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.