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I am averse to conversations with strangers. Randos on other sites ruined that for me a long time ago. I'm here to share the work and shoot the shit with friends and/or colleagues. The locking of my comments is a big ol Hint Hint.

Good Man

some 2021 stuff

Milton Nascimento's iconic Maria Maria. I like to think of it as South America's This Woman's Work, although to me it seems more metaphorical than personal. youtu.be/7tbNG0KqTUA

from here, respectively

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studying Carlos Gimenez

Meanwhile, in New York: I was on the subway yesterday, in one of those cars where an entire side is dedicated to a single ad campaign. They were all for Friend and every single one was either ripped up or torn out entirely. I've never seen that in my life.

Remember, artists: when people say, “I’d buy a print of this,” they don’t mean it. That sentence itself is just a weird compliment that rarely converts to an actual print sale. It’s like if someone ate a very good hot dog and then said, “I could eat 10,000 of these right now.”

Vyvanse recall lot numbers

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You messed me up, man.

John Tetlow is indirectly responsible for Ragazza Magna's short shorts.

close ups and a bonus Mega Bird

This fat boy pencil has saved my life.

Did you know I round up sketches in three month chunks to show on my blog in a feature called The Sketch Garden? July / August / September's post even features a preview of the comic I'm working on! www.alejandrobruzzese.com/art-sorcery/...

My favorite part to draw is the hands.

*extremely 90s teenage Alejandro voice* Pearl Jam's Nothingman is still good youtu.be/xiNpezXV3ck

I discovered Air Supply's Making Love Out of Nothing At All the other day and immediately knew it was a Jim Steinman joint. What an icon. youtu.be/JMKi9qVrGWM

I'm spending the afternoon looking through friends & colleagues' websites. The only good parts of the internet. There's an incomplete list at the bottom of this page. bruzzeseonline.neocities.org

Guess who got a makeover? ✦ alejandrobruzzese.com ✦

Reminder to everyone hiring an artist: If you need vector files delivered, that needs to be established up-front, before work starts. I cannot give you vector files because I do not work with vectors.

New York City! LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER is on shelves at these fine independent bookstores: –Community Bookstore, Park Slope –Terrace Books, Windsor Terrace –Lofty Pigeon Books, Kensington –Kew & Willow, Kew Gardens And more shops coming soon. Go check them out!

2pg comic from 2010 ~

I think a lot of commentators didn't appreciate how many immigrant parents in NYC looked at Zohran and saw the possibilities for their children For all of its fundamental flaws, to many, he is their American Dream

over-heating, our / district bogeyman insists / that magma roads rule

Does this mean the Gristedes man is leaving and now I own Gristedes and now Gristedes is gonna sell music and movies old comics and it's gonna be good now?

i'm still seeing people say things like "they don't intend to win elections", and, like, look at last night's results. those are not outcomes you can reject through slim efforts at trickery, those are overwhelming defeats that can't be ignored. stop letting your doom brain do their work.

It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)

I love to see the very public failure of money to shape society. What a humiliating list to be on. Of special note is the Tisch family's wasted efforts. As in Jessica Tisch, our police commissioner.

i think zohran’s (amazing) canvassers should now use their energy doorknocking the people who said they’d leave new york city if he won just to make sure they follow through

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

In all earnestness though, I can't really articulate how tonight feels, as an immigrant. Very very very good, maybe.

Never underestimate the simple of power of saying in unison, "No, fuck you."

Also, Cuomo is a double loser now. How does it feel to be humiliated by one of the world's most iconic cities twice, you sack of shit? Go eat a bag of dicks in the Hamptons and then walk into the Atlantic, you fuckin gropey raisin.

Does this mean the Gristedes man is leaving and now I own Gristedes and now Gristedes is gonna sell music and movies old comics and it's gonna be good now?

START SPREADIN THE NEWS MOTHERFUCKER

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

Artists. Make your own website. Or else.

For all of my adult life New York has felt like little more than an expanding playground for the rich. We forget that for most of its existence it wasn't that. It's no coincidence that the city that birthed art mediums, music genres, and icons hasn't really done any of that in the past ~25 years.

One last time: Every time I post it he goes up five more points.

A lil weekly website-printing fax service, just in time for coffee. Who's in?

I miss the heady days when every artist I followed had a website. I'd spend Saturday morning going through each one in my bookmarks to see if they got new stuff posted. It's checking the trades!

I support this threat

Panels from Xenia, a short I did for an upcoming issue of Métal Hurlant.

Who’s this new dude hanging with Voron? What are they hooked up to? Is Voron’s face like that cos his diet sucks? Fortress 4 has the answers! Well, mostly. FOC for Fortress 4 is a week off! Go bug your LCS. But nicely. Buy them a cookie or something. Tell them me and @strangers.bsky.social sent you.

Guess who got a makeover? ✦ alejandrobruzzese.com ✦