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“Eleanor” by Eric Drooker. Published in Drawn & Quarterly #2 (vol. 2), Dec. 1994, Drawn & Quarterly Publications.

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Watch Todd Haynes' short film Dottie Gets Spanked

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Read "Fictional Exits," a very short story by Alasdair Gray

“Fictional Exits” by Alasdair Gray Because of a mistake (though I do not know whose) someone was shut in a windowless room with nothing to look at but a door which could only be opened from outside, a lavatory pan and a wall poster showing the face of the nation’s ruler. After imagining a great many dealings with this official the prisoner tried to find pleasure in a landscape behind the face.…

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Mass-market Monday | Berton Roueché's Eleven Blue Men

Eleven Blue Men, Berton Roueché, 1953. Berkley Medallion Books (1968). No cover artist or designer credited. 191 pages.

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A panel from “Credo” by Richard Sala. Published in Drawn & Quarterly #2 (vol. 1), Oct. 1990, Drawn & Quarterly Publications.

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El Esquilado Dormido -- Robin Ironside

El Esquilado Dormido, c. 1965 by Robin Ironside (1912-1965)

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Watch Jon Moritsugu's scuzzy sublime cult classic Terminal USA

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Simulated stag | From Gene Wolfe's novel Peace

And so will I search now for my knife, thus getting the exercise Dr. Van Ness prescribes. It was large, and stamped with the words “Boy Scout.” The scales were of simulated black staghorn, bringing to mind (at least to mine) the image of a simulated stag, his horns held proudly as those of any elm-deer, ranging the forest among the now-waking trees, trees whose leaves are dying with the summer in…

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Mass-market Monday | Gene Wolfe's Peace

Peace, Gene Wolfe, 1975. Berkley Books  (1982). No cover artist or designer credited. 246 pages. The uncredited cover artist is obviously and well-documentedly Gahan Wilson. Maybe a hundred pages into Gene Wolfe’s 1975 novel Peace it struck me that this book is, like, an American post-modernist classic that we would now talk about alongside novels of writers like Pynchon, Barth, Reed, Coover,…

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A page from Congo Chromo by Olivier Schrauwen. Published in Mome v. 17, Winter 2010, Fantagraphics Books.

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A panel from “Pray for Pianoland” by Brian Blomerth. Published in NOW #4, Sept. 2018, Fantagraphics Books.

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The Godmother -- Walton Ford

The Godmother, 2023 by Walton Ford (b. 1960)

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The Underground Chud -- Nicholas Roerich

The Underground Chud, 1913 by Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947)

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Watch Robert Downey's satirical surrealist western Greaser's Palace

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Read "The Secret of Evil," a very short story by Roberto Bolaño

“The Secret of Evil” by Roberto Bolaño translated by Chris Andrews This story is very simple, although it could have been very complicated. Also, it’s incomplete, because stories like this don’t have an ending. It’s night in Paris, and a North American journalist is sleeping. Suddenly the telephone rings, and someone asks in English, with an unidentifiable accent, for Joe A. Kelso. Speaking,…

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A panel from “Hide & Watch Me” by Joe Kimball. Published in Mome #8, Summer 2007, Fantagraphics Books.

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It happened that the ship, gaining her port, was moored to the dock on a Fourth of July | From Herman Melville's Israel Potter

It happened that the ship, gaining her port, was moored to the dock on a Fourth of July; and half an hour after landing, hustled by the riotous crowd near Faneuil Hall, the old man narrowly escaped being run over by a patriotic triumphal car in the procession, flying a broidered banner, inscribed with gilt letters: “BUNKER-HILL 1775. GLORY TO THE HEROES THAT FOUGHT!” It was on Copps’ Hill, within…