Archive for 2009
September 18th, 2009
Howard Cruse, the king o’ queer comics, has this great new book out. From Headrack to Claude is a collection of his comics spanning 33 years. There’s amazing stuff here, from his underground series Barefootz, to the classic stories he did for Gay Comics, (If you’ve never read “Dirty Old Lovers!” or “Cabbage Patch Clone,” these alone are worth the price of the book!) to recent pieces he did for Boy Trouble and Young Bottoms in Love. It’s an valuable trove of cartoon history and you can buy it here at Lulu.com.
September 14th, 2009
If you’ve never caught one of Ivan Coyote’s live performances, I’m sorry for you. But you can get a free download here of the studly storyteller’s book Loose Ends. Plus a discount on all her other books. If you don’t know her stuff, check it out. She’s a gentleman and a sweetheart. And spins a smart yarn. Here’s a little sample of a scene Read the rest of this entry »
September 10th, 2009
1. Well, at any rate she made me this amazing pair of pajamas. Yes, the statuesque sexpert, all around sex-positive goddess, erotica anthologist, and founder of On Our Backs just felt moved to sew me some flannel PJs, as a gift. She let me pick out the flannel pattern and I chose these grizzly bears. I am inexpressibly moved by this kind gesture.
If you don’t frequent Susie’s blog already, check it out. Also, she has an awesome audio show that’s actually called In Bed with Susie Bright, on audible.com. You can check out some free episodes here. The one with Betty Dodson is particularly good.
2. Remember the dickwad congressman who shouted “You lie!” at the president during last night’s rather moving health care speech? You can make a donation to his opponent here.
3. And look! My brother and his wife got in their local newspaper for keeping their kids out of school to hear Obama’s talk to schoolkids–which the local schools had decided not to play live to students on Tuesday.
September 7th, 2009
I know I haven’t been posting much. I’ve been working, though. And doing other things. Here’s the two cords of wood that got delivered in July, all stacked. And that’s the garlic Hol and I planted last November. And that’s a jar of peaches Holly just canned. (don’t actually click those links, or you’ll go to some very long dull videos.)
I guess I’m all ready for winter.
Oh, and today I hiked up Mt. Mansfield with Hol. We got almost to the forehead, but turned around because Hol’s boot fell apart. The sole came completely off. She cleverly kept it in place with the lace, though, till we got back down.
Here’s some guy’s blog which explains the physiognomy of Mt. Mansfield. Personally, I don’t see a human face when I look at this mountain. I think the native Abenaki had it right—they called it Mountain with the head of a moose. Doesn’t it look like a long, rambling antlery moosehead?
September 7th, 2009
We just upgraded to the latest version of wordpress, and in the process lost some recent changes to the site. We’ll get it sorted out soon. Isn’t this a sad, generic look? Here, I’ll try to spice it up with a picture of Dr. Winnicott.
September 1st, 2009
Today’s the day same sex marriage becomes legal in Vermont. Those crazy (and crazy is a very mild descriptor in this case) Phelpses are in town to let us know we’re going to hell, the lot of us. My intrepid pal Lauren Ober, who writes for our local alt weekly Seven Days, is following them around and blogging about them all day. Below is a pic she took this morning. You can follow her blog posts here.
August 26th, 2009
This great book just came out, A.D.: NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE DELUGE. Josh Neufeld, the artist, has been running installments of it on Smithmag.com for the past several years. It’s pretty amazing. Josh is one of a passel of cartoonists, including me, David Rees, Jason Little, and David Heatley, who all went to Oberlin College. But not at the same time. Or maybe they all went there together, I don’t know. I’m way older. Jeez, I’m so old that I forget if there are others…I think there are some other folks I’m forgetting.
As if the aftermath of Katrina were not a vast enough topic, here are some folks making a graphic novel out of the Torah. (Sample page above.) Here’s a video of Sharon Rosenzweig and Aaron Freeman talking about their Comic Torah project.
And here’s Best Erotic Comics 2009, which includes an old DTWOF strip of mine with a rather mild sex scene in it.
August 18th, 2009
I have lived five minutes from this phenomenal swimming site for thirteen years, and this afternoon is the first time I’ve ever been to it. Hol dragged me away from my computer and here I am immersed in Joiner Brook.
Look, all the kids are jumping lower down. Hol & I have gravitated to the old peoples’ pool up above, where everyone’s smoking and drinking Coors Lite.
It’s awesome.
August 5th, 2009
I’ve been subscribing to The Nation for over twenty years. For many of those, I saved the freakin’ back issues—stacks and stacks of these flimsy newsprint magazines with post-its sticking out Read the rest of this entry »
July 25th, 2009
I’m whiling away the time at the big Pride dance here in Burlington by blogging on my phone. I don’t really dance, I don’t feel like drinking, and this eighties cover band is playing Jesse’s Girl so loud it’s making my nose itch. Now I’m outside with my friend who is also named Alison while she has a cigarette.
