statue

2012-12-15-bm

Statue

2012-12-15-bm

Hi! It is a SATURDAY STRIP! Featuring nude statuary!

This was actually one of the first Bad Mother strips drawn, I think maybe even at the end of 2011? It’s sat around uninked and uncolored until now. I don’t know why I left it for so long — probably just because it’s a big ol’ page instead of the lean, mean strips, and probably because it has a giant naked statue, which is the kind of element I am leery of including. I wrote it in part to try to figure out the dynamic between Inez and Mona and in part to figure out what kind of weird stuff Mona would have in her bedroom. You can see some of it in this one, which is obviously the leaner, meaner version of this layout. The dynamic between Inez and Mona is also less, uh, HORRIBLE now, I think, though still problematic.

I don’t know what’s up with the painting behind the statue in the last frame. Mona has all kinds of creepy stuff in her bedroom, clearly!

So hey everyone! I am going to be doing an AMA on Reddit on Monday, December 17, at 4 pm! The subject is going to be my book, but I totally welcome/desire questions about comics as well. Please come by with your Reddit account and ask fun stuff! I’m going to try to respond to every question, but who knows how this will go?

New comic Tuesday! I don’t know who will be in it! Maybe Betty, who, you might remember, is Mona’s daughter, and who sometimes appears in this webcomic that is ABOUT HER.

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