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-from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1895

-from Mystery In Space #10

-Frank King, November 30, 1915

Frank King, June 2, 1910

This thoughtful and pointlessly melancholy man has been living for many years, by now, in the basement, because the house that rose above it...

The Spider Spoke is one of my favorite new minicomics, and #3 is the best yet. I was really inspired by this one. Tomu Smith can be reache...

Chopin/Charlie Kaufman/RPG video game fans rejoice: "Eternal Sonata [for the Xbox 360] follows the adventures of famed composer Frederi...

This came in the mail.

I made this zine to inspire myself to finish other things. 48 pages $2 Should be at MOCCA next weekend, but I won't. For sale soon at my...

Here's the original. Looking at it closer, I think I missed some details. I couldn't resist it.

During our last presidential election I made a vow (wrote it down in my vow/sketchbook) that if Bush won I would give up following political...

Earlier this year I re-read Pragmatism by William James. It's not James at his best, but it's one of the main things for which he...

Oh, Hans , it's true--we can get through 3 volumes of the Friedell's Kulturgeschichte, appreciating its idiosyncracies, its fine ane...

Hot new blog . Dave Kiersh celebrates some comics stories from the 70s and 80s.

Today on the way home from breakfast I found a turtle in the road. To save him from being run over, I put him in my kitchen for a while. I...

can be found here .

One of our favorites lately, Juana Molina here on Episode 3 of Woebot TV.

A middle-aged Glenn stuck in traffic, an illustration for a story in the New Yorker . Article here and a Herr Ziffer identifies with it here...

"When I came back from that trip and sat down to do King-Cat 44—it was probably the "Chicken Lady" or the "Shovel Lady...

Those noisy harbingers of doom in last weeks NYTimes Magazine, and here Stephen Frug writes about our feeble attempts at comixifying a sta...

I'll be at APE this weekend, and Comix Experience Fri., 5-7.

and see here .

We'll be shutting down the Cat Shop soon. More details to come and checks in the mail. Looking for new ways to squander our time in a ...

1. " What interests us here is Lorenzo's approach to narrative. Although his chief subject is a Pietà —and not the representation ...

Ozick in the new (4/07) Harper's: "...what was missing, and has long been missing, in American letters: criticism that explains, bo...

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Sorry no updates. I've been metablogging in my mind.

Filboid on Gluyas .

The Beguiling has a few more of my pages up for sale . In the next months I'll be sending them many more so watch that space, if you...

I'm posting here b/c for some reason I can't post to the drawing club blog anymore. The theme was hobos.

A species of moth drinks tears from the eyes of sleeping birds using a fearsome proboscis shaped like a harpoon, scientists have revealed. T...

These'll be in " Famous Fictional " next Friday, Jan. 5. at Mad Art Gallery. Some St. Louis artists were asked to do 2 "...

The other night at the signing at Quimby's I said during the Q&A session some nonsense about "you can't think yourself in...

I'll be signing books at Star Clipper Comics next Wednesday December 6 and at Quimby's in Chicago on Thursday December 7 with Mr. ...

Though this goes against absolutely everything I believe in and hold dear in this sad sorry world, I'm going to insult your intelligence...

-from "The Story of the Great Plains" which is part of a series of "the story of..." books, including "The Story of...