My initial feeling about Inktober was that I already drew in ink so I didn’t need a month devoted to it. Even so, I would post a few things every year half-heartedly. This year though, I decided to do the whole thing, using prompts and the whole deal. I’m really busy with work right now, so it’s been kind of …
I’m still figuring out how to describe “Lounger.” A post-apocalyptic dark comedy? A contagion drama? An anti-Walking Dead? Like Beckett rewriting Camus’s The Plague (I wish…)? If you have a suggestion for how to describe it, I’ll take it. Anyway, you can read it at Tapas or at Webtoon.
Martin Vaughn-James, The Cage; 1975. Like many graphic novels that were published before the term even existed, such as Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660, Martin Vaughn-James has created a work that is more akin to a picture book than a comic book. By this I mean that neither Okubo nor Vaughn-James uses multiple panels on a page and both set the text separately …
You can get a pdf from me through Gumroad. Or you can get a digital version through ComiXology.
I first read this book as a scanlation, but Last Gasp has published an official translation. If you know nothing about this book, a quick glance at the cover might be misleading. The soft pastels and open lines may give you the idea that this is a book about the tender and quiet sides of life. This isn’t entirely incorrect, …
Upgrade Soul By Ezra Claytan Daniels The common belief about Frankenstein is that it is a monster story. The focus is on the Creature’s hideousness. This is ironic given the central heart of the novel in which the Creature makes it clear that he wanted to be a benefit to humanity but was denied that option because people looked on …
I needed to order some new Brause 511 nibs, so I decided to get a few others and try them out just for fun. Here’s what I got and what I thought… The Bank of England Ledger Pen is a larger nib. It has a solid feel and reminded me a lot of a G pen, though stiffer than the …
https://tapas.io/episode/1449617 It’s also on Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/lounger/list?title_no=306431 At this point, I think you can get a pretty good idea for the feel of the story. Since I am so bad at labeling things (stemming, most probably, from the fact that I hate labels): what would you call it? Apocalyptic? Dark comedy? Drama? Sci-fi? Also, I’m thinking of playing with a color …
I’ve been publishing “Lounger” on Tapas as I’ve been working on it. We’re now up to page 25. I’ve also decided to put the story up on Line Webtoon to try out the site and see how it compares to Tapas.
Since I had two new books out this year, This Wasn’t the Plan and The Lost Cause of Poetry, I decided that it might be time to do some cons again. I hadn’t done a con since the sad little APE back in September of 2017, and not since 2014 before that when I did the TCAF. So I applied …