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2013-05-09-bm

Married to My Ideas

2013-05-09-bm

I like the switch between panel 1 and 2 in this one and I like the little drawings. One of them says THE GHOST THAT KILLS.

So I have two news items! One is a New York City event on June 5 at Bluestockings Bookstore with the excellent Chavisa Woods, author of The Albino Album! It is all part of a FANTASTICAL TOUR this summer that will take me from Austin to New York! And back again! And that’s all! But this event is going to be really, really good, and everyone within a two state/province radius should hell of come out to see us read!

The other is that ROCKSALT ISSUE 8 is now upon us! Fantastical work from a variety of artists both old and new! You are commanded to read it, and please take note of the various SPECIAL OFFERS available to the savvy consumer within.

A new strip will appear on MONDAY. Yes, MONDAY

2013-05-07-bm

Bloodcats

2013-05-07-bm

Who is this new mysterious kid? When am I going to like make a cast page to detail facts about my six or so characters?

Hey so check this out! My pal Bill Cheng is FAMOUS NOW, and appears in this interview on NPR’s All Things Considered talking about the Delta Blues and his new book, Southern Cross the Dog, which is AVAILABLE EVEN NOW YES NOW from all stores everywhere! I’m extra excited about this book because while I was writing my book, The Dream of Doctor Bantam, we were both reading our work to our group of pals in a cafe every two weeks, so it’s like this book is some kind of GHOST TWIN to mine book, sharing amniotic fluids and stuff! You ought to read this book. It features a really scary sequence in a swamp, various awesome characters, authentic hoodoo magics, and all kinds of good writing. GO READ THIS BOOK NOW.

In other MY FRIENDS ARE GREAT DEPARTMENT NEWS: Miracle Jones was just exhaustively interviewed by The Rumpus! One of my fave quotes in an interview full of fave quotes:

I think the future of publishing is a mere change in metaphor from books as “commodity” to books as “location.” Having “electronic rights” will not mean being able to put out a single, boring text file for “download.” Electronic rights will mean property rights: you will host the one copy of the text that everyone visits and with which everyone interacts. Pirating books will become as silly as pirating houses or food. That’s why celebrity chefs are being pushed so hard as the new “rock stars”: elaborately-prepared meals are the very last art that can’t be copied.

Please widely share this interview! Use like Twitter and Tumblr and stuff! The world’s gotta know!

I guess there will be a new strip Thursday? Maybe we will learn more about this kid and his deal then.

2013-05-02-bm

Walking in a Circle

2013-05-02-bm

I like a lot of things about Mona’s house! Notably I like that her tomatoes are doing better than mine are, at present.

The book Mona is reading is AT LADY MOLLY’S, the fourth book in Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time series. So far it’s probably the best of the series, if only because it’s More About Widmerpool than the others. Basically this series is like Proust except (1) funnier, (2) featuring occult topics, and (3) containing a far greater percentage of rank coincidences. I like ridiculously sustained writing/narrative projects A LOT, so if you like these as well (plus you have an affection for early twentieth-century British society and some level of tolerance for long passages about how the “character of women can never truly be known to men,” which are annoying but which aren’t the WHOLE point, at least), give it a shot!

New comix Tuesday, I think.

2013-04-30-bm

If You Enjoy People

2013-04-30-bm

Mona and Cathy are out on the town!

It looks like I’m gonna be reading in NYC in June with one of my favorite writers and people! Details to come once they’re more final. Putative title of the event: DOUBLE FIST

New comic Thursday! This one featuring Inez, and a magic garden!

2013-04-25-bm

A Killer Whale, a Tiger Shark (1 of 2)

2013-04-25-bm

The first in a two-part series involving SONGCRAFT. The next part will be tomorrow! TUNE IN

In a special BONUS FEATURE, I also did a comic about the characters from the Dungeons and Dragons game friends and I have been involved in for like half a year now! It’s here on my Tumblr, and also here, in miniature:

In YET ANOTHER SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE, I also have this awesome Bad Mother fan art that Kathleen Jacques of Band Vs. Band did for me for my birthday (which was, uh, a while ago) that I don’t think I’ve yet posted here! It features Mona, Betty, and Inez enjoying WHOLESOME PURSUITS:

You should be reading Band vs. Band, guys! Something really cool happened!

All right, SEE YOU TOMORROW

2013-04-22-bm

Sonic Experimentations

2013-04-22-bm

I drew this strip back in January and have hung onto it because I don’t like it that much. Valuable elements: we learn the name of the coffee shop Mona and Cathy work at; we get evidence that Sometimes Groups Play There; we get evidence that Cathy likes this guy’s weird electronic music. We see that there is a staircase in Starkfutur Coffee. (Rory has an art gallery upstairs that maybe we’ll see at one point.) There’s this whole world this is some kind of keystone to.

Inspiration: K. Carter of Derangement of the Senses, though I don’t think he’d like name a band BRAUTIGAN’S GRAVITAS and also his music is good and stuff

There are more new strips slowly being completed. I’m feeling kinda cut off from comics as a general thing lately, which has led to a lot more work on my next novel, which nobody’s gonna be able to read for a long time. Can anyone recommend Good Story Comics? I dig this comic Rain kinda, but it’s not in and of itself moving me to work on this particular story more than other stories: I’m doing a bunch of scripts and pencils but it doesn’t seem like something I’m building so much as something I’m like passing time with, which is the wrong feeling. I’ll get past it

Bless this Mess

2013-04-11-bm

Let Your Indulgence Set Me Free

2013-04-11-bm

Comics are power fantasies! Everyone sez so

I don’t have a ton of news! There was a neat Boat Girl update the other day, for those who missed it. I don’t even know who reads this these days.

WORLD TOUR SCHEDULE upcoming:

  • New Orleans: later today until Sunday
  • New York: early June
  • WHO KNOWS WHAT, AFTERWARD

New comics coming sometime soon! There are a bunch in a half state of completion. This one was like completely done tonight, though, in an eerily short space of time. I wish Cathy had her own fun strip full of mean-spirited trans adventures sometimes

SEE YOU ALL SOON.

 

2013-02-12-bm

The Burden I’ve Accepted

2013-02-12-bm

Comically, I wrote this strip in October 2012, and it took four months to actually do it.

MEDIA ROUNDUP:

  • I interviewed Constellation Games author Leonard Richardson at Bookslut! Those who have not yet read Constellation Games: go read it! If you have to read this interview first to get you all excited about the book, please do it! DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.
  • My pal Bill Cheng has a piece in the New York Times! It is about New York City, race, and dim sum bakeries. It is excellent. It is surreal that there’s a cartoon of someone I know accompanying this article. Please check it out!

The hope is new comix Thursday. THIS IS THE HOPE

2013-02-07-bm

A-1 Helldragons

2013-02-07-bm

OH GOSH THAT WAS SO LONG SINCE THE LAST COMIC. I’m sorry! I don’t know what it is about January! It’s something about my birthday and New Year’s and ugggh. Please enjoy this!

ALSO PLEASE ENJOY THIS AS MUCH AS I: my comix pal Kathleen Jacques (of BAND VS BAND) drew excellent Bad Mother fan art for my birthday! Please enjoy her rendering of this charming, chilling scene from the horrifying everyday occult life of the Spector household. THANK YOU SO MUCH KATHLEEN. (I feel like I also owe her for use of the term “helldragons,” but can’t confirm this? At least in spirit, this is clearly a KJ term)