DONOVAN LEITCH AND DANDY WARHOLS’ COURTNEY TAYLOR

RELEASE FIRST EPIC CINEMATIC GRAPHIC NOVEL ENTITLED

ONE MODEL NATION



Graphics by famed Street Angel illustrator Jim Rugg



Controversial political band’s historic story uncovered



“a captivating graphic novel…” says Fanboy.com



Los Angeles, CA (September 22, 2009) - One Model Nation (www.onemodelnation.com), the first cinematic, action packed, graphic novel of its kind, will be released by Image Comics (www.imagecomics.com) on October 28, 2009, in book-stores nationwide.



Donovan Leitchn, C. Allbritton Taylor of The Dandy Warhols and Street Angel illustrator Jim Rugg piece together the complete story of the political art-noise band One Model Nation, revealing just how they kick started the revolution that revitalized a country, the final dark days of the Baader-Meinhof Gang and the band's mysterious disappearance a few months later.



The story is set in Germany in 1977, when the country is still shattered from the devastation of war and the harsh realities of communism. The country’s youth are fighting back against a repressed nation with their only figurehead for this violent, well dressed revolution, a band, later to be forever lost in time, One Model Nation.



With stunning graphics and Scorsese-esque electricity, One Model Nation captures the arts and politics of an era whose influence can not be measured.



"This is a life's work for me," says C. Allbritton Taylor. "From the Munich Olympics to the heyday of raves, hip hop to state-of-the-art handguns, this era has informed modern culture, fashion, politics, technology, you name it. But this dark time has been a relative German secret which only recently has begun to be revealed, mostly due to the birth of the internet. On a personal level I needed to see this time and place fleshed out into people and events that make sense yet maintain heroic proportions. Donovan spent years researching the multitude of bizarre and overwhelming events in which these people lived their lives and made their noble, everyman decisions. This story needed to be told."



"I have always been fascinated by post-war Germany, the counter-culture revolutionaries and their violent upheaval against the rise of capitalism in a Communist country. The fact that One Model Nation, four musicians who helped to create electronica, was unwittingly pulled into the battle being waged between these two forces makes their story all the more compelling. This is the equivalent to a Syd Barrett German epic," says Donovan Leitch.