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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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As my friend says, SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #9 ON SALE AT THE END OF JUNE! I'm picking up right where Robert E. Howard's Red Nails ends! First couple of pages includes Howard's exact dialogue so I got a taste of 'adaptation'. Plus a KULL back-up story by @fabiannicieza.bsky.social and Sean Chen!

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SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #9 ON SALE AT THE END OF JUNE! Lead Conan story by @patrickzircher.bsky.social with a KULL back-up story by moi and Sean Chen More fun than I should have been allowed to have! First new KULL material in the Heroic Signature / @comicstitan.bsky.social publishing program!

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The 500 hours of making a color comic could be divided as: 55 hrs writing 265 hrs drawing 120 hrs coloring 35 hrs lettering 25 hrs editing

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Misdirection, projection, aggravation, humiliation, no reflection of the situation Ball of confusion That's what the world is today Oh yeah.

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I love Wales. I even set a story in Wales.

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CATCH OF THE YEAR - Denzel Clarke goes wayyyyy over the fence to rob a HR from the Angels' Nolan Shanuel

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Latest read, The Upanishads; a sacred text of Hinduism. Where there is progress one sees and has faith. Where there is no progress there is no faith; know the nature of Progress. Where there is creation there is progress; where there is no creation there is no progress; know the nature of Creation.

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I read this is one of the names for it: un baiser amoureux "The kiss of lovers". Would be classy if it's true.

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