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 work available and wanted to tell you a bit about it.
First, my series Yearly will be split into three issues this year, in order to serialize new comics about Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe. Plus they’ll have some short stories and other ephemera. Yearly 2021: Summer is the first issue and comes out in June. Or you can get the three issue subscription with an extra process zine!
Second, WAYS TO SURVIVE IN THE WILDERNESS is a book length comic about climate change, community, fear, and hope. It includes some old material and some new material, woven together into a single story. If you’ve never read my comics before, I think this might be the one to try. The reaction from early readers has been really gratifying.
Third, LETTERS I’LL SEND TOMORROW is a short story collection with some old material from minis with tiny print runs and some new material. It’s a mix of narrative and poetry that aims to feel intimate and simple.
Another recent comic, which I didn’t post about at the time, is Bloom #4 – a short pamphlet comic dug out of a mysterious back issue bin.
What else has been going on in the past several months? Let’s see…
I’ve published a few pieces with The Comics Journal over the past several months: an interview with Austin English about his comics and his work as a distributor; an interview with my good friend Madeleine Jubilee Saito; and an essay about my reading of Virginia Woolf’s diary and the lessons it might contain for cartoonists.
I’d also like to get back to posting a monthly reading list here. For now, I’ll mention off the top of my head what I’ve recently enjoyed. The Ley Lines series continues to be an inspiration due to the strength of the individual comics as well as the format which, while rigid in some ways, reveals itself to be incredibly flexible in the hands of the right cartoonists. I’ve been rereading Italo Calvino, who continues to be one of my very favorite authors for so many reasons. L Nichols has been moving from strength to strength in a series of incredibly personal online comics that I hope appear in print one day. Tom Herpich put out a new comic, which is more a series of poems and illustrations but which I still loved.