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Waiting for the day when this Riso thing calms down at shows. I’m blinded by all the neon coloring that serves no conceptual purpose for storytelling in comics. I don’t get it. Using riso for art prints makes more sense.

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Great time at the Carol Tyler opening tonight at the Billy Ireland. It and the Motion Lines exhibits are a lot to take in. Saw a Lupin original and it is small and tightly inked. Damn. Looking forward to Carol’s new book.

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Watched the Last Showgirl (streaming on Hulu) this afternoon. Anderson was fantastic.

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The designs I keep seeing from a local tshirt company I tried applying at keep getting progressively worse. Their starting pay was insulting which I didn’t see posted till I asked around. Dodged one there.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

That moment when an omnibus you’ve been waiting for over a decade to happen blows it with a blah cover that looks like it was a $5 job commissioned on Fiverr.

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It is interesting the choices you see in comic making at an indie show. There’s a hang up over making the object versus making a more affordable product that’s meant for building a following… aka a career.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Day 1 of SPACE is done. It’s always good catching up with people during the slow times of the show. There is a a significant amount of construction from the parking lot to the Rhodes Center. Not terrible to navigate. The show picks up tomorrow at 10am. Goes till 5.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

After watching Carville’s latest meltdown, screw that guy. His corporate friendly centrism is part of the reason why the Dem’s lost. AOC and Hogg are the future grandpa.

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Here’s hoping the knuckle heads reinstate my insurance in time for chemo tomorrow. This is no fault of mine but a clerical fuck up of my former employer. Which wouldn’t be a thing if we just had fucking single payer healthcare in the US.

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Pet peeve: shows whose submission form is a dang Google form where I have to remember my password to log in. Ugh, there has to be a way where I can actually see the form & don’t bury the table cost in that. WTF?

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Dealing w/ the non-treatment but related cancer stuff this week. Breaking it up in 1/2 days so I can actually have a break week. (As what my chemo schedule intended this week to be.) My employer that furloughed me is becoming a pain in the ass. Can’t wait till May so I can wash my hands of them.

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The show floor map is go!!! Next Saturday it’ll be a Panel collective reunion of sorts. Jim Rugg & Tom Scioli are coming Saturday. Nate Powell, Carol Tyler, etc. It’s going to be a hoot. Here’s hoping your book is on route to the copy shop.

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I went through a stack of stuff my mom saved for me. Honestly it was therapeutic as I threw most of it out. I felt so out of place for almost the entire 18 years of my life, like I was living on another planet.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

That moment where you find out someone just got divorced because they’re now on a dating app. Did I swipe right? No. No, I didn’t.

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Got the news today that a guy who tabled behind me at Eddie P Con last year has stage 4 brain cancer. Thoughts go out to his family at this time. God speed Marco. Check out his work here… ko-fi.com/marcoantonio...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to see that Jim Rugg & Tom Scioli will be coming to SPACE (Saturday only) here in Columbus, Ohio. The longest running indie comics / zine show of it’s kind in the Midwest.

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Since a lot of book publishing (including comics & graphic novels) are done in China, with no viable solution in the states, these tariffs are bound to devastate the small indie publisher.

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Basically anyone that didn’t take analog lettering back when I was doing it, you can ‘ink’ with gouache using a crowquil. The trick is to wet the paint down to a certain consistency so it will flow through a nib. Definitely rinse it off as soon as you’re done.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

I’m going to have to google when the Strange Days run ends because I’m confident I can find the rest of it in Pittsburgh dollar bins. I found issues one and two so far. Both in really good shape too.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

1st show of the year was a solid indie show in Pittsburgh. I’m not sure how the treatments are going to affect me come time for SPACE the last weekend of April. I kept that one but schedule is clear till early September.

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to everyone for a great weekend in Pittsburgh. PIE went well. Knew little to nothing about the venue which happened to have a Mr Roger’s exhibit (?) a floor below the show. Hit Eides for the 1st time. Turnout was fantastic for an indie show.

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Saw that someone is trying to rent out a 3 bedroom house in my hometown for $1k a month. I’d consider living there only if the town paid me $1k a month to move there. There’s no industry or decent paying jobs save for an hour plus commute. Very rural. Very remote. Featured in WSJ for opioids.

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There is a drive now, good or bad, to crank out everything I can… comics wise. While I’m going to beat this cancer thing, it is a wake up call that I am clocking in at the half century mark. There are many ideas, almost a connected universe, if I go that way.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Didn’t know this until this week but not all cancers get a stage designation. I was trying to apply for disability while under treatment & the question came up. Went back to oncology, and the diagnosis has one long sentence of a description. Anyhow, now I’m involving a social worker to help out.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Here's a recent interview I did! Thanks, Brandon! brandonkeaton.substack.com/p/the-colour...

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