Top Three of February

1. Being Elmo
   • Awesome biography of Kevin Clash, puppeteer, that also serves as a decent history of the Muppets as seen through his eyes. The parts where he walks someone through a few puppeteering tips are magical. Watch this if you’re a cartoonist or even if you’re not.
2. Joost Swarte — Is That All There Is?
   • I’ve been waiting for this book essentially since about 2000, after I read Swarte’s story in Little Lit, and then started seeing his illustrations in the New Yorker. It was impossible to find any collections of his work, and definitely not any in translation. Here it is finally.
3. Nirvana — “Milk It”
   • Not new to me of course, just bubbling up again. In Utero was Nirvana’s best album by far. This song rules.

Mar 1 2012

New Comics

I have two new comics out this month.

The first is Papercutter #15, for which I did the cover and a 17-page story, entitled “The Most Gripping Mind-Exploding Triumphantly Electric of Our Time.” It’s actually two stories in one, one science fiction, one mythological, nested one inside the other. Published by Tugboat Press and available from Buy Olympia.

I also have a one-page story about my dog in the new book “The Comic Book Guide to the Mission.” That’s available from Skoda Man Press or on Amazon.

Both of these were lots of fun to work on. I hope you like them too.

Mar 24 2011

Top 5 for December and January

1. Kanye West—My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. The Richard McGuire portion of Fears of the Dark
3. Lee Hazlewood—Poet, Fool or Bum/Back on the Street Again
4. and 5. Joe Abercrombie—The First Law Trilogy and The Heroes

Feb 6 2011