Comments on: on the road

By: That Fuzzy Bastard

That Fuzzy Bastard — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:19:56 +0000

I’ve hated Spain’s stuff ever since I first discovered Zap comics—like Crumb, or S. Clay Wilson, he always struck me as an incredibly crappy writer covering it up with ultra-detailed artwork (Binky Brown ftw!). And yeah, I remember the Young Lust strip you’re thinking of, and it was indeed gross on any number of levels.

For those asking in this thread, it was about “The Misogynist”, a dude who beds lotsa babes, all unaware of the others. At the end, he’s confronted by a stereotypical dyke, who asks why he seems to ignore the very existence of women like her, and responds “‘Cause a dog like you is unworthy of touching my dick.”

It’s actually not quite as bad as I make it sound here—there’s some kind of confused attempt at irony going on—but Spain is just such a New Left dunderhead, with his obsession with the rebelliousness of machismo, that he can’t make his point, or make a funny.

It’s a shame, actually, that AB’s dislike of conflict made her unwilling to confront him at the panel—it could’ve been a really great moment in New Vs. Old comics,in which the ’80s generation decisively buries the Zap auteurs. But I guess Oedipal conflict isn’t really AB’s style anyway, and god love ‘er for it.

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:57:29 +0000

Alison- thanks for coming back to Chicago! I hope you see more of the town than just the O’Hare terminal this time around…

By: Garth / Haley

Garth / Haley — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:55:47 +0000

Has anyone read Erika Moen’s ‘I’m scared of black people’ strip? It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. Nice video though – I like the response to the question about inspiration – ‘inner compulsion’, ‘need to represent’, I feel something similar about blurring genres. Films and Comics mashed together! Poems and films mashed together! The film script and the cartoon mashed together! Hours of fun.

By: Ginjoint

Ginjoint — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:14:47 +0000

Ellen, that Savage column (or rather, the legislation) is scary as hell. I just spent a couple days at my mother’s house, which is about 3 hours from Chicago. On my drive home, I was trying to find an NPR station on the radio (the cats cry if I try to play anything other than jazz, classical, or NPR, no joke), and I came across a fundie station. Morbid curiosity made me listen to a talk show in progress.

They seemed to like using the word “evil” to describe Barack Obama. Evil. The whole thing was very paranoid and loaded with misinformation. There was this bizarre disconnect between their self-assured voices and what they were actually saying. I finally gave up.

Ksbel, I’m glad to hear of progress with the pup!

By: Riotllama

Riotllama — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:57:41 +0000

I have to admit to not having been to the blog in over a month, mostly because i’ve been traveling.
I’m back now and posting because I had a visit from AB in a dream last night. (Stop slavering. I see you.)
I was living in a ring shaped dirt pile (think castle battlements without the castle in the middle)with a group of my friends and we were being attacked by people who lived in RVs (yes it is all very Mad Max) and I was sneaking out to a market to try and steal us some food and Alison was in the store and helped me escape by saying that I was an Official Grocery Carrier and that we were filling an order for some rich person. She gave me a very silly hat to wear that involved pom poms as a uniform and then FLEW ME BACK TO THE BURROW IN HER BIPLANE!

I was amelia earhart for halloween and have still been wearing pieces of that costume for a while so that makes sense, but the rest of it? rediculous! anyway..thanks for helping me escape dream jail, alison.

By: ocean c.

ocean c. — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:25:35 +0000

aww, look at those cute matching olive green lesbians in the first picture!

By: DrSteve

DrSteve — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:05:20 +0000

That link isn’t it… any one seen that video? Really nice to watch her work.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:28:50 +0000

Greeting from the northern Europe.
A year ago I asked some book publishers if Fun House was goin to be translated. One of the claimed that it would be translated in Finnish within a year, were those suckers lying to me? or has there been a delay?

And if they do have plans on making a translation (hopefully a good one) is there a chanse to see you here? There are schools for cartooning, co-op for women cartoonists and several festivals that would probably love to have you.

By: Susanna

Susanna — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:58:54 +0000

Oh goodness I must have been tired last night, to have spelled “paid” wrong….

By: Sketchy

Sketchy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:58:57 +0000

I was wondering, what exactly was lesbophobic about the Young Lust comic? Not to say that it ISN’T lesbophobic; I’ve never read it and have no frame of reference. The few images I’ve managed to find on Google Image Search look hideous anyway, so I probably wouldn’t have picked it up even if I’d seen it.

Also, is there any chance you’d visit the other Portland anytime soon?