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Been meaning to say how much I appreciate your work, Bobby Campbell! Thank you for sharing, and keep it up!

I really appreciate that, Ziegejunge! 

I don't care much about Star Wars, but my friends do, so I'm gonna repost that on my Facebook.

Right on & thanks, Nigel!

Yeah, the venn diagram of people who care about Joyce & people who care about Star Wars is a pretty small sliver, but hopefully all 15 of them will enjoy this! 

Thank you.  Can't wait to check out new posts here, always pleasantly surprised

Thanks, as always, for checking in! 

Nice!

Super very much obliged! 



I wrote a silly thing about How James Joyce Inspired Star Wars

Redux version of 2004ish comic

Posted another antique over at disinfo: https://disinfo.com/2016/01/bill-hicks-good-news/

Super cool, LuciferX! 

That must have been super weird. Do you know who bought it?

It wasn't anybody I knew, but I remember them being super cool about it. It actually turned out for the best even, as it's way better off up one someone's wall, rather than stashed in a cardboard box in my basement 

My fav out of all of them is "The Chase" What a dumb/awesome movie for RAW to own on VHS.

Also, I drew that pic on his wall w/ Harvey the Rabbit. Gave it to him when I visited back in the day 

That's cool! It's totally recognizable as your style, too.

Thx much!

And so like after RAW passed, his estate was selling a bunch of his stuff on ebay, including that Harvey/RAW pic. I tried to buy it back, but lost a bidding war, and was in the strange position of being unable to afford my own artwork 

I don't generally take or post pics of myself, except but Stephen The Cat was being excessively adorable.

I like that. Would you mind if I shared it on Facebook? I totally understand if you aren't OK with that.

Don't mind at all! I'm not all that possessive about this stuff. Once it's out there wherever it goes is cool w/ me 

Dign' it - looking at pix 1 & 3 on this thread at work today and I'm just about ready to do some airbrushing atmosphere/space fx myself - thank you for the share

Nice! I've never tried airbrushing. Wd love to see how it turns out! 

My fav out of all of them is "The Chase" What a dumb/awesome movie for RAW to own on VHS.

Also, I drew that pic on his wall w/ Harvey the Rabbit. Gave it to him when I visited back in the day 

Thanks, as always, Nigel & LuciferX! 

Great write up on Sandman Overture, Faust!

I have to admit my attention wavered a bit during the last 2 issues, but that was mainly due to the difficulty of following all those double splash page, circular reading order, dissolved border panels on an iPad. I'd have to zoom in and then get lost searching around for the next sequence. It all looked beautiful though! As much as I enjoy weirdo non-linear story telling, I much prefer all the insanity to be contained within a clearly ordered Ditkoesque panel structure. Though I'm sure it reads much better in print.

I thought the addition of the Endless' parents was really well done, and actually felt like something revealed, rather than something tacked on.

I liked all the Crisis stuff, which made it feel interconnected w/ Morrison's Multiversity & Hickman's Secret Wars, the Monomyth in action.

Other recents Favorites:

Klaus by Grant Morrison & Dan Mora

Described by GM as All Star Santa Claus, and boy is it fun! A subtly pagan, psychadelic, origin story for Santa Claus, beautifully drawn by Dan Mora. GM's writing is kinda minimalistic on this. It's a relatively straight forward story, w/out much clever language, but the premise is fun and the art is OUTSTANDING.  I've spent quite a bit of time zooming in on background details. Mora has a kinda Joe Mad + Matt Wagner style, and his attention to detail is killer. For example, the way he draws frost gathered in the gaps between cobblestones 

Airboy by James Robinson and Greg Hinkle

This is one of those intentionally over the top comics like Garth Ennis used to write. It's James "Starman" Robinson doing a GM meta-fiction, self insert bit, but the real meat of the comic is Robinson super candidly dealing w/ his real life issues. Like, for example, that he's maybe a one hit wonder, as he hasn't done particularly good or successful work since Starman, and also how he became an alcoholic/drug addict. Greg Hinkle's hyper-detailed cartooning makes the series work where it might have otherwise fallen under the weight of Robinson's self-loathing. (Which is both a critical observation and also a plot point in the story!) As much as the book could easily be dismissed as a sort of shock-jock type of thing, it is neat to be reminded what comics can do that no other medium really can. What other medium can include straight up XXX scenes amongst a meta-psychological action-adventure story?

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

Indie comic by a writer/artist who went to high school with Jeffrey Dahmer. Super creepy story in an archetypal grotesque underground cartoon style

Brian Michael Bendis' early Marvel stuff

Surprisingly hooked on BMB comics on Marvel Unlimited. I know he eventually became so ubiquitous that the backlash against him is almost insurmountable, but damn these comics are REALLY well done. His runs on Daredevil, Alias, and Avengers are super addictive and a treasure trove of sequential art innovation. Obviously, since it's where the money is, a lot of ground breaking comic technique is going to be in super hero comics, and BMB does some great stuff in these books.

We had fun at the movies this weekend! 

Nice!

Thanks! Though of course I'll still post up the highlights over here 


Warren Ellis & Jack Kirby's Robot Head

"To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.

Act like you live in the Science Fiction Condition. Act like you can do magic and hold séances for the future and build a brightness control for the sky.

Act like you live in a place where you could walk into space if you wanted. Think big. And then make it better."

WARREN ELLIS – Improving Reality