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 […]
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September
Ley Lines: Recapitulation, L Nichols Summer Travel Zine 2018, Cathy G. Johnson Four Years Part One, Kevin Czap Rumbling Chapter 1-2, Kevin Huizenga An Untamed State, Roxane Gay An Abundance of Katherines, John Green Lethal White, Robert Galbraith — This post is late, because I’ve been deep into new projects, trying to pump out pages every day. But […]
August
Hold Still, Sally Mann Difficult Women, Roxane Gay Monograph, Chris Ware The Interview, Manuel Fiore Blackbird Days, Manuel Fiore (I really didn’t like this one. 80% of the stories in here didn’t merit being reprinted. It felt like the criteria for including work was “we need enough pages to make a book.”) Minor Leagues 6, Simon Moreton (Loved […]
Yearly 2018
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 […]