A quick summary, for you and for myself, of what I’ve been up to this year. Like everyone, I’ve been reminded by recent events of the unpredictability and unreliability of social media sites. I’ll still be using Instagram occasionally and I’m toying with revisiting Tumblr too. Otherwise, you can find me here and on the […]
Clearly the solution to our collective woes is another podcast about comic books
Jake Grubman, proprietor of the excellent online shop All the Old Poisons, and I started a podcast. It’s called Off Register. The first episode is an interview with Madeleine Jubilee Saito, because of course when you start a podcast you begin by interviewing a friend. Get your feet wet. Ease in slowly. This episode is […]
Towards a unifying theory of repetition in comics
A tongue-in-cheek title for a serious idea: that by thinking carefully about comics through the lens of repetition we can get to some interesting places. The following are some initial notes that I hope to further develop in the future. REPETITION IN COMICS, GENERALLY Since storytelling comes out of an oral tradition, repetition is embedded […]
An Interview with Fabrice Neaud: Part Two of Three
I’m happy–and relieved!–to have finished translating another part of this long Fabrice Neaud interview. There’s a strong focus here on Neaud’s feelings around depictions of other people in his work, an issue that attracted significant criticism following the publication of Journal 3 and which even has legal implications. These thorny issues led, for example, to […]
Ghosts
Hi. I’ve spent nearly a year revising Ghosts, a story that originally appeared in Yearly 2018 and 2019, into a single, cohesive work. After some consideration I’ve decided to serialize this new version of Ghosts online. You can read the first chapter now, and I’ll post the remaining six chapters on a biweekly schedule. You […]
An Interview with Fabrice Neaud: Part One of Three
Following my translation of a Dominique Goblet interview a few months ago, I decided to take on a bigger task: a massive, three part interview with Fabrice Neaud by Sébastien Solielle, originally published on his comprehensive site about Neaud’s work. This is just the first part, and I hope to get to other two parts […]
The Reality of Fiction: An Interview with Dominique Goblet
I wanted to translate this interview because it occurred at an interesting time in Goblet’s career, around the time that her book Souvenir d’une journée parfaite [Memory of a Perfect Day] was first published. Faire semblant c’est mentir [Pretending Is Lying], her most prominent book certainly in English and arguably in French also, is years […]
Some Notes on IngramSpark
I published two books earlier this year through IngramSpark, a print-on-demand service associated with the book distributor Ingram, and I’m now getting ready to publish a third one. There are plenty of resources out there about POD generally and IngramSpark specifically, but I haven’t found anything that goes into detail on topics that are important […]
Recent News
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here so I thought I’d take some time to talk about what I’ve been up to lately. A new issue of Yearly 2021 is out, the second of three for this year. It continues the Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe stories from last issue. I’ve heard some […]
Some New Comics
After a few years of maintaining a regular schedule, I have more recently been negligent about posting here. I’ve been a bit more active on Instagram, because I can mindlessly share a page of whatever I’m working on – and I have been working a lot! So I’m posting now because I have some new […]