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Latest read (audio), A Writer's Diary (1953, posthumous) by Virginia Woolf; Woolf kept a diary for 27 yrs, until just 4 days before her death. Here are satisfactions and frustrations, happiness and fears. Genuine, articulate, beautiful, not self-conscious-- even in her diary entries. A true writer.

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When someone posts my art from the 1980s or 90s, I mute the thread.

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Sometimes you can really see the artist in the character. Hugo Pratt and Corto Maltese.

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Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

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Congratulations to Pat Barker, an excellent author, on her dameship. And these two guys.

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Forgive yourself your small vanities. "It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name, yet I often do." -- Virginia Woolf age 48, having already written what are now considered three of the 100 greatest books (thegreatestbooks.org)

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Fixed it.

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Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust (2000) #animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

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Know what's funny about Albee's title, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Academics have wrestled with the significance of the title since it was published. Albee said it was graffiti scribbled in a bar that simply stuck in his head. But it does work as a title for a story of academics falling apart.

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On my fifth Virginia Woolf book and she's one of my 'great eight' of favorite authors. Intelligent & honest. In part, because one was a book of her lectures, and the current one her diary-- so I'm seeing her in ways that strictly reading novels does not show a reader. I'm a little in love with her.

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@patrickzircher.bsky.social The passion you have for this comic shines through on every page!

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People who couldn't be bothered to read history are going to live it. 19th century economic & social strata. No social safety net. A rich elite & no middle class. No escape from child-rearing, the poor putting their children to work at younger ages. No services for the poor. Work farms. Poor houses.

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Trump put Billy Long in charge of the IRS. Long's ambition has been to dismantle it. Not for you, but because the rich don't want to pay taxes. No IRS, not enough funds for social security checks. Trumper, you have very likely fucked over your parents and yourself.

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However much solitude you think you need to make comics, triple it. It's a life devoted to something as sure as being a Shao Lin monk is a life. I've got about 6 hours away from the drawing board a week and once that's spent I'm unreachable.

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How I take criticism: "I like constructive criticism from smart people." -- Prince

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My dog lying behind my drawing chair, sighing because I'm not petting her.

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This will come out when Mel is 100 years old. Not kidding. Amazeballs.

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I see the point you're making but in this case, Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain (created in 1921). So, as long as it is not "Disney's Winnie", this can be done.

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Always loved this Adams splash. Favorite Avengers era (though this is an Inhumans story). This image is when I realized I was finicky. Verpoorten inked a heavy shadow on that foreground hand. Over-rendered, really. Usually indicates it should be knocked out (a muted monochrome) or lower luminosity.

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The world's a more tolerable place if you don't turn your back on the beauty in it.

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Latest read (audio & print), Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton; what a beautiful book, not just the glory of the angelic/demonic battles but passages like Satan almost succumbing to Eve's beauty, and Adam and Eve experiencing the unknown, aging and impending death. Fine reading by Simon Vance.

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Don't care how old you are, we all want to outlive the same guy.

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I really like text, prose, and narration in comics. It gives them a novelistic quality. Because, see, I like books. Books are good.

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Gene Colan drawing Dr. Doom. A steal. If I ran special projects I'd have a hardcover collecting every story in which he drew Doom.

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Merely retweeting this will raise questions about my own sanity but I like it. I don't even know what's real or not here. It's a brew of Lynch, Carruth, Andy Kaufman, sarcasm, and confession. Pathetic-in-a-good-way (is that possible?)

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One for Genevieve, who loves this song. Rest in peace, Brian Wilson. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pnm...

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I'd like to ask him 10 basic health science questions. When he's incapable of answering them, I'd then like to ask why incompetent people in the upper echelons of government keep receiving jobs they're unqualified to perform. Then I'd like to start throwing pies.

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My daughter and daughter-to-be call and we talk for an hour, sometimes two, and we laugh, confide. Are really honest with each other. It's totally against the male stereotype. I'm momma. And I love it. The calls mean so much to me.

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