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types of storytelling contrast

Wrote some thoughts on Herriman... dominobooks.org/blog.html

Wrote about a few of the comics i got at the Philly Comics Expo yesterday over at arecomicsevengood.tumblr.com, the first few I read and liked anyway, got enough my reading should continue for a few days to come

Aragonés

Schulz, 1992

Candace Owens is basically a contemporary surrealist, sorta just believing whatever fantastic thoughts occur and following them further/embellishing them, much more orthodox surrealism than someone making a painting of a weird looking face.

Don’t miss EA Bethea tmrw at @ PCX at the Domino table (#70). Bethea will have tons of her comics for sale. She’ll also be participating in a panel @ 3:45, moderated by Katie Lane. It all takes place 10/3, The Old Pine Community Center, 401 Lombard St, Philly, 10am-6pm

Did I tell you I have a new book out? Probably not, I am bad at promotion, but happy to have my latest printed comic available now at @dominocomics.bsky.social web shop.

Dozens and dozens of incredible books added to the site over the last few weeks, if you haven’t visited shop recently, go take a look: dominobooks.org/store.html

I teach a Graphic Novels class, every session is 3 hours. Usually, I break up classes w/ different material: we discuss main assigned book, then a short story. For last 2 classes, we discussed Gogo Monster for entire 3 hours & still didn't cover enough. Wonder how many GNs you could do this with.

One thing I aspire to with writing is to be a good interviewer, which is a crazy goal as the other person is such a huge variable. Still, my conversation with Molly Colleen O'Connell turned up some real insights on how an unconventional path led to such strong work

RETAILERS! We added 7 books to our wholesale operation, there are currently 50+ books in stock that your store can order from with just a click dominobooks.org/wholesale.html

back in stock! well, actually, in stock for the first time as a paperback, we finally can sell copies of Suehiro Maruo's Panorama Island! This is the NEW edition from Last Gasp, we have limited copies for the site (and a few for PCX this weekend), grab it here: dominobooks.org/panorama.html

Under my comics theocracy, Mort Walker’s Lexicon of Comicana would be burned on sight.

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nooooooo!!!!! but also, of course

Doing an assignment with SVA Storytelling students where I have them create a story about a thought or an emotion that's important to them where they can't spell out what the thought or feeling is. Showing them Clowes' Caricature as an example...

reading some zak sally comics, recalling old review where Nick Gazin implied Zak Sally can't draw...dunno if there's ever been a more incorrect written statement by a comics critics. I actually like Nick some of the time, entertaining writer, but Sally draws better than maybe all of 'indie' comics.

I do wonder if this following fact will ever change: people continue to make incredible works of art in comics with essentially zero support

overheard a student leaving my class today say ‘i really gotta put on my thinking cap for this class’.

I also wrote a bit more on my Patreon blog, a free post www.patreon.com/posts/139676...

rip Elijah Brubaker, my friend and collaborator. www.tcj.com/elijah-bruba...

Elijah was one of our best, with a wry, unflinching vision and one of the deftest hands there ever was. Goodbye, my friend.

fucking awful. The kind of talent that alternative comics and only alternative comics could give a voice to. We're poorer for his loss.

This is a touching remembrance for a great cartoonist and another all too frequent reminder to not take any of this for granted.

This is news I’m very sad to make public: the cartoonist Elijah Brubaker, loved and admired by his readers and peers, has passed at age 50. At link, @comicsjournal.bsky.social has published a collection of tributes and remembrances to this great comics maker. www.tcj.com/elijah-bruba...

News of it never circulated here, but @elijahbrubaker.bsky.social died a few weeks back. I have a few words in this piece for the Comics Journal, reflecting on his work and mourning his loss.

Can’t rationally explain it, but CXC scares me.

UPDATE: Everything’s in the mail, finally. Back to normal schedule.

I think people just don't understand that Jeffries has hated DSA for a long long long time and this is like a nightmare scenario for him. It makes zero sense until you realize it's part of this personal dislike he has against DSA, he dislikes them more than any other Dem, that he won't budge from.

Studio + Domino inventory, packed orders

the way money works in art can't be taught, you have to see it up close. you have to see, over decades, rich ppl having personal crises that they compensate for buying art mindlessly, & that having real influence vs. artists themselves thinking about what their art is having basically no relevance.

DOMINO will be at Pictobeach today, Rockaway Beach amphitheater, 12-6, with some of the best books in the world at our table, B5-B6. We will have TONS more than what you see pictured here.

Wayne Boring

Just read KEY CHANGE and it's incredible. Lots of people attempt comedies about young people in their twenties getting annoyed by roommates and people at bars so you might think you hate the genre but actually you just hate bad comics, MacDiarmid provides the good version. Check it out

Some incredible books just added to the Domino shop: Miles MacDiarmid’s Key Change, one of the best self published books of the year AND experimental manga and out of print transgressive fiction from Salitters. Grab these incredible books and browse 500+ more 👇 dominobooks.org/store.html

a million things going on in the world rn, but does anyone know if there's been any progress on international shipping issue? is that just gonna get lost in the shuffle and people in other countries will just continue to not be able to send books to the USA?

Dorothy Iannone + Tezuka class today @ Parsons…

I'll never understand re: comics culture/publishing is perception of readers. When I show work like Dorothy Iannone, Anke Feuchtenberger or others to undergrads, sometimes ones who aren't even in comics programs, the work is always understood and often embraced, it's not beyond the pale.

Excerpt from a piece I'm writing about a cartoonist that will be published in @comicsjournal.bsky.social soon...

I’ll be at Short Fun Fest in Seattle this November. some of my drawings will be made into one of the gigantic banners that promote the fest…

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Doing a Miyazaki related exercise in my SVA Comics Storytelling Class, I ask students to look at 30 Miyazaki panels in sequence (showing 4 here) & make notes on every single thing they see, panel to panel, transcribing comic into text to show how much writing is done in the drawings themselves.

i think Doonesbury's reputation has suffered more in the last 20 years than any other comic, but for no specific reason other than people collectively losing interest in it independently over time...it's STILL being published.

the supermarket plays KLF if you go there at 1am

Dylan Williams, gone 14 years ago today. Miss him every day, as do so many other people he was close to, there was truly no one like him. You can say this about him: everyone who knew him was better in some way for having him in their lives. Domino is in many ways an extension of Dylan’s thinking.

This was a brilliant interview with Yvan Alagbé.

Full two hour interview with Yvan Alagbé now online! youtu.be/760GqH9H-ro?...

Yvan Alagbé