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Since the comic book is on hold, this is now a chaos tumblr. I will post Things of All Sorts. Comic book updates @podicomic on Instagram and podicomic.tumblr.com

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"Adam and Eve. Temptation" ✦ Mikhail Golubev ☉

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"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

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A fine description of every Hammer Horror film ever made

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willow what are you doing

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when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).

Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.

I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.

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Published!

Think Equal invited @artofsuri and I to tell the fantastic and important story of Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala - the first Lankan to summit Everest. Copies are now available at Think Equal's Colombo office. It'll be headed to schools island wide this month and hopefully a few bookshops, too.

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This Is A Box

That @artofsuri has been making neat stuff again: she held the Creating Heroines pop-up stall last month where visitors could drop in and create a heroine. The she made a zine as part of a collaborative art project with the British Council’s literature team! You can download the free zine here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13qPYRXlPvuIDKiNTkcBs5_lNOYQnzG1K/view

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We’re in Pxp!

Still can’t quite believe our luck - @HassanOE who runs the fantastically informative Strip Panel Naked accepted Metta Helmet for publication in the newest edition of PanelxPanel! It’s a mere $2.50 and the comics criticism is very, very good. It really is the best comics crit magazine out there. If you work in or want to understand comics in more depth, you should pick up a copy here: https://gumroad.com/l/PXPNO7

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Please to enjoy this haiga made from a packet of cigarettes. Text and collage material came from a single packet. @artofsuri refused to smoke the entire contents before making the collage because she is a spoilsport.

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A new thing @artofsuri and I are playing with: choose a single sheet from a newspaper; make a visual haiku (haiga!) using only words and images from the page.  

@artofsuri insists on calling these ‘Haicuts’, but this must not be tolerated.

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Honourable Mention!

@artofsuri and I entered the annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition and did pretty well for two noobs.

The full issue is out now: https://prunejuice.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/pj-231.pdf

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Kirkus Reviews on Elements: Fire!

Tough love from Kirkus reviews.

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Elements won an Ignatz!

Elements: Fire, edited by @neekaneeks won the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology! @artofsuri and I have a comic in it called Metta Helmet. Taneka was a wise and understanding editor and it’s a hell of a thrill to have been a part of this. Big hugs to our fellow contributors.

The Editor-in-Chief of @comicsbeat has a thorough rundown here:

http://www.comicsbeat.com/the-2017-ignatz-awards-monsters-and-ferris-win-two/

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Pencils are inks

@artofsuri is refining her process and this is what the new pencils look like. We’re quickly learning that when you work on something for years, as you improve in your craft, you sometimes have to go back and revisit the old work, rearrange the furniture or, you know, tear down the building and start again…

We may have to shift publication date, but we’re hoping it’ll be worth the wait. The pages are coming along nicely. More updates, soon : )  

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Isuri’s on a Top Ten list (again)

What a nice write-up from these folk:

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/sri-lanka/articles/10-sri-lankan-artists-you-should-know/