September 16th, 2007
Okay, I’m finding myself in a similar state to the one I was in last spring when I suggested the fateful “open thread” idea. Then I framed it as a concern that an in-group atmosphere on the blog might inhibit newcomers. But now I have a more particular take on the matter.
I’m deeply grateful to everyone who comes here and participates in this conversation. I’m very aware that the blog wouldn’t be here without you. And I’m loathe to inhibit anyone’s expression in any way. But I do feel that when some people post frequently and Read the rest of this entry »
September 14th, 2007
Mike Signorile, Mr. Outing, discusses some interesting details of the new book about Condoleezza Rice. Apparently she owns a home with another woman, a “liberal progressive” filmmaker who used to work with Bill Moyers. Stranger things have happened, I guess. Let’s hope they’re really lovers. That would surely put the kibosh on Rice 2008.
September 7th, 2007
I just saw a movie that could be titled, “What is it like to be a lesbian?” And it’s much more entertaining than the handmade bat documentary I just posted. Read the rest of this entry »
September 7th, 2007
(Click the bat photo and it’ll take you to YouTube.) I’ve been slogging away on my next memoir, which I keep telling people is about my relationship history, and it is, but it’s also about something much more vague that I can’t quite pin down yet. Something to do with subjectivity and the nature of consciousness. I’ve been doing a lot of psychoanalytic and philosophical research which yesterday led me to Read the rest of this entry »
September 4th, 2007
Sharpen your Eagle Mirados. It’s time for school.
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September 2nd, 2007
Once in high school I was doing my homework with an Eagle Mirado pencil. My visiting uncle took note of this. He told me that when he was little, this model of pencil was called a “Mikado,” but that the company had changed the name during World War II. Apparently in a patriotic spasm of Read the rest of this entry »
September 2nd, 2007
1. Cartoonist Ellen Forney is the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s writer-in-residence this month. If you go to her blog, there are links to a great piece she did for the paper about her love affair with her Mercury Cougar, as well as to video of the public talk she gave.
2. Local TV reporter Jack Thurston just won an Excellence in Journalism award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for the segment he did about me last spring. Here I am with him in my office on the day we shot the interview.
3. Another VT cartoonist, James Kochalka, has a kids’ book out. Here he is narrating an animated trailer for it. It would be kind of cool to play around with animation like this. Even with minimal movement, you can get some powerful effects. Like, check out the “die young, stay pretty” video of Ellen Forney using some simple pan & zoom techniques to tell one of her graphic stories as a performance piece.
August 23rd, 2007
Evidence of my big Eisner Awards kiss with Ellen Forney has finally surfaced. Velvet Park Magazine just posted an extravagantly lengthy and comprehensive video interview with me that they shot at the San Diego Comic Con. It’s like 15 minutes long. The interview, sadly, not the kiss. But should you grow impatient, the action starts about half an inch from the end of the scrollbar. Ellen told me not to worry, she’d just grab my head and take care of everything. All I had to do was think of England.
If you’re a Neil Gaiman fan, (thanks, Kate McKinnon for mentioning his blog a while back–it is indeed excellent) keep watching after the kiss and you can see him presenting me with the Eisner award for best Reality-Based Work. Later in the ceremony, Jonathan Ross copied Ellen’s idea and gave Neil a big kiss, though Neil doesn’t look very happy about it. (thanks again to Dr. Empirical for that link.)
August 21st, 2007
Here’s a little something I ran across recently that I thought you might find amusing. It’s from the 1991 April Fool’s issue of the Madison Insurgent, a progressive paper that DTWOF once ran in. Someone–I’m not sure who–did this rather delightful all-male spoof of the strip.
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August 21st, 2007
It was twenty years ago today… are you two still together?
[Time for another archive episode. As I announced in May, I’m cutting back to one new episode per month for a while, and in between I’m running strips from 1987.]
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