Here’s the final installment of Harper’s Ferry 1859! After the momentous events of this issue, a certain somebody continues on to Texas and gets involved in some of the troubles down there. So there may be a next chapter someday, and if there is it’s called Texas 1860. I’m researching it as we speak. If this last story is any indication, it’ll ( Read more... )

This is the chapter where it all comes together.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qe4FveLfE5nebgsfJl0nuECf1su5kbUGCqQ7VsSjcAk/pub

Radio Free North Hollywood.

Here is part two.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13BSB8TsaHtXMMuVKetSHmumM4RNBrjkksqhaZPqBG9s/edit?usp=sharing

So the whole thing totals in the 200-300 page range, which is of course completely beyond my ability to ( Read more... )

Here is part one of the completed, edited, fully ready-to-draw script that I wrote about John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry, the incident that (more-or-less) triggered the Civil War (in the parts of the country that were not already at war). I started this in April or May of 2013 and put the final touches on the edits this week.

Read more... )

I’m worried about nature just declaring open war on us. After we encountered about a hundred ticks in one weekend and even dogs are getting sick from Lyme disease, I just don’t know what the fuck. I don’t know what’s going on or how to keep safe from it. Depressing shit.

We can’t kill nature, but we sure can make it mean.

Radio Free North ( Read more... )

On my fortieth birthday I saw a flock of turkey buzzards fly by. I think there were fifty or sixty of them. I think they were flying south.

After a while, one single one of them flew back.

If that’s an omen, I thought, that’s fine. One turkey buzzard is usually enough.

Radio Free North Hollywood.

So this gig that I got, drawing the comic Monomania, that’s just one incarnation of this story. There are a lot of ways that the writers, Mike and Joey, could have gone. A comic was one of the last forms they arrived on. But good things appear when you go in the wrong direction. Creatively, that is. I wouldn’t use that tip to navigate around the ( Read more... )

I can’t watch these Survivor shows without being painfully aware of the camera crew at every moment. You don’t have to worry about carnivores attacking you when you have a bunch of film students driving around your very natural experience in a giant circle.

I wonder what it’s like to be a filmmaker watching these people starve themselves to death ( Read more... )

Favorite anti-liberal slur of all time: Libboloon!

Radio Free North Hollywood.

In college I had one teacher who absolutely believed that Roman Polanski was the greatest director of all time. He believed this so strongly that he made us watch Polanski’s student films. One of them was about two guys who carry a dresser around Poland. The dresser had a mirror on it. The teacher talked about that mirror for months.

I’ve ( Read more... )