November 08, 2012
IN THE NEWS :: BCGF, TMSIDK, ETC
This Saturday I’ll be at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, in scenic, snowy Brooklyn New York. I’m not listed on the exhibitor list, but I’ll be set up at table D10 with Domitille Collardey, with a smaller, more compact version of my regular super-table swamp-daddy setup…
October 22, 2012
THE THREE STEADMANS
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of requests to draw iconic celebrities for the twenty dollar sketches I do. I’m leery of getting trapped into one thing, especially drawing things I don’t own or can’t do whatever I like with, but drawing celebrities, especially those with interesting faces, is great cartooning practice…
October 21, 2012
NO HOMOSEXUALS
Today I was at a church-sponsored paintball field with most of my family, and the man running things pointed out in no uncertain terms during his safety/rules talk: "No homosexuals," and I didn’t say anything. Not a peep.
September 23, 2012
SOME THOUGHTS ON RICHARD THOMPSON
I feel very, very conflicted about writing about Richard Thompson, whose strip Cul de Sac ends today. Richard has been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for the last few years, and can’t keep up with the demands of a daily strip, even with help. I love Richard, both his body of work and him as a person…
September 21, 2012
SOME THOUGHTS ON SPX AND CONVENTIONEERING
Last weekend I exhibited at the Small Press Expo, one of the premier independent comics shows in North America. Just to give you some background. I was set up with Koyama Press, debuting my new book Diary Comics 4, as well as Small Drawings. Here’s a banner ad I did for the show, part of a series of 4 by Koyama artists, the others by Michael Deforge, John Martz, and Julia Wertz.
September 06, 2012
REVIEW :: Barack Hussein Obama
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA is a challenging and idiosyncratic book that describes its subject from a great, absurd, and comic distance. It’s closer to the kind of associative resonance of poetry than what you would expect of a book called BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, released just weeks before [the real] Obama’s attempt at a second term in office. It has very little to do with actual reality, and weirdly seems more real than it has any right to be.
July 12, 2012
HIS CHUCK CLOSE PROBLEM
I’m not an intellectual properties or copyright lawyer. I’m not well-versed in the dogma of appropriation versus reinterpretation vs derivation vs plagiarization. It all seems fairly subjective though, doesn’t it? I’d say for me that it’s something that comes down to value — does the philosophical blur of "is this right?" add a certain crackle to things?
June 27, 2012
HEROESCON 2012 :: The Power, The Glory, The Jaime
SO last weekend I was a guest of Heroes Convention 2012, widely described as the best mainstream comics show anywhere. I think a lot of people might stipulate that it’s the best regional show, and that’s fair. But for my money there’s nothing I want from a mainstream comics convention that Heroes doesn’t provide, short of actually being an indie comics convention. Oh and while we’re at it, featuring all my friends as guests, and being renamed "DharbinCon."
June 05, 2012
RECENT PODCASTS OF DELIGHT
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and every few months I run dry, having listened to all the episodes I have access to, or just getting bored with what I’ve been listening to. I generally prefer longer podcasts, just because my brain needs some depth to really get going —
May 23, 2012
IN DEFENSE/OFFENSE OF/TO SCOTT KURTZ
So the other day Scott Kurtz posted an essay about why it’s wrong for people to think Jack Kirby should receive more credit for The Avengers, and his estate receive some remuneration from the great success of the film adaptation. Go read that post really quick, it’s not very long.
Then the next day…