Recently I’ve been culling the blogs I look at regularly, and adding some new ones. Refining my daily internet reading…
New Bill Watterson Interview
There’s a brief interview with Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson in The Cleveland Plain Dealer. It’s the first he’s…
Writing/Drawing – what’s the difference?
As much as I hate to think of comics as a bifurcated process, in practice, the truth is that it…
Charles Burns’s Hubris
Anyone who has even looked at a page or two of Black Hole understands that if someone has earned the…
5 Books Published in 2009 that Wrecked My Brain a Little
Easter Rabbit, Joseph Young. This is an IMPORTANT book. Some reviewer predicted early in Richard Brautigan’s career that he was…
Respect for Reprints
Literary journals are a hydra-headed monster offering more and more opportunities to publish with each tick of the clock (and…
Hope everyone’s having a good one
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Joyelle McSweeney’s vision of poetry’s “future”
Joyelle doesn’t see a future for poetry. She sees a NOW. The end is not imminent; it is connected to…
What the hell’s a GRAPHIC NOVEL? I read COMICS.
Comic creator Will Eisner’s 1985 analysis of his own medium, Comics & Sequential Art, was an important step in freeing…
The Compulsion to Collect makes “Novels”!
Books are difficult to write. Long, uninterrupted projects are daunting to my hyper-mediated constitution. To push forward I always need…