I’ve decided that over the next few months I’ll use this space to chip away at the work I’ve been meaning to do for a zine about Virginia Woolf (described in more detail last month, when I also did a bit on writing on this). So without further preamble, here are a few more excerpts […]
August
I’ve written a few times over the past several months about Virigina Woolf quotes that have been helpful to me. I’m no2 beginning some early work towards what I think will be a zine about what cartoonists can learn from Virginia Woolf’s process and thoughts about her own work. She was a micropublisher! She only […]
July
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 […]
Yearly 2019
I thought I’d talk a bit about the new comic I’ve published and which you can buy here. It’s over 100 pages and full color. This is the second issue of the annual series that I hope to publish forever. I wrote last year about the premise of this project. This year’s issue is similar […]
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 […]