Newsletter drafted and scheduled for tomorrow but my week--despite it being a Friday evening already--is still not over. Much email to catch up on and my RSS reader is at 36. Would like to bring it all down to zero before night's end. If I can. journal | Continue reading
"Caribbean sugar plantations constituted the first truly modernized societies in the world where people, mobilized through violence and oppression, were thrust into remarkably industrial settings for their time. The sugar industry also created the economic basis for the European … | Continue reading
Insomnia kicked in the other night, and I found myself beaming RIPLEY. Beautifully shot series! Entirely black and white with some of the most unusual angles I've seen on screen. In this iteration, Mr. Ripley is actually not all that talented, and in fact kind of a fuckup. It's … | Continue reading
Came across this Arabic comix magazine on my shelf and realized I have yet to post about it, and it is certainly worthy of a post, not just because I happen to be featured in it but because its format/approach isn't one I think I've come across before. Featuring critical essays, … | Continue reading
Mythomatic orders fulfilled and paintings hauled to the vault, and that's my exercise for the day. Read Dominic Boyer's NO MORE FOSSILS, which distills extensive research into an immensely insightful handy 96-page sort-of-pocketbook. Remainder of the day will have to constitute … | Continue reading
Hit the 100-page mark on Salman Rushdie's THE SATANIC VERSES, my threshold for testing my appetite for any given book. It still feels like a drop in THE SATANIC VERSES' hellish waters, because it's not even a quarter of the way through and I'm not entirely sure what it's even abo … | Continue reading
"Marijuana smoking by white youth represented a symbolic threat to normative suburban values and capitalist ideologies" -- Mathew D. Lassiter on America's war on drugs. The U.S. military's Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) expresses concern over China's expanding presence in Antigua a … | Continue reading
PROJECT OLDBOOK trudging along, around the midway point now. Really need to move faster though. Very early on in the project, the idea of something AI-based was suggested. But no, I ended up going in the absolute polar opposite direction with the most tactile and labor intensive … | Continue reading
Steven Heller isn't wrong in calling me an "Artist Who Designs (and Vice Versa)" in this short interview over at his blog The Daily Heller (hosted by Print Mag). Quite an honor to be featured on Steven's blog. I remember first encountering his book, Design Literacy, at the tend … | Continue reading
Accounting today, which I am behind on and will certainly suck my soul dry by day's end. Also on the docket: Fulfilling Mythomatic orders. Meal prep (because not enough time over the weekend). Excercise And that's probably already one thing too many to fit into a single workday … | Continue reading
Love me a good drag show. The thing about drag shows is that they could either be a sign of a closed society (where women performing in public is considered taboo) or an open one (where men needn't abide by heteronormative restrictions). I get the sense that in Houston, it's act … | Continue reading
We all know about Diego Riviera the great muralist, but seldom do we hear about Diego Riviera the illustrator. Picked this up in Mexico some time ago and I am positively obsessed. I'm not entirely sure why, but there's a quality to Riviera's lineart that I find wholly attractive … | Continue reading
Sometimes you just gotta bust out that glue stick. Nothing about how I approach comix is conventional, and it's going to get weirder and weirder. Inboxes zero. Glorious day. #work #comix #TSG | Continue reading
Apparently, there are websites you can't access from Texas anymore. I remember how the use of VPNs became quite wise in Egypt towards the tail end of the half-revolution, certainly becoming a thing amongst more tech-saavy folk. Never would I have expected it to become a necessit … | Continue reading
Awoke last night to the sound of thunder and discovered a mad storm brewing, lightning from every direction blasted bursts of light into the apartment. Most of the morning was gray, the city enveloped in thick clouds. Then suddenly by day's end, the blue behind the clouds reveale … | Continue reading
Drew and designed this cover back in 2019, but it wasn't published until late 2022, and I only got my comp copy this year because Walter (Chaw) was so adamant about getting it signed by Walter Hill for me. I'm glad he did, it's a delightful and humbling inscription which I'm keep … | Continue reading
The latest THE SOLAR GRID installment is now available in print. Only two more bad boys to go and I will be done forever. #work #comix #tsg | Continue reading
Counting myself lucky to have this ramen spot around the corner from my place for when my little angle brings home some of the sinister daycare illnesses he harbors. Today will be a day for recovery and tidying up and very little else. Reserving my energy for a proper full grind … | Continue reading
Decision: Will only assign any given day to working on a single project. Shifting gears between several messes with my head too much. Quite enjoying the degree of experimentation that Project OLDBOOK (pictured) is affording me right now, and it seems to have come at a right tim … | Continue reading
Had big plans for today (accounting, Project OLDBOOK, TSG, and cooking up a storm) but have instead been rendered paralyzed by an unforgiving migraine. Medication useless. Hard to do anything at all when you can hardly use your eyes or even think through the sharp jabs of the du … | Continue reading
"First thing in the morning"--Great value is placed on the first thing you do in the morning; be it slurping a spoonful of raw honey, exercise, making your bed, journaling, showering or what have you, it feels like every other person will advise you to do that one particular thin … | Continue reading
Newsletter out, last time through Substack. Transitioning over to EmailOctopus, because their pricing tiers strike me as fair and one of my favorite newsletters (Dense Discovery) does some nice layout stuff with it, and I'd like to do some nice things with mine, really make it my … | Continue reading
It's got me thinking that a reversal of the typical folk horror narrative might be worthy to explore, as it seems to me that narratives often described as folk horror are inherently pro-coloni... | Continue reading
Third day in a row to wake up with a migraine. Beginning to think that the culprit lies in my new supplements. In other news, my TBR pile has grown rather unruly. Some of these are partially read (a terrible habit), and that's not even taking my Kindle titles into consideration … | Continue reading
"Just one gram of antimatter could generate an explosion equivalent to a nuclear bomb. It's that kind of energy, some say, that could boldly take us where no one has gone before at record speed." It could also--and, if history has taught us anything, probably will--do other thin … | Continue reading
11:20am and brain is still mush. Slow start today, and quite a bit to do. One more page to rough out on the latest TSG, before fiddling with other art stuff. One of them a painting I started yesterday, and the other a sort-of-music-video that involves producing 13 pages of art-jo … | Continue reading
Productivity: Are We Okay? -- Wisecrack I feel exposed. | Continue reading
Level unlocked: I have discovered a combination of potions that enable me to get done everything I set out to do on any given day. As long as I skip showers, neglect dishes, and have enough leftovers. | Continue reading
Comix is a momentum game. Break your momentum and it's very hard to get back on track, and I knew my brisk excursion to Philly would do just that. The talk went well, and it was great meeting all the panelists in person, as well as meeting other people in the city, so I have no r … | Continue reading
Tonight in Philly - Imag(in)ing Revolutions: Traditions of Unrest for an Anticolonial Art Praxis Can't be on the East Coast without indulging in a morning bagel, keto be damned (which I'm very easygoing about anyway). An idea for a novel made its way into my head that I can't … | Continue reading
My instagram feed seems to have become populated by more targeted ads than content from the actual people I follow, a less than surprising development, I s'pose. Many of the ads seem to be hawking solutions for dealing with extended fatigue, which I have indeed been suffering fro … | Continue reading
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Attempting to codify how my week goes as well as pinpoint areas that could use improvement. The thing I'm proudest of the most is manag... | Continue reading
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Sim Kern's THE FREE PEOPLE'S VILLAGE release at Brazos Bookstore the other day went superbly well. It was a full house, and their conve... | Continue reading
THE BIG BOOK OF CYBERPUNK drops in just 13 days, and its impressive table of contents has been announced on File 770. Like other Best-... | Continue reading