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“So these football players were doing that Bubba Gump shrimp thing with dead...”
– reason one hundred million Mary HK Choi is awesome—this story. I’ve said before I adore her right? Yeah. She rocks.
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WatchKaren Green, Columbia University’s Graphic Novels Librarian is hosting Comic New York: A Symposium this weekend and I’ll be going. The Keynote is a conversation with Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson.
I’m only going to go to a few of these panels, because I have work that needs doing and I’ll feel like a slacker if I go to every single one of these panels tomorrow, but I...
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Introduction.
So, I’m going to finally start serializing my thesis. Currently titled: “All-Star Grant Morrison: Twenty-first Century Comics and Renaissance Philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.” I’m going to keep the excerpts short, because it is most likely pretty boring for most of my readers. Thanks for reading and please let me know what you think.
The field of Comics Studies...
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The Drawn Word #1 is out! →
It’s 137 pages for $1, downloadable through our good friends at Graphicly.
Edited by all around good guy Christopher Irving this new comics magazine features spotlights on Brian Wood, Bill Sienkiewicz, and I profile Kelly Sue DeConnick!
The book also features the talents of Reilly Brown, Bill Alger, and Jamal Igle. So, you’re getting an awful lot of great stuff for a dollar.
Thanks...
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“People say, “I want to have a baby.” You don’t have a baby. What you actually...”
– Tim, on his newborn baby Tatum, aka “Milkpod.”
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“People ask me if he’s better than Bob Lanier. Here’s what I know: He’s our Bob...”
– St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball Coach Mark Schmidt on Andrew Nicholson, from a story by New York Post sports columnist Mike Vaccaro, Bona Class of 1989. A magnificent read that talks about the scandal that rippled through the school at the end of my senior year there. It’s been hard to...
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“Metal Heart” by Cat Power.
This was...
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Descriptions of Connecticut in Colson Whitehead's...
Via ubiquitousamericana:
abhorrent Connecticut accursed Connecticut (x2) maddening Connecticut degenerate Connecticut Bad News Connecticut repugnant Connectcut Fucking Connecticut mephitic Connecticut loathsome Connecticut goddamned Connecticut
The primary thing I learned from Zone One is to avoid Connecticut during the zombie apocalypse.
Not just those fantastic descriptors, but I...
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Brian K. Vaughan SAGA signings in NYC next week. →
I go whole days without looking at Twitter lately, but sometimes I miss neat stuff like BKV doing a Reddit thing. Apparently he’ll be signing in NYC next week and if you can’t tell that I’m way excited for SAGA, you know I’ll be there. Here are the signings for the book next week:
And if you missed this before, Fiona will be signing SAGA #1 on March 14 at Another...
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WatchAndrew Stanton’s TED talk, “The clues to a great story” posted by thatisawesome:
Filmmaker Andrew Stanton (“Toy Story,” “WALL-E”) shares what he knows about storytelling — starting at the end and working back to the beginning. (Contains graphic language …)
This is so fantastic I welled up towards the end. Y’all are seeing John Carter this weekend right? You...
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Bum.
A derelict, dressed to the tee in the latest homeless fashions (filthy trench coat, Marty McFly vest, semen stained pants), steps onto the Flatbush bound 2 train and bellows at everyone in the car:
BUM: Everybody get out of my living room!*
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“As I say at the front of the book, I couldn’t have done what I do in Hand...”
– Charles Hatfield, in yet another excellent Sunday Interview with Tom Spurgeon, on his process for his first book, Alternative Comics and his coursework for his PhD in comics studies.
What I find incredibly helpful (and there is quite a bit here) is Hatfield’s background is similar to the...
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“Basically it’s all about showing up for opportunities and rolling with the...”
– Gerard Jones, author of the excellent comic book history book Men of Tomorrow, on book publicity.
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WatchMy friend Amy Witting’s new webseries is up. It’s called Group and it is a “a twelve episode web series about a bunch of New Yorkers who land themselves in group therapy. They get there because of some horrible habit, some fatal flaw, some twist of fate.”
Help them finish the rest of the series.
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, quoted by Ned Hepburn.
I feel like this is the sort of thing that I just need to have as a reminder, because I often slide into trying “to find” these kinds of things and then immediately I realize I create my own motivation and love of something. I try to... 