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Quotes that Give You Joy

Round 1 Part 4

Quote 5 VS Quote 124

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Voting ended onJan 16

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Quote 5

Fulton Lorings wore a gray uniform decorated with enough brass and buttons and gold braid to make him look like he'd caught fire. He had a sword and pistol buckled over the top of a red sash around his middle. Crimson stripes ran down the sides of his trouser legs and into the boots shiny enough to see yourself in. The stars-and-bars cloth I made for him was wrapped around his face. Everything about him looked lean and razor-edged and magical. My heart ricocheted around inside my rib cage and I found it difficult to locate a breath. Fulton held out a gloved hand.

"Miss Merrell, you look lovely."

Quote 124

– Dark Angel, Robert Kirby

Only book I've ever started reading out of rage just for it to become my favorite book of all time 🩷

As I looked out, a young coyote came slowly out of the trees, delicately lifting and shaking each paw before gingerly putting it down again in the snow. Step, flick, pause ... step, flick, pause.... There was an expression on its face of such great disgust that I laughed. Startled, it looked up and saw me on the porch, and then I swear it sneered at me. It turned slowly on the spot and went back into the trees the way it had come, trying to step in its own tracks, still step-flick-pausing as it went.

– The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly

It's such a joy to see such personality in animals, especially when authors write of such phenomena.

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Really liked this new book RAINBOW REFLECTIONS: BODY IMAGE COMICS FOR QUEER MEN. I’m proud to be a contributor and hope you’ll consider ordering the book here. 

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In this week’s Illustrated PEN, Guest Editor Robert Kirby presents an excerpt from Sunburning by Keiler Roberts.

Kirby writes: In this excerpt from her new book Sunburning (Koyama Press), Keiler Roberts describes the stress of undergoing intensive medical testing for an array of disturbing symptoms. It’s another instantly relatable Roberts story featuring her characteristic emotional directness and wonderfully deadpan wit.

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ERIC KOSTIUK WILLIAMS’ CONDO HEARTBREAK DISCO COMING MAY 2017 "Condo Heartbreak Disco is a Cassandra-like warning of the evils of gentrification and cultural appropriation, rendered in Eric Kostiuk Williams’ swirly, whirly, marvellously morphing graphic matrix. Wise and whimsical, political and personal, freaked out and fabulous, it’s a visionary work by a gifted young cartoonist." — Robert Kirby (QU33R, What’s Your Sign, Girl? and The Shirley Jackson Project)

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Excerpted portraits from a comic I wrote that the great Michael Fahy illustrated: “Notes on 4 Shirley Jackson Archetypes” from my 2016 tribute book THE SHIRLEY JACKSON PROJECT: COMICS INSPIRED BY HER WORK AND LIFE - still available from Ninth Art Press and you know want to get this one - it may well be your cup of stars.

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I drew this comic for a special feature called STATE OF EMERGENCY for PEN Illustrated back at the very end of 2017. It seems like so long ago now, and I hate how seemingly normaiized all this madness has become. Or perhaps we’re just more used to it now, the shock has worn off. In some ways things have been even worse than I thought they’d be but in other ways I feel like progressives are holding our own, stemming some of the damage. 

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More panels from my in-progress graphic novel Marry Me a Little. Bottom line: all the legal nuts and bolts of gettin’ hitched aren’t so romantic.

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More panels from pages 10 & 11 of the first chapter of my in-progress graphic memoir MARRY ME A LITTLE.  If you haven’t figured it out by now, it’s about getting (gay) married when all your life you never expected that to be an actual thing, when all your life you have been an Other and what it’s like when that starts to fall away somewhat. 

It’s an enormously complicated issue, at least for me and my husband, so naturally I have consumed a lot of material on this issue. This section is about watching the 2014 documentary The Case Against 8. 

Much more to come, I hope you’ll keep an eye out! (Plan to have it all done sometime in 2020, by the way - 2 years! Gasp!).