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John Darnielle’s Master of Reality (33 1/3 series)
I recently wrote a combination review of Dan Clowes’ Caricature (10 years late), Osamu Tezuka’s Apollo’s Song and John Darnielle’s Master of Reality. Look for it in Picturebox’s COMICS COMICS next...
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Giant Kirby images posted on Flickr
Being so inspired by this stream of “retronomoapeya” (above), I posted my first photostream to flickr, a batch of giant JAck Kirby croppings I made a while back:...
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To all my friends searching for happiness
To all my friends searching for happiness, success in love, career, life, listen to Kiki: Love is a battlefield. Be arrogant, rather than self-denigrating. Be furious and be disciplined. Take solace in...
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KGB Comix Reading
Well, this year’s Post-Thanksgiving KGB Reading was a giant success, standing room only, IF THAT. We turned people away, the readers were mere inches from the audience. Here’s two photos, of Sarah...
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Best movies seen and best books read in 2008
Best movies seen and best books read in 2008 Having a terrible memory, I enlisted my MacBook and Microsoft MS Excel in a partnership to assist me in recording all the media I explored in 2008. So MY...
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Cartooning Like You Mean It
In 2009, I am dedicating this blog to “Cartooning Like You Mean It.” It is about the art of cartooning as a method of self-expression, a way to figure yourself out and untie your own knots (Leonard...
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Navigating a Linefield
The Linefield is a word I have been looking for for 20 years. I’m using it partially to describe the visual mark making and image making that gives much of a comix’s feeling to the reader. It’s not...
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Drama vs. Poetry Part 2
Drama vs. Poetry Part 2 (This post seems to have been written and unposted. It dovetails well with my recent post about The Linefield, so I’m posting it now. I recently saw The Day I Became A Woman, an...
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Quotes from John Gardner’s Art of Fiction
Rereading John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction as I create “Cartooning Like You Mean It.” Realizing now that this was one of the main influences in my designs to write the thing: theory, craft and...
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Images that Sing; Kiki and Herb Again
There is this moment I think about all the time from The Young Ones. The Young Ones was an ensemble comedy TV show from the early 1980s on BBC about 4 horrible college students living together in...
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