Tag: Comics
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No Part is Saved
Like its predecessor, this post was originally written in September 2007 for a blog that no longer exists. I’m republishing it here in preparation for a post on The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell. ‘Crash, roar, smash, plunge. The artist’s journey finishes with him washed ashore on the desert island of his own mental…
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Comic Book Men
The third in a series of posts about Six Feet Under Previously: I would be surprised if ‘Grinding the Corn’ (S4E9) was anyone’s favourite Six Feet Under episode. Claire’s adventures in homosexuality take a sharp turn into calamity here, in a way that feels driven more by the show’s weirdness about bisexuality than anything else.…
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Future Crimes #2
I put the second issue of my Future Crimes anthology up for sale yesterday. Unlike the first issue, which was mostly a way for me to refresh and release unpublished work, this issue is all about collaboration. The first and longest piece in the book is Uncle Frank, which was drawn by my friend Shaky…
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There Are Other Alphabets – on the fall of Roe and dirt bikes
Browsing twitter the other day, I found myself getting annoyed at someone who asked for an explanation of a comic strip Eleanor Davis had shared. Drawn for the New York Times, the strip itself covers a journey to and from a protest for abortion rights that had been undertaken in the company of a small…
Blue Box // Recorder 