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
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As pictured above, I’ve been drawing in blue pencil and then inking for the past few weeks. I used to cycle through drawing materials and approaches because I thought I would find the one process that was perfect for me, and now I cycle through materials and approaches because it makes each new project an act of discovery. It’s reinventing the wheel, but what a pleasure to engage in that process of invention. The risk is that by changing superficial visual elements of my work, I’m avoiding the harder work of changing deeper and more foundational elements. I try to avoid this trap.
What else? I sent a third and final Gertrude Stein book to print this month. It’s called Things As They Were. I hope to have it available in the spring. Art about making art is often bad, but it’s also a genre (subject?) that I enjoy, so the book is in part my attempt to do something interesting in that area.