Was planning on penciling some TSG today, but the whole day was lost to scanning all 200 pages of THE MEANING OF DEATH before shipping it off to its buyer. I note that the vibrant pink pigments I used on quite a few pages (including the one pictured), barely turn up at all in th … | Continue reading
Egypt Sends Somalia Military Aid: Looks like Egypt has found the perfect pretext to enter into military conflict with Ethiopia, in actuality over Nile water disputes which have been brewing for some time. This wouldn't be the first time Egypt enters into military conflict with E … | Continue reading
Moved my most-read blog post, THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM, to the main dot com, and also populated a few of the sections with some work I hadn't yet uploaded. More of that over the next few days. Penciled one page of TSG and will attempt another right after I break for some excercis … | Continue reading
THE SOLAR GRID #1 is completely sold out. Issues #2-8 are still in stock. I'm sure the time will come when I look upon these single-chapter editions as the strange time capsules that they are. Started THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus. This being my third Camus, it's now very evident t … | Continue reading
I'm sick of both U.S. presidential candidates popping up on my screen several times a day to ask for money. Is there any other place on Earth where rich politicians not only expect your vote, but have the gall to ask you to pay for it too? Mangal-Media: Istanbul-based micropress … | Continue reading
Newsletter scheduled to send in a few hours from now. This will be issue #213 and its title is The Inherent] Evil of Techno-Optimism, and just as it says on the tin, its main feature is a [partial] takedown of Marc Anderseen's horrendous [The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. Inbox 63, … | Continue reading
Genuinely surprised there isn't more reporting on Israel remotely detonating handheld devices across Lebanon, and how news of this is not seeping into tech news. This takes the notion of weaponizing handheld devices against its users to a whole new level. Truly terrifying, and we … | Continue reading
Borges himself was a translator of some note, and in addition to the translations per se that he left to Spanish culture--a number of German lyrics, Faulkner, Woolf, Whitman, Melville, Carlyle, Swedenborg, and others--he left at least three essays on the act of translation itself … | Continue reading
Now I get why they say Borges is a writer's writer. "I had wondered how a book could be infinite. The only way I could surmise was that it be a cyclical, or circular, volume, a volume whose last page would be identical to the first, so that one might go on indefinitely." His FI … | Continue reading
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. In the center of each gallery is a ventilation shaft, bounded by a low railing. From one hexagon one can see the floors above and below--one after another, e … | Continue reading
It's been gray and rainy all day. Less than ideal day to venture out for a haircut and groceries, but I'd already planned it that way and stuck to the plan. Work: Only had enough time to rough out one TSG page, and did some sketching/thinking on PROJECT BLOSSOM. Reads: Past the … | Continue reading
It is hard to believe that this chapter may very well be the last time I draw her for a very long time if not forever. My plan for the day turned out to be a little too ambitious after all, but TSG pages are coming along smoothly. Today's background listening included: Bret E … | Continue reading
The good air blowing through Houston is apparently the result of a tropical storm brewing right off the coast, for which we are being informed to brace ourselves. Third one this year. The city of Houston really ought to consider replacing all its roads and freeways with canals an … | Continue reading
You are about to read Ganzeer's review of Italo Calvino's IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, a book which Ganzeer devoured in a week and immediately upon completion couldn't wait to write his impressions of, the task he is embarking on at this very moment. In doing so, however, h … | Continue reading
A cool sea-like breeze blew through the city all day today, finally [hopefully] announcing a genuine end to that Texan summer. Day started on a good enough note, was finally able to take my bike out after many months of its sitting idly in my living room. Kiddo started soccer pra … | Continue reading
"How many years has it been since I could abandon myself to a book written by another, with no relation to what I must write myself?" From IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER by Italo Calvino. Image above is a screen grab showing one of Calvino's mad manuscripts, from a great 19 … | Continue reading
Artwork to go with my review of Bob Dylan's CHRONICLES, VOL. 1. A poster edition of the artwork is available from Garage.Ganzeer. I'm afraid I'll be keeping the original. Issue #212 of my newsletter, RESTRICTED FREQUENCY, went out last night. The Art of Subversion is the title. … | Continue reading
"If reading attention reaches certain highs with a certain continuity, the product is viable and can be launched on the market; if attention, on the contrary, relaxes and shifts, the combination is rejected and its elements are broken up and used again in other contexts." What w … | Continue reading
"There's a boundary line: on one side are those who make books, on the other are those who read them, so I take care always to remain on my side of the line. Otherwise, the unsullied pleasure of reading ends, or at least is transformed into something else, which is not what I wan … | Continue reading
Eluding these assaults, you come up beneath the towers of the fortress, where other troops are holding out: the Books You've Been Planning To Read For Ages, the Books You've Been Hunting For Years Without Success, the Books Dealing With Something You're Working On At The Moment, … | Continue reading
"Daddy, are you an artist." Yes I am, Moony. "That's so cool." Ha! I used to think so too, kiddo, once upon a time. Moony | Continue reading
Final TSG thumbs clock in at 36 pages and there ain't no other way about it. There are four pages worth that maybe aren't wholly relevant to the plot, but they provide good narrative flow, add much richness to the story, and induce it with "real-world info", or non-fiction if you … | Continue reading
Thomas Flight on Hollywood's Obsession with Ambition, or rather a video essay on Ambition vs. Mindfulness as seen through Christopher Storer's THE BEAR vs. Wim Wenders' PERFECT DAYS. Warren Ellis on Giorgio De Maria's THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN. Aditya Bidikar on blurring the lin … | Continue reading
We're not always looking for ideas, sometimes ideas are looking for us. Sometimes they violently break through the windows of your mind when you least expect it and sweep through you with unstoppable gusto. Attempting to resist can be futile. No use trying to shutter them windows … | Continue reading
Made it past the 20-page mark on latest TSG thumbs and still plenty of story to tell. It is evident that capping this chapter at 20 is impossible if I want to do it any justice, and do it justice I must. Will try to see if I can close it at 30. Mind turned to mush, I find this s … | Continue reading
I was asked to design this year's poster for my favorite annual event in all of Texas: Zine Fest Houston. This year's theme is: Zine-topia/Dystopia, so y'know, right up my alley. work | Continue reading
It is my understanding that I have some work showing in London right now. What: Hudood - Rethinking Boundaries Where: SOAS Gallery When: 11 July to 21 September, 2024 A catalog is available for download. #work #exhibition | Continue reading
Sold out of both issues of THE CURSE OF I from my end. Last remaining copies can still be procured however from Basket Books in Houston and Desert Island in Brooklyn. Rain came down long and hard last night and I am getting notifications from the airline that severe weather cond … | Continue reading
New York City has no chill. That's it, that's the post. #journal #travel #nyc | Continue reading
He glances up and grabs a pigeon, crops the shot, and squirts it at his weblog to show he's arrived. Because I'm a hopeless workaholic, I brought my TSG notebooks with me on what was supposed to be my New York getaway to try and solve story-compression issues relating to the fin … | Continue reading
Just arrived from ThingsbyDan. Couldn't not order the minute I saw it. Dying to give it a test run, but will have to wait till after my return from New York. tools | Continue reading
It is for the most part a problem-solving novel, and I like that. Robinson is able to make the uphill battle involved in all the bureaucracy and policy-making and head-butting that would ostensibly constitute the seemingly impossible task of reversing climate change read like a r … | Continue reading
Latest digital_ TSG has dropped. Print forthcoming. #work #comix #tsg | Continue reading
"The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of a people's youth." -- E.M.Cioran, The Temptation to Exist #quote #reads | Continue reading
Moorcock's advice on how to write a novel in 3 days is well known at this point, but it is very specific to the kind of adventure/fantasy yarns I have zero interest in. So what follows is my attempt to take the bits of advice that could ostensibly apply to writing a more "serious … | Continue reading
Documentary Area -- Free documentaries. MuscleWiki -- Click on a muscle, check the equipment you have, and a demonstration of an exercise for that particular muscle pops up. web | Continue reading
"Influence is the thing that helps you get on the launchpad, holds you in place, but at a certain point when you've taken off, it falls away." -- Salman Rushdie | Continue reading
Week's worth of Mythomatic orders fulfilled, quite a few international ones. Inboxes at 152, RSS 147. 34C today, "feels like 43". #journal #STATUS | Continue reading
"Daddeee, what's that sound you made?" Me? (Feeling exposed) Oh, haha, nothing, habibi, that... that was an accident. "That was a funny sound you made, daddy," he says laughing, which makes me laugh too, deliriously. "Are you really tired, daddy?" Hahaha, yes I am, son, you c … | Continue reading
Original artboards for THE SOLAR GRID to date. One more chapter left and I'm done. #work #comix #tsg | Continue reading
A couple hours after the sense of release/relief following the completion of the TSG chapter that precedes the very last, I started to think about the work ahead: The next and final chapter in THE SOLAR GRID. According to script and thumbs, the last chapter is a 50-page beast. B … | Continue reading
Ooof. Okay, off to New York for a few days. #journal #tsg | Continue reading
Just announced from Graphic Mundi, wherein Yazan Al-Saadi's dispatches are illustrated by an impressive lineup of comix-makers including one short illustrated by me, originally for the now sadly defunct The Nib. Titled Cairo Under the Crackdown_, here's an excerpt. #work #comix | Continue reading
You know you're stressed when all your rules concerning carb intake are out the window. Good morning. journal | Continue reading
I'm sure I will regret this 11:00pm coffee, but I need to push to get this chapter in the can. It's true what they say, the last 10% of any project is always the hardest. No idea who "they" are, but I'm pretty sure it's a thing. #journal #work #comix #tsg #resistdystopia | Continue reading
Inking with a Q-tip to get them fat cap feels. Always a challenge to recreate the look of one medium using another, but I think it turned out alright. #work #comix #tsg #resistdystopia | Continue reading
"Why are you so tired, daddy?" Well, Mr. Moony, I was working all day today, and the work is still not finished, and I have so much more work to do still. "Are you gonna work while I sleep?" Probably. --- "Why do old people die, daddy?" Well... because they've been alive fo … | Continue reading
How American Purity Culture Led to a Shocking Affair -- Mikita Brottman for Crimereads on her new book GUILTY CREATURES. Roots of the American Southern accent. H.G. Well's THE TIME MACHINE audio drama from the BBC circa 2009. "Alan Moore is a writer and magician from Northhamp … | Continue reading