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if you can’t take me at my (see image 1) you don’t deserve me at my (see image 2)

Just finished my second Hideshi Hino book, HELL BABY (English: tr. Hiroo Yamagata, Blast Books, 1995), which is a pleasure. Much like in PANORAMA OF HELL, Hino's tonal heightening and melodrama works gorgeously with the viscosity of his forms and ink. A tremendous, propulsive narrative capsule.

Once again looking for new, ideally recent music to get into. Some musicians I like: MJ Lenderman Christian Lee Hutson Angel Olsen boygenius (and respective solo endeavors) The Mountain Goats The Beach Boys Slaughter Beach, Dog Ethel Cain The Beths Sidney Gish Sufjan Stevens Julia Jacklin

Archaion Episode One - The Child Sun A short synopsis here: drive.google.com/file/d/14vpz... Extracted images here:

about a year ago I jotted down the short comic idea “AI-assisted urinal that analyzes your piss in real time and gives you unsolicited health tips while you’re pissing; you can’t switch it off and because it’s a public urinal everyone can hear” guess I’ve been beaten to the idea

One more week to put your name forward! We’d appreciate it so much if you shared this post, sent to your comics friends or anyone who may be interested! Thank you

just about every track on THE BEACH BOYS LOVE YOU has at least one moment almost goofy enough to take you out of it (rhyming “her” with “brrr,” for instance) but at the same time you get stuff like the one-line chorus “God, please let us go on this way” that makes you go “it doesn’t get much better”

track list for if I had been a middling folk singer in 1966 and recorded one album then quit music

I like Dan Schkade, tbh

It's "Make a Terrible Comic Day," and cousin, I sure tried

I don’t think it’s something that *should* happen but I think it would be super funny if Thomas Pynchon joined TikTok to promote his new book

Two Street Cats

Mutton Chops by @zebko.bsky.social. The eighth issue of A Pocket Chiller. Beneath the churn of a ploughed field, old secrets stir and shiver, reaching old fingers up through the disturbed earth. Get it digitally at linktr.ee/apocketchiller

Blind Alley No. 2

Clearwater chapter 11

thinking about becoming a Raymond Pettibon guy

a funny bit for a band would be to cover “Johnny Carson” by the Beach Boys and swap out “Johnny Carson” for “Jimmy Fallon”

really truly honoured to share that i did this poster for a visit from portlandia! thank you so much to carrie and fred for having me and for being incredibly kind! ngl getting an email from someone who’s band you have a tattoo for is wild stuff and i won’t get over it.

save me new album by The Beths out August 29th…

We would like to remind you that today is the last day of the Lore Game Books Bundle and that few original artwork from Bramble by Luke Baker @spacemacchiato.bsky.social are still available. Don't miss this chance!

i have done many drawings about my love of new york city. most notably for the new yorker (i think!). i lived in new york for ten years, i love it and so many in it. please, nyc vote for zohran

Well, the last three comics that *arrived* were CLYDE FANS and GEORGE SPROTT by Seth and THE AWAKE FIELD by Ron Regé (who, by the way, is recovering from an injury and is doing a GoFundMe, will link in the reply for anyone who may want to support)

Huizenga’s GLORIANA, Nilsen’s THE END, DeForge’s “Roleplay,” and, of course, Ware’s JORDAN WELLINGTON LINT. For DeForge, Ware and Nilsen, those weren’t the first works I’d read by them, but they immediately struck me as peaks.

JIMMY CORRIGAN (I haven’t read any PEANUTS. No, yeah, I know, I will eventually.) (I actually do have the book of the first two years, because someone was selling it for pretty cheap, but that doesn’t count.)

The answer to the first question is “by way of elimination.” The more you read, the more you can delineate your own boundaries, the more you can determine what excites you and what repels you (and what lies in-between). This changes over time, of course, but you retain the memory for reexamination…

This sort of question comes up every so often, and my answer is always “Buddy, I’d read a takeout menu if the right creators were behind it.” I haven’t got any super-strong sentiments for Shakespeare, but if I like a creator I read for that creator.

One of those categories that I simply haven’t read enough of to answer with any confidence.

Haven’t read either in a couple of years now, but I feel comfortable saying SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE and CITY OF GLASS off the dome. I have the Sienkiewicz MOBY DICK in my to-read pile, that’ll probably be good. “Him!” by Opačić & Wostok (after Andrejev, in Stripburger’s MADBURGER anthology) also rocks.

If I’m not interpreting this in the strict sense of ‘the professionals who only do the lettering,’ but in the broader ‘people who do lettering, even just in their own work,’ I say Chris Ware and cede the remaining five slots. (That’s a joke but I need to think about the serious answer.)

Probably gift to someone. Though I haven’t read it in a *long* time, and I suspect I wouldn’t be quite as impressed by it now that I’ve read A Lot more…