Tori Amos hosted a live webchat with fans earlier today on topics including today’s release of “Comic Book Tattoo”!

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Take a look at recent photos of Tori looking fabulous (and sans wig!) taken by Rantz Hoseley in between takes of CBT video interviews recorded before the San Diego Comicon.

Source: Rantz Hoseley’s Flickr.

The Tori fanzine Little Blue World will, after 8 years and 32 issues, cease publication with our final issue of Winter 2009. While we have very much appreciated the opportunity to produce our labor of love for the Tori community, the sharp rise in production costs has made it impossible for us to continue as a professionally printed zine without compromising the production values to which we are committed. We are proud of the 30 issues we have completed and will do our best to make #31 and #32 memorable.

Issue #30 will ship in late July. This issue includes:

* Interviews with comic book artist Ming Doyle, calendar artist Lee Moyer (with concept art) and personality Perez Hilton.
* A birthday tribute to Y Kant Tori Read, including an investigation of the other artists who contributed to that work and a look at the packaging of a rock vixen.
* Feature articles, including part one of an analysis on Tori’s covers, with a detailed focus on “Angie”; an investigation of the “sex sells” market of modern music; and a deeper look at “The Light Princess,” the inspiration for Tori’s upcoming project.
* Plus, regular features including news, a song analysis (”Pandora’s Aquarium”) and a music review (Fall of Snow).

In our time of transition, we will be offering pro-rated subscriptions. New and renewing subscribers will have the option to subscribe at reduced rates for our remaining issues. Also, to help raise money to meet anticipated publication expenses through Winter 2009, we are offering our back issue packs at the most substantial discount we have ever offered. These great bargains will end without warning and prices return to normal when we meet our goal, so if you want to take advantage of them, check them out soon.

For more information about back issues, this issue, or how to subscribe, visit http://www.little-blue-world.org. If you have questions about an existing subscription or a subscription you’d like to start, please send them to our subscriptions editor, Aimee Lortskell, at subscriptions@little-blue-world.org. If you will still be owed issues after Winter 2009, we will compensate you for the issues that cannot be delivered. If you have other questions about the fanzine, please send them to editor@little-blue-world.org, where they will be received by Nadyne Mielke and Angela Reid.

As you may know, on July 23, 2008 Tori Amos and Image Comics release COMIC BOOK TATTOO, a 480-page, full color anthology adapting the themes and ideas behind her songs into a lush volume of sequential art. Editor Rantz Hoseley said, “While the connections between comics and music have been long established by generations of creators, Comic Book Tattoo is the pure distillation of how these two art forms inspire and feed off of each other across all the classifications, genres and styles of comic storytelling. Like Tori’s music, these
stories run the gamut of human experience, emotion and imagination brought to life by some of the most compelling and innovative creators in the field of comics.”

Pre-Order COMIC BOOK TATTOO @ Amazon.com Now!
Comic Book Tattoo Limited Edition Hardcover
Comic Book Tattoo Hardcover
Comic Book Tattoo Paperback

See more photos of Comic Book Tattoo in the Gallery and on Rantz’s Flickr page

The Graveyard Book is an upcoming novel written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Dave Mckean. It’s about a boy whose parents are killed is adopted and raised by the occupants of a graveyard. The Graveyard Book releases September 30, 2008. You can PRE-ORDER The Graveyard Book now at Amazon.com.

I’m happy to report that Google has finally given this site a clean bill of health (despite it being two months since I removed all of the infection! You should no longer see a warning in Google search results associated with this site. HUZZAH!

John Philip Shenale has been creating orchestral arrangements for Tori since Little Earthquakes. Here’s some clues about Tori’s upcoming projects from Myspace Blog:

there are many new things going on in Tori’s world,
and ill be involved with 2 projects over the next month.
the Musical and record.
A very xciting time and if anybody can make the current chaos work in the record
world for them it is T.
More info with a number of other cool projects will be coming
when dates are finalized.
i think its going to be an interesting summer!!!

Thanks to sway_paperdollwho posted this in the Tori Amos LiveJournal Community.

A message from Tori: On parting ways with Epic/Sony and heading in the indie direction

“This is an exciting time. There will be many ways in the present and in the future for artists to cross what has become the new unchartered Music Frontier. Ways that may seem impossible today but in a months time will seem probable. There are many ways to be involved in a structure. But what kind of structure will it be and what will be the make up of it’s foundation? These are important questions, so important that I’ve been observing many different working templates in the music business for years now. The key word here is the word “working.” In some cases these structures do not work positively for some artists. Only for those who have designed the system to specifically “work” for the corporate few. Artists need not fear structure, we just have to design and partner with expansive ideas. It is time for us as artists to stop being dependent, dependent on any system that has become undependable. Only then can we help to create a new system that propagates and secures independence for each creator.”

Read more about Tori’s break from Epic Records on Undented.

Toriamos.com looks to be undergoing a redesign during this time showing a temporary holding page.

Looking for the old ToriAmos.com? The American Doll Posse community site will be relaunching at a new URL very soon. Keep checking back.

Also, Tori to Headline Dranouter Festival this August!

Tori is confirmed as the headliner for the Dranouter Festival in Belgium this summer. Here are the details:

August 1, 2008
Dranouter Festival
Belgium
10:30 pm
Performing solo on Kayam Main Stage

The other artists on the bill include Loreena Mc Kennit, Billy Bragg, Ozark Henry, Woven Hand, Howe Gelb, Martha Wainwright, Grupo Fantasma, Dj Dolores, Lonely Drifter Karen, Xavier Rudd, Jim White and many more.

Tickets are on sale and here is where you can get them:
BELGIUM: http://www.kbc.be/ticketshop or ticketphone: 078/155151
FRANCE: http://www.fnac.fr/
NETHERLANDS: http://www.ticketservice.nl or Ticketservice 0900/300 1250
OTHER COUNTRIES : 0032/57 446933

[from toriamos.com]