Jake Grubman, proprietor of the excellent online shop All the Old Poisons, and I started a podcast. It’s called Off Register. The first episode is an interview with Madeleine Jubilee Saito, because of course when you start a podcast you begin by interviewing a friend. Get your feet wet. Ease in slowly. This episode is […]
Towards a unifying theory of repetition in comics
A tongue-in-cheek title for a serious idea: that by thinking carefully about comics through the lens of repetition we can get to some interesting places. The following are some initial notes that I hope to further develop in the future. REPETITION IN COMICS, GENERALLY Since storytelling comes out of an oral tradition, repetition is embedded […]
An Interview with Fabrice Neaud: Part Two of Three
I’m happy–and relieved!–to have finished translating another part of this long Fabrice Neaud interview. There’s a strong focus here on Neaud’s feelings around depictions of other people in his work, an issue that attracted significant criticism following the publication of Journal 3 and which even has legal implications. These thorny issues led, for example, to […]
Ghosts
Hi. I’ve spent nearly a year revising Ghosts, a story that originally appeared in Yearly 2018 and 2019, into a single, cohesive work. After some consideration I’ve decided to serialize this new version of Ghosts online. You can read the first chapter now, and I’ll post the remaining six chapters on a biweekly schedule. You […]
An Interview with Fabrice Neaud: Part One of Three
Following my translation of a Dominique Goblet interview a few months ago, I decided to take on a bigger task: a massive, three part interview with Fabrice Neaud by Sébastien Solielle, originally published on his comprehensive site about Neaud’s work. This is just the first part, and I hope to get to other two parts […]
The Reality of Fiction: An Interview with Dominique Goblet
I wanted to translate this interview because it occurred at an interesting time in Goblet’s career, around the time that her book Souvenir d’une journée parfaite [Memory of a Perfect Day] was first published. Faire semblant c’est mentir [Pretending Is Lying], her most prominent book certainly in English and arguably in French also, is years […]
Some Notes on IngramSpark
I published two books earlier this year through IngramSpark, a print-on-demand service associated with the book distributor Ingram, and I’m now getting ready to publish a third one. There are plenty of resources out there about POD generally and IngramSpark specifically, but I haven’t found anything that goes into detail on topics that are important […]
Recent News
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here so I thought I’d take some time to talk about what I’ve been up to lately. A new issue of Yearly 2021 is out, the second of three for this year. It continues the Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe stories from last issue. I’ve heard some […]
Some New Comics
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 […]
2020
I was taken, from the first time I saw it, with the small list of “Good Cartoonists Gone” that appears in Sammy Harkham’s Crickets #3. A discussion on Comics Comics soon after that issue’s publication provides an even longer list of cartoonists who have moved on to other pursuits, or in rare cases vanished entirely. […]