Yet another exciting review of my novel has come in, everybody! This one is from Neon Magazine and it ends like this:
If you think that the protagonist’s involvement with a cult is an odd direction for the story to take, then you’re right. But this novel is built on odd directions, strangeness, darkness, sudden violence and the wildness of youth. The presentation of the book is similarly intriguing, with punkish, hand-drawn illustrations fronting each of the long sections, and an intermission in the middle. It’s the kind of thing, you get the sense, that Julie herself would have liked.
This is eerily gratifying, to have someone believe that one of my characters would like the story I wrote about her. I hope this is generally true! I feel that somehow even the Man Who Hates Fun would like the story I’ve written about him, just because like showing him in the worst possible light is somehow doing good service to Reason Itself. (I am actually working on the MWHF conclusion, but REALLY SLOWLY. Some pages are drawn and they are pretty good, I think, but I don’t want to promise stuff until I have a pretty solid idea of when.)
ALSO: a new issue of Rocksalt Magazine has come among us! This one has probably my favorite Rocksalt cover yet, by Anton Solomonik of ANIMAL CITY.
Regarding this strip: I don’t know if I’ve ever drawn the Spector family cat–or rather, I have, but I don’t think I’ve put the strip featuring this cat up yet? But it’s pretty transparently my cat, who is legitimately maybe some kind of Evil.
Like seriously THIS JOKE MAKES SENSE RIGHT
New strip Tuesday! It features more Second Life wackiness! Um, don’t read it at work probably!