March 2012
1 post
Top Three of February
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.
Joost Swarte — Is That All There Is?
I’ve been waiting for this book essentially since about 2000, after I read...
November 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
1 tag
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...
February 2011
1 post
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
December 2010
1 post
1 tag
Top Five for November
WireTap
Love and Radio
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Forming by Jesse Moynihan
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
May 2010
1 post
“As soon as the fight started, Antonio Inoki laid himself down and threw an...”
– Muhammad Ali vs. Antonio Inoki June 26, 1976
March 2010
1 post
November 2009
2 posts
July 2009
5 posts
Interview: Minty Lewis
vegansaurus:
Melanie “Minty” Lewis’ wonderful new book, P.S. Comics, is a collection of her minicomics to date. Minty’s tales of “Fruit Pals” and “Yorkie Roommates” are cute but heartbreaking accounts of everyday melodrama, which earned her an Ignatz award in 2007. She also recently created the most freaking cutest ever iGoogle theme, which you should all install immediately. Minty lives in...
Ezra Klein on limiting meat consumption (& being... →
meganallison:
vegansaurus:
As we mentioned in last week’s link-o-rama, we love us some Ezra Klein. It is so important for “thinkers” to understand the impact that meat (and dairy and eggs) have on the health of our planet and ourselves and to TALK ABOUT IT. I love this article for so many reasons, from him acknowledging that veganism is the best thing you can do to the calling out of the...
Bill Callahan — “The Breeze/My Baby...
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Top Five for June
Bill Callahan show
Low Moon by Jason
True Blood
Jens Lekman show
Moon
June 2009
2 posts
“Although the sole film made from Salinger’s work, My Foolish Heart, based...”
– New Terminator Movie Brings J.D. Salinger Out Of Hiding
YACHT - Psychic City
My prediction is that...
April 2009
2 posts
“People who put songs in movies like to think of a song as a sphere that you can...”
– Will Oldham
March 2009
1 post
February 2009
6 posts
“Returning to our hushed whispers I asked Sean, “Should we go talk to him...”
– http://sesquipedalis.blogspot.com/2009/02/finally-use-for-twitter.html
“Dear Diary,
I have to write quietly. I think my beard has been bugged. Wait....”
– Joaquin Phoenix’s Crazy Diary | Cracked.com
Palace Music — “Valentine’s Day”
Where Can I Get One?
You can sometimes find professionally made flamethrowers being sold by private buyers online, some for as little as $300. Also, if you’re unsure on how to use your new device, but you want the source of your advice to be batshit insane, you could pick up Ragnar Benson’s delightful read, Breath Of The Dragon: Homebuilt Flamethrowers, which we can only hope comes with a cellphone with...
January 2009
4 posts
I'm Glappy to Present...
See also: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Portmanteaus
So many good ones!
youtalkfunny:
…my new shtick!
Exhibit A: On a TV show this girl was talking about a boy at her school and she called him a “geep.” Her mom like, what’s a geep? “A geek who’s kind of creepy.” Awesome!
Exhibit B: Another person on TV said she was “smad” as in sad and mad… Awesome!
My friend Frake Vogl coined...
December 2008
4 posts
“I see Madden-Connor as an artist who perhaps needs to pare his line down even...”
– High-Low: Miscellaneous Mini-Comic Round-Up
Op-Ed Columnist - Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’? -... →
mrpenguino:
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s great column in yesterday’s paper in which he writes about Prop 2 and the Obama administration’s potential to change USDA.
Hope! Change! Etc!
Domotic - “Last Christmas”
November 2008
4 posts
Ochre Ellipse #2 is the proud recipient of Isotope Comics’ annual minicomics award. Much thanks to James Sime and everyone at Isotope!
October 2008
15 posts
“Gore won, Gore was elected president, and it was taken away from him by...”
– Paul Auster
“Legend has it that she asks passersby if they think she’s pretty....”
– Mangobot: Five Japanese Monsters I Encountered Before I Turned 20
HILARY: WTF you guys. Why am I playing the cleric?
MCCAIN: Hilary, we've been over this.
HILARY: No, dude. I am so sick of being the girlfriend healer. Seriously, I can't even use a sword. Fuck this noise.
KUCINICH: IM A BARD
OBAMA: That's nice.
KUCINICH: MY FAMILIAR IS A PURPLE SNOW LEOPARD
MCCAIN: Oh, Jesus. Here we go.
KUCINICH: DID I MENTION MY WIFE IS A TOTALLY BANGIN DRYAD WITH 20 CHARISMA
HILARY: C'mon you guys, I've been playing this shit since Gygax was in eighth grade. Why can't I be the party leader with the magic sword for once?
MCCAIN: Because no one wants to see you in a bronze bra.
OBAMA: Oh dude, BURRRRRNNNN.
(via: http://somehedgehog.livejournal.com/245807.html)
“I agree that the mini is a bit dense with inventive ideas I would have preferred...”
– Myriad Issues: Ochre Ellipse #2 et al
“Uncanny X-Men is about black people and gays who are straight and white, but...”
– International Society of Supervillains: Single-Sentence Synopses of Popular Comics
“For Jonas Madden-Connor, however, this base plotline feels like more of a...”
– Ochre Ellipse #2 by Jonas Madden-Connor « The Daily Cross Hatch
“But I guess I’m of the “old school”: I remember a day not so...”
– The Hurting
Hugh Hewitt's "How Sarah Palin Won the Election... →
“The idea was to tell the story behind the effect that Sarah Palin has had on this election and how it is and why it is that she has basically turned the election around for McCain and why it is that she is resonating with so many people in the country,” he said. “The intent was to finish the book by a week after the election, and to have it out before the inauguration.”