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2013-05-30-bm

Bootlegger Turns

2013-05-30-bm

Oh no, a mystery, you guys

Bootlegger turns: I learned about these from a fun editing client! Basically you apply some kind of horrifying engine brake that cuts all forward motion instantly, allowing you to turn via horrible inertia without really losing any momentum. It is the kind of thing everyone should probably learn to do, though I will not actually attempt this.

So there will be comics Tuesday and Thursday next week! They are done, even! They’ll update automatically while I am away from my desk in NYC for the Lambda Literary Awards and various events! It is the magic of computing! Please enjoy!

2012-10-16-bm

Another Day

2012-10-16-bm

This one is dedicated to many of my friends!

News: I got interviewed in Interview magazine, kind of about the book, but more about my feelings about different matters. My book is also said to be a “punky, poetic rush of a book” as well as “sexy, lucid, and quirky,” and it’s asserted that “Thornton nails loss, loneliness, and creepy cult mentalities. ” It is a weird feeling to have an interview about you out there. When I was I think seventeen, I got a perfect score on the ACT assessment test, one of like nine kids in the nation (or in Texas; I don’t remember) to do so, and a reporter came to our house and did an interview that appeared in the local paper. It was a similarly weird experience where you read a story about someone you don’t altogether recognize to be yourself–like I’m sure I said the puppets thing but it sounds so Byronic and harsh and evil and I don’t really feel that judgmental about my like CHILDHOOD FRIENDS. I remember at the time I felt like this was a process that was happening, that people were falling away from some kind of “great purity” which was the same thing depicted in this comic: wasting a lot of time making stuff that is cool but not useful. Now I can recognize this less as “becoming puppets” and more as like, having different interests. But we all become MORE PURE, MORE ELEMENTAL in the media!

(Memorably re: the earlier story, a friend of mine said that the newspaper photographer made my room look “a lot cooler” than it really was)

There should be a new comic on Thursday for everyone