Like many artists, I worry about how much work I’m making now and how much work I might make in the future as my life changes in ways I cannot predict. Not long ago I came upon an idea that helps me see this worry from a different perspective. Like many good ideas, it is […]
July
Comix School #10-12, Kevin Huizenga On Doing Nothing, Roman Muradov The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion — A lot of sketching this month. Some pages are under the cut:
June
Reader’s Block, David Markson (reread) Georgia O’Keefe: Art and Letters, ed. Jack Cowart and Juan Hamilton But Is It Comic Aht #1, ed. Austin English — I have three living grandparents, all of whom recently gave away many of their belongings. The polite way to describe this, I think, is “downsizing.” Another way to describe […]
May
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (reread) – I’d forgotten the extent to which this is just a collection of short observations, many just a paragraph or two, with no explicit narrative momentum for the first third or half of the book. It works in spite of that due to 1. a logical and emotionally compelling structure 2. […]
April
Good Morning Midnight, Jean Rhys Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy Vol. 4, Roy Crane —
March
Frigobox 10, ed. Thierry Van Hasselt, Vincent Fortemps, Denis and Olivier Deprez Minor Leagues #1-5, Simon Moreton Everywhere Antennas, Julie Delporte Disquiet, Noah Van Sciver Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine l’Engle —
February
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie You & A Bike & A Road, Eleanor Davis Comics School #8, Kevin Huizenga Comics School #9, Kevin Huizenga Now #2, ed. Eric Reynolds — In a few days, I’ll be sending out the first edition of my newsletter. You can sign up here. I’m struggling a bit on what to write […]
January
For now, my plan is to continue writing these monthly updates and then also produce my bimonthly email newsletter which will be more in-depth. You can pay a small fee to subscribe to the newsletter or pay nothing to subscribe to it. Both options are fine with me. I’m so grateful to those who have […]
December
Hi. Welcome to the little website I made over the last few weeks. I decided to do this after some time of thinking about social media (where for now I’ll just be reading, not posting) and about how I want to spend my creative time. Everything of note should be housed here, from the content […]
October-November
Here’s a short comic. Here’s another one. – A Universal History of Iniquity, Jorge Luis Borges Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges Artificies, Jorge Luis Borges The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner Cometbus 58, Aaron Cometbus Comix School 6, Kevin Huizenga Comix School 7, Kevin Huizenga Angel of a Rope, Adam Buttrick Now 1, […]