First – on December 11, a mere two days from now, I’ll be at the Berkeley Alternative Press Book Fair! Come – get free sketches – talk to me!! Cubism’s a funny thing. The first properly cubist work was created […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair was a fine time, and I came back with a foot thick stack of zines which I am making my way through. Kate Saturday, our way awesome neighbor at APE, was there in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve just finished reading Kirsten Alene’s Love in the Time of Dinosaurs, and would like to recommend it to the rest of the world. In its brief seventy seven pages, it manages to construct a universe which is deeply contradictory […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you’re going to have a warm moment of mutual holiday sacrifice, I suppose, you need to first make sure that everybody is on the same page. But at least Peter is finally getting to finish what he started when […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The original ETA Hoffmann story on which The Nutcracker is based is a strange, strange thing – like pretty much everything that Hoffmann wrote – and was radically pared down for the ballet. You have to drop SOMETHING to make […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy new year and welcome back to the main story! I don’t have too much to say plot-wise here, so instead let’s talk some Picasso and look at a picture! This is the 1907 Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – originally a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Sunday will be the 4th Anniversary of Frederick the Great, and you can expect big announcements in the Tuesday chatter! In the meantime, Newton’s plan looks to finally be coming together. I’m not sure what timeline it was that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sunday was the fourth anniversary of our very first Frederick the Great comic, which a few of my tutoring students celebrated by showing up in Newton colors, which was pretty rad. To mark the date, we have An Announcement, A […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Euler is right, we have managed to pick the one arc in which he and Emily don’t show up at all as far as I know. Yes, rather than starting from the very beginning for our first published collection, we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Both Picasso and Cezanne belong to the Great Artist/Unpleasant Human category, and particularly with regard to their treatment of women. With Picasso, it’s pretty clear cut – amidst the constant whoring, he would find one main woman for whom he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…