I recently read Kramers Ergot 10, Sundays with Walt and Skeezix, and Yummy Fur #1. I had a series of overlapping thoughts about these comics that I’ll try to articulate here. I suppose it started with Rick Altergott and Johnny Ryan. I found both of their strips in Kramers 10 utterly unappealing and uninteresting. Kim […]
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June
I don’t have much news this month, so maybe I’ll just share that the new issue of Yearly is now available for sale. I’ll get around to ‘promoting’ it eventually but right now I’m too focused on new projects. Haha. For better or worse, sharing my work widely becomes less and less interesting to me. […]
May
At the beginning of this month, I thought I had a good idea. I thought I’d developed a structure for a new project that was interesting, that provided a clear through-line while also allowing me to experiment. I was excited. So I started drawing. I hadn’t been drawing regularly for a while and I was […]
April
This Is Not a Novel, David Markson (reread) – Reread because a collection of Markson’s final three novel was finally issued — he expressed hope this would happen in an interview, I believe — although I don’t understand why Reader’s Block was excluded. Maybe a rights issue or something? Vanishing Point, David Markson (reread) – […]
March
I finished a big project this month, and launched myself into a new strip without taking the time to figure out what’s next. Now I’m working backwards, trying to take time to figure out how I want to approach my next project, how to build on what I’ve done while also trying something new. I’m […]
February
I started a new comic tonight. I only worked on it for about an hour, but I felt a thrill at the imagined possibilities of this new project. I imagined pages that I might draw and directions that I might take. I mentioned Virginia Woolf in my last monthly post, but I guess I have […]
January
This post is very late! I was busy first with editing a long story (now almost done, you’ll see it in Yearly 2019) and then with several weeks of unexpected travel. So now I’m looking forward to getting back into my normal routine, a part of which is making these posts on time. Here are […]
December
I’m switching the order of these posts, putting the news up top and my reading list down below. That probably makes more sense, especially for a month like this when I did a lot of reading. I read several comics I had been putting off because I was asked to contribute to the Best of […]
November
Little Leagues #1, Simon Moreton Caryatid, Daryl Seitchik Pretending is Lying, Dominique Goblet Dyaa, Yvan Alagbe Blammo #10, Noah Van Sciver Some Trick, Helen DeWitt Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, ed. Barbara Haskell Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe [the 1977 book that includes several long commentaries from O’Keeffe about her work] My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and […]
October
Why Art, Eleanor Davis Fielder #1, Kevin Huizenga Or Else #3, Kevin Huizenga What The Body Is For, Madeleine Witt It’s Ok That It’s Not Ok Chapter 1, Christina Tran Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life, Roxana Robinson Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern, Wanda Corn Alfred Stieglitz: A Legacy of Light, Katherine Hoffman — I want to say a […]