Re-upping link to "About Face"

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A quick, perfunctory post amidst this massive uprising against white supremacy, police brutality, and fascism:

There’s been a massive increase in interest in my viral comics essay “About Face” (addressing the relationships between military/paramilitary aesthetic and apolitical consumer goods to normalize fascism and exploit fragile masculinity), so here’s a direct link.

Thanks to everyone at Popula for believing in this essay— and thanks to everyone who’s read it and used it to contribute to our urgent national discussion and struggles! <3

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She-Ra quarantine art!

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Here’s some She-Ra art I drew yesterday, after processing the series finale for a few days. Noelle Stevenson and crew made such a wonderful show— it deserves to be a generational touchstone. I aspire to make something so grand yet personal, so deeply human. She-Ra forever.

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Quarantine drawing-- Storm.

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Getting back in practice amidst the pandemic, shaking off the cobwebs— here’s a Storm drawing I did yesterday.

One of my chronic bad habits while drawing: I draw at too flat of an angle relative to the paper, which gives me a distorted view while working. Despite how pleased I was with this drawing, as soon as I finished it I realized Storm’s head is way too big.

Always hold up your work to examine it head-on, my cartoonist friends!

New quarantine illustrations from COME AGAIN.

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Quarantine fun: I made this piece yesterday as a relationship guide to the crew from Come Again and their well-intentioned, loving, super messed-up, horned-out dynamics.

I miss these characters and their world.

Here’s to the therapeutic value of making art when we’re cut off from each other. Here’s to remaining open.

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Quarantine X-Men.

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After helping my kid finish organizing her school report on ocelots, I rewarded myself by drawing Silvestri-era Psylocke and Wolverine. Gotta try to keep those inking chops during this months-long lockdown.

If you don’t follow me on social media, you can find me on Instagram and Twitter.

Stay disciplined, stay isolated, and keep your eyes on the prize— we’ve gotta remove this fascist from the White House at all costs. <3

Still here amidst the pandemic.

Hi everybody— I hope you’re doing well, maintaining your health and sanity, and most important, following the health/isolation protocols with sustained discipline. This authoritarian regime will not save us. Only we can save ourselves— and the lives of millions depend on that sustained discipline.

Please, please, please: wash your hands, cover your cough, stay home, physically isolate from other people, and keep surfaces clean. This isn’t the middle of the crisis— we’re barely at the beginning, and are facing a likely incomprehensible death toll which may reach into the hundreds of thousands in the US alone.

Love and solidarity to everyone.

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In book news, I have a few new projects gearing up which I can’t discuss yet— but soon enough!

Last month, I finished a new book (title forthcoming with a larger announcement)— through two years of work, our social and political reality has changed so quickly that I often felt it couldn’t possibly be published soon enough to keep up.

Now, even 2019’s sense of urgency and uncertainty seems antiquated. Some passages have very meanings now (just a month later)— specifically, a central theme on the urgency of sustained physical protest in a new reality that virtually removes its possibilty.

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Stay vigilant, stay mindful, think of your neighbors (in the biggest, worldly sense possible)— and we will get through this.

Bloomington IN: talk/Q&A/art exhibit on February 20th!

Bloomington friends: on Thursday, February 20th (John Lewis’ birthday!), I’ll be giving a talk/Q&A about my work at the I Fell Gallery (415 W. 4th, next to Rainbow Bakery). There will also be a one-night-only exhibit of my original artwork spanning the last two decades!

Here’s a link to the same info on my events page.

7pm, free, all as a part of the Indiana Remixed series. See you there!

(Adding this note here, because I know that a certain local crust-punk with a long history of sexual assault, domestic violence, and physical intimidation keeps tabs on me via the internet: you are not welcome at my events. Ever. Do not show up.)

new photozine-- PARTING SHOTS #1

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I’ve always wanted to release a collection of my amateur band photography, so I finally made it happen as a zine— here’s Parting Shots #1, featuring a bunch of photos I took between 1995-2018. This mostly documents underground punk-related bands, but also branches out into a few mainstream artists I’ve had the privilege of seeing. All point-and-shoot, from the hand-me-down 110 camera I started with to my current Sony RX100 II.

Volume One clocks in at a whopping 84 pages, and I expect to release a second volume in a few months. You can order it here, or in combination with Fluke #17 here. This is a super-limited release, and I doubt I’ll make more than 100 copies total.

One Reason. Caravan, Memphis TN, 2003.

One Reason. Caravan, Memphis TN, 2003.

Fugazi. Malcolm X Park, Washington DC, 1996.

Fugazi. Malcolm X Park, Washington DC, 1996.

Haim. Egyptian Room, Indianapolis IN, 2016.

Haim. Egyptian Room, Indianapolis IN, 2016.

Fat Shadow. Bloomington IN, 2011.

Fat Shadow. Bloomington IN, 2011.

TWO DEAD book release & video of panel discussion!

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Thanks to everyone who came out in Little Rock and Bloomington to make the release of TWO DEAD such a success!

Writer Van Jensen and I had a panel discussion (and “Anatomy of a Scene” walk-through) on book release day, moderated by Jay Jennings as a part of Oxford American’s “South Words” series— here is video of the whole thing.

Thanks to everyone who braved the cold and rain last Saturday to grab books from colorist Erin Tobey and me at Vintage Phoenix Comics— Erin and I have worked on-and-off with each other for almost 20 years, and we’re both proud to’ve been a visual team on this book.

You can order signed/sketched copies of any of my books directly from me here.

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