Flipped thru this in the comic shop and was in awe. Brought it home and read it on the kitchen counter with my partner, standing the whole time. It’s something that demands your attention immediately.

Reading a couple Bukowski poems: Wow what a vibe! Reading a whole book’s worth: Man just shut the fuck up already!

Working on a porn comic called “Conscientious” about a conscientious objector and a war widow and the conversations and sex that they have. Here are the first three pages!

images you can feel

Writing a little personal essay about male desirability and fashion and masculinity and fascism. Shopping for a suit has caused an avalanche of thoughts.

Boys this is what peak male performance looks like

Orson

one of the best currently doing it

Working on a porn comic called “Conscientious” about a conscientious objector and a war widow and the conversations and sex that they have. Here are the first three pages!

Movie posters used to just tell you that Paul Newman was in this and that was enough

I don't know why I read this today, I don't know why I have complex thoughts and feelings about it...

Got a coffee (ran out at home) and the cafe was full so I was at a standing table and one of the people who is on permanent ban from the library for threatening to beat a staff member up was there so I did not stay after finishing my drink.

clarity

Oh wow…

This movie fucking rocks so fucking hard holy shit I am drunk but I am sure this is a widely held opinion

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

David Petersen's Mouse Guard was one of those formative books I read as a kid that pushed what I thought about comics and how you can do so much with so few words and build such a fun and clever world. Rodriguez drawing the new Mouse Guard comic is a treat! Really loving this one.

Keep trying to write a happy pride post to show that I appreciate all my queer friends and peers and readers but nothing is sounding nice enough. You all are great. Sending lots of love out to you guys.

Just so good!

These comics are sooo good

Not to reopen closed discourse but: Claremont’s X-Men is not too wordy at all. Comic fans just hate reading. These comics have TONS going on all at once and it’s all rewarding to read and pay attention to. Being an X-Men fan in the 80s must have felt so special. These are great comics!

been editing a zine all day and I am tired, taking a break to draw boobs

mouth watering bits of writing tbh

Sorry but you should definitely romanticize going to a bar alone and get a little drunk and romanticize your night

Last day to get your copy!

I have a zine coming out next month! Will be available to the general public, not just subscribers! (they get a copy automatically)

Tomorrow is the last day to get a copy of this zine! Just finished the edits. It is looking pretty good...

I am weak for this sorry

On the other hand, someone like King constantly showing his ass and being a sniveling little bitch baby in the form of Batman comics is one of the most pathetic things to read. The Elmer Fudd one was entertaining, though it should have come in a cereal box.

Miller is interesting because he can only really express himself in the form of genre comics. Deeply personal beliefs and ideas filtered thru entertaining nonsense to create something incredibly revealing. He’s always showing his ass and that’s the charm.

Also picked this up. A neat early attempt at bringing European comics over but not a really good comic at all. Nice drawing/painting tho

Found this for cover price at one of the local shops (they never clean their graphic novel section)

“Across these palms are two deep scars. My stigmata. They remind me how I can never go back and must be dedicated to violence from now on. Having earned them by strangling my first enemy with barbed wire.”

Something about the slightly corny but entirely true earnest dialogue and message of Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 always moves me. It’s hard to explain how well it all captures growing up and finding agency and freedom.

Completed version of this illustration is up on pay-tree-on now (along with the context in which it will be printed)

Continuing my free will streak.

I created a game

Learning deescalation tactics like you wouldn’t believe at my job at the public library.

It’s so crazy that after Black Kiss and American Flagg Chaykin didn’t make anything until Fraction helped him with this. And he hasn’t been heard from since. Legendary run of three comics!

Completed version of this illustration is up on pay-tree-on now (along with the context in which it will be printed)

Steinlen

Some illustrations from the French magazine Gil Blas:

I voted in the Eisners!

I’ll post the full version, with the story text, on pay-tree-on once it is done!

Have never needed a model kit more…

clarity

Here is the finished version of that sketch! (sorry for the repost, I had some very small changed to make)

New blog post is up l!nk in b!o

Just a reminder: I publish a zine of sketches, drawings, comics, and writing every month. You can have one mailed to you for the price of a large coffee. Even if you don't live in the USA!