing up!
2009 – 2010 comics: Experiencing the new decade as an expat in China
Previous: 2007 to 2008 How Burning Man and psychedelics led me to China
2009 and 2010, the beginnings of a new decade, as I become acclimated to life in Shenzhen/Hong Kong and have fun traveling in Southeast Asia (and America), and family stuff… plus I start dating somewhat regularly. Crazy, right?
2007 – 2008: How Burning Man and psychedelics led me to China (Finally!)
Previous: 2005 to 2006 Mid-Aughts
2007 and 2008 were quite the years: a time of friendship and drug experimentation and further travel, and then back to Burning Man… Which leads to the moment you’ve all been waiting for, at last I move to China!
Mid-Aughts 2005 to 2006 – Around the World: London, Paris, Hollywood, Girls
Previous: 2002 to 2004 Early-Aughts
Covering the years 2005 to 2006, in which I traveled to Europe (with my mom), met my first true girlfriend, and finally re-moved to California. There I failed in L.A., but I did make some short films. And I began to write…
Early Aughties the comic: feat. California, war, college, Japan
Previous: New Millennium 2000 – 2001
2002 to 2004, featuring moving to California for a year, terrible Bush-era politics/war, then triumphant return to Cincinnati–in which we live in a party house and go to college and grow up. And I go to Japan!
2000 – 2001, New Millennium: On Teenage Sexuality (or lack thereof). And 9/11
Previous: Late 90s
2000 to 2001, Happy New Year! I finally somehow graduate, Israel travel x 2, and some reflection on girls. Then, yet another national tragedy… Welcome to the 21st Century
Late-90s: High school! Depression! Punks!
Previous: Mid 90s
1997 to 1999… a time of new friends, crippling depression, and various punk scenes as the kid struggles to keep it together while high school just ends
Mid-90s Comics Life Story, welcome to high school
Previous: Early 90s
Latest chapters of Always Goodbye on Webtoons.com
1994 to 1996, with dog and religion and continuing education and new best friend and reading and CDs and the all more trouble
A Life Story in Comics: Early-90s Childhood
Previous: My Late-80s Childhood
Follow the latest chapters of Always Goodbye on Webtoons
Featuring being a weird kid, divorce, and becoming a fanboy…
