During a time when approximately everyone in the world is having anxiety and depression forced upon them, Tatiana Gill has posted her “Head Meds,” a personal history of brain balance, for free reading. (The reader seems to be optimised for tablets or other vertical-mode screens, NB.) Maybe right now is not the best time for […]
Category Archives: seattle
Face / Off, reworked for the ’90s
Leslie Stein had a fever dream at The New Yorker a few weeks ago, imagining a reboot of the action-cum-camp-fantasia Face / Off, directed by John Woo, with a different pairing of icons than the movie’s Nic Cage and John Travolta. Her depiction of Seattle brings all the authenticity of the source material, too. […]
CATS IN COMICS: somewhat spacy
CATS IN COMICS: “A Menace To Society” by Peter Bagge. Subtitled “Sick people who smoke pot to get better…and our government’s tireless efforts to stop them!,” and originally published by Reason magazine in August 2005, the strip was Bagge’s cartoon journalist investigation into the clashes between medical marijuana programs and federal illegality of cannabis. About […]
Short Run round-up: POME
The editors of POME zine tabled at Short Run on the weekend, and editor Jenny Mott has published a report-in-comics on their weekend. Short Run’s Saturday focus enables time for general tourism, and they pack a wide spread of the city into that second day.
Short Run round-up: SROB
The Seattle Review Of Books has a write-up on Saturday’s comix fest so thorough that Review supremo Paul Constant must have been reading purchases as he was walking home afterwards. Full reviews are still promised to come! But there was something different about Short Run this year: it was packed. Every Short Run in the […]
a zine a day: Sarah Mirk
In 1990, Scott McCloud invented the “24-hour comic” as a lifehack for himself and fellow slow cartoonist Steve Bissette: a challenge to write and draw a complete 24-page comic in 24 hours. Portland cartoonist Sarah Mirk is leaving that kind of productivity in the dust by generating an eight-page minicomic every day of 2019, and […]
girlhero x shrimpy
One month ahead of this year’s small-press festival Short Run, attending and behind-the-scenesing Seattle cartoonist Megan Kelso has interviewed nearby Canadian guest Marc Bell for the festival’s website. In a fairly brief email chat, they manage to address process, creativity, collaboration and the prospect of continuing to generate art in the face of the physical […]
CATS IN COMICS: nerrrrrrds
CATS IN COMICS: I’m guessing that artist Alan Robinson added the cat to the life of present-day former girlfriend of one of the time-zapped 1980s teens in writer Paul Constant’s Planet Of The Nerds series, as it only makes a couple of cameos, and frankly displays no significant character development. these panels from Planet Of […]
CATS IN COMICS: Twice Sold Tales
CATS IN COMICS: The second-hand bookshop Twice Sold Tales is a fixture on Capitol Hill in Seattle, and probably a deathtrap for asthmatics and allergics due to the several cats that live inside. I pop in when passing to see if any of them happen to be needing pats, and the cartoonist of Seattle Walk […]
CATS IN COMICS: Kimya & Clyde
CATS IN COMICS: Musician and artist Kimya Dawson and roadie and artist Clyde Petersen have a joint exhibition at the Party Hat Gallery in Pioneer Square, Seattle, right now. Clyde’s part includes a series of cartoons about the punk touring life titled Merch & Destroy: Tour Tales, including a couple of cat appearances. Kimya’s kid-friendly […]