Category Writing

Kevin Huizenga’s lyric comics essays

Kevin Huizenga is one of my 3 favorite makers of comics these days. His methods mix accessible pictures, science, philosophy, history, and autobiography all together in a form much like David (Reality Hunger) Shields describes here:
The lyric essay asks what happens when an essay begins to behave less like an essay and more like a [...]

Thema Golden on art’s purpose at TED

From the website:
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The “post-black” artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture — and about the meaning of art itself.

I Like Writing on the Computer

Not all the time, and not for everything. But for one particular reason, I really do like writing on the computer.
I can easily back it up. Sometimes I wish I had everything backed-up.

Resistance Loves a Day Like This

Resistance loves a day like this. It’s unexpectedly cold, rainy, grey, dull. I didn’t sleep well and my brain feels like mush. It’s 10am, but it feels like 8am, or maybe 8pm. There’s no appointment forcing me to get-up. I really need to do laundry. I hate searching for matching socks. My most weather-appropriate [...]

Finally, This is For You

I should’ve put this up before, huh? Anyway, here it is, my TedXColumbus performance.

Ralph Bakshi says “Don’t Wait!”

Are you an artist, entrepreneur, start-up dude, or anyone just trying to start something? You need to watch this Ralph Bakshi video. Be forewarned, he might destroy you.

Story Idea:Deja Vu

guy gets deja vu fairly regularly, and in very intense, specific way. Suddenly, he realizes that he’s in a sequence of actions and impressions, images, and viewpoints that he’s experienced before. Sometimes there are even associated memories of bits of knowledge. He’ll set a book down and feel it. Deja vu.

Thanks, Austin

“32 Statements About Writing Poetry”
by Marvin Bell
1. Every poet is an experimentalist.
2. Learning to write is a simple process: read something, then write something; read something else, then write something else. And show in your writing what you have read.
The list continues if you read on.
Thanks, Mssr. B., for a wonderful hour or so this [...]

Sammy B.

Samuel Beckett
But one remark from that afternoon at La Closerie des Lilas stands out from the others, and not only does it reveal much about Beckett the man, it speaks to the dilemma all writers must live with: eternal doubt, the inability to judge the worth of what one has created. During the conversation, he [...]

Comic life

More drawing today, and more ripping off Kevin H.
First I did this.

Looks just like my life, huh?
Anyway, then I did this one, which portrays a much more likely situation.

I’m pretty fond of those.
Then I attempted to draw an entire page. Woah. It was a lot harder than I anticipated. But, I got through it. You [...]