Category: Comics
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Behind the Screens
One afternoon, Father Power pointed up at a red light to the left of the altar and said that when that light was glowing, God was in the house – it was powered by Him. I looked up at it, a red glowing bulb in an ornate brass cage, and asked why – if God…
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Pieces of the People We Love
In preparation for a short post on The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell, I’m revisiting some of my earlier writing on Campbell’s work. This time out, I’ve republished what I had to say about The Fate of the Artist on I Love Comics back in 2006. But wait – when you’re going to post…
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No Part is Saved
Like its predecessor, this post was originally written in September 2007 for a blog that no longer exists. I’m republishing it here in preparation for a post on The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell. ‘Crash, roar, smash, plunge. The artist’s journey finishes with him washed ashore on the desert island of his own mental…
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Flowers in a Foreground – Eddie Campbell, Frank Miller and the art of everyday life
I’m revisiting some of my earlier writing on Eddie Campbell’s work in preparation for a short post on his latest book. This piece was originally written in September 2007 for a site that no longer exists. I later re-tooled for an early LGH comic I’m now actively embarrassed by – the two text pieces were…
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LGH portal #4
Writing about Rammstein made me think about this video I made to promote my LGH comics a few years back. At the request of artist and pal Jules Scheele, I once re-did this video so it featured Rammstein’s ‘Keine Lust’ instead of my own ‘Scary Neighbours’ on the soundtrack. I lost that version when I…
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Tie Me Up, I’m Yours
CW: Hot Filth! (Jules Scheele, self-published, 2022) The cover to this zine promises is that the content will be “18+ explicit”, and Tie Me Up, I’m Yours makes good on this promise again and again, with a series of erotic images depicting a crew of lush queers in what someone only slightly more emotionally repressed…
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Future Crimes #2
I put the second issue of my Future Crimes anthology up for sale yesterday. Unlike the first issue, which was mostly a way for me to refresh and release unpublished work, this issue is all about collaboration. The first and longest piece in the book is Uncle Frank, which was drawn by my friend Shaky…
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There Are Other Alphabets – on the fall of Roe and dirt bikes
Browsing twitter the other day, I found myself getting annoyed at someone who asked for an explanation of a comic strip Eleanor Davis had shared. Drawn for the New York Times, the strip itself covers a journey to and from a protest for abortion rights that had been undertaken in the company of a small…
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