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On Fridays I sometimes make Science Friday comics for my uncle- this is one of them

Sally Madden's Gray Is Not a Color, published by Retrofit. I think my favorite Retrofit comic of 2012, tied with John Martz's.

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I recently moved to a new office and found a bunch of old comix sketchbooks- I tried to throw them away but my husband said NO.

This comic was in one of the books- it is a story my friend Sandra told me on a long car ride.

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From some short adaptations I did of bits from Kahlil Gibran's The Madman for The Graphic Canon, vol. 3. We got our contributors' copies in the mail the other day, so it's probably out soon. Also featuring the cross-country section of Lolita as adapted by Sally, and a bunch more other stuff besides.

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summer colors

Illustration for a story about a trebuchet competition.

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Five outfits from TCAF, drawn from memory

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We’re at table B-12. See y’all at TCAF

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Webcomic Wednesday: Road of Knives by Shawn Cheng, Matt Wiegle, Nick DiGenova, and Zak Smith

Equal parts collaborative comic and arty party game in which the sole Calvinball-style rule is “create mayhem,” Road of Knives is less a story than an ongoing event.

Back in 2006, artists Shawn Cheng and Zak Smith (likely the only artist who’s both exhibited in the Whitney Biennial and maintains a must-read RPG blog, Playing D&D with Porn Stars) began battling one another with art. One artist would draw a monster, the other would draw a new monster attacking that monster, the first would draw the progress of the battle, and so on. And so on. And so on. It’s now 2013, artists Matt Wiegle (replacing Smith as Cheng’s main opponent) and Nick DiGenova have been drafted into the fray, and the battle continues.

Taken a page at a time, Road of Knives is easily enjoyed as a showcase for the detail-driven art of its participants, for their inventive and almost fractal approach to creature design, and for their shared facility for both eerie atmosphere and kinetic combat. But when read as a “story,” tracing the drawings from one artist’s contribution to the next (that’s Wiegle and Cheng in tandem above, for example), new values emerge: a wild sense of humor rooted in totally unexpected shifts in the action (you never know when we’ll be whisked away to another region or even dimension, where some new creature or character is observing the action through dark sorcery, only to be attacked itself and start the cycle anew); a perhaps unintentional but still inescapable sense that life is governed by the arbitrary and capricious whims of a “Duck Amuck”-style demiurge; and the meta-message, expressed through the implicit trust between the participants, that the way forward is to have faith in your fellow travelers not to fuck things up.

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Pro Tip: Next time (nest time) hard boil the eggs first, too scary with raw eggs. Photos taken by Matt Wiegle.

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Eggs by Sally.

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Drawings for upcoming window display at Desert Island.

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I used to draw items walking from right to left for money

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From the new Partyka tumblr

I can't go to this or be in it or do anything, but maybe you should if you have affection for Bob Ross like I do.

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Announcing The Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor Volume One: The United States, edited by Lauren Barnett & Nathan Bulmer. Check out that stunning cover art by comics wizard Joseph Lambert.

Featuring funny comics by Ian Andersen, Lauren Barnett, Bort, Box Brown, Nathan Bulmer, Nikki Burch, Anne Emond, Madéleine Flores, Zac Gorman, KC Green, Dustin Harbin, Sam Henderson, Martha Keavney, Patt Kelley, Jeff Lok, Jane Mai, Phil McAndrew, Dakota McFadzean, Maré Odomo, Liz and Jimmy Reed, Noah Van Sciver, Alex Schubert, Sam Sharpe, Grant Snider, Sam Spina, Nathan Stapley, Julia Wertz, and Matt Weigle.

We’ll be debuting the book at TCAF, and it’ll be available at the Hic & Hoc store and elsewhere soon thereafter.

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I've got a one-pager in this. Also I'll be at TCAF!

Esther Pearl Watson, Romeo & Juliet

From Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's "Superthunderstingcar"

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