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madison zinefest 2011

madison zinefest 2011 swiftly approaches. i was at my practicum at beloit college, and all of these printouts were going to be used as scrap paper., which i thought was nonsense. so i rescued them, and maegan helped me turn them into a clutch of hand-colored / lettered / drawn flyers. no two are the same. i like them.

now they are up around campus, again, thanks to maegan. exclusive. limited ed. holy cow.

zinefest itself is this saturday, the 22nd. find some info here. and here too.

the evening before, on the 21st, there will be an excellent event at project lodge. john porcellino speaking, a ton of rad guys from chicago playing synth jams. it'll be a strange two-headed monster. will i be hoisted by my own petard? come and see! info for that is here.

no zines or minicomics or tapes from me at zinefest, which bums me out. grad school is a killer. i am going to try to make time next semester / over break, make up lost ground.

i don't even care

(see also: this)

addendum:

nw yrk

heavy

holy cow...

"Winsor McCay spoke the saddest and greatest last words of any cartoonist. (Number two is Osamu Tezuka: “I’m begging you, let me work!”) McCay lived to draw; his greatest fear, he often said, was of losing that ability. On a July evening in 1934, the 65-year-old cartoonist called downstairs to his wife, “It’s gone, Mother! Gone, gone, gone!” He had just suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side. Shortly afterwards, he suffered a second stroke, from which he never recovered."


from the hooded utilitarian poll of greatest comics ever

beautiful and haunting last words on both accounts. beautiful in the sense that these guys loved their work with all their hearts, haunting in the sense that death meant the end of their joy in creation. i sort of wish i had that kind of dedication to a craft, but i am also thankful that my brain is not that obsessive.

i've been thinking of starting a tumblr. should i do that?

this place is full of cobwebs

music for free on purpose from two of the best in the game.  continue sharing, spread far as well as wide.

mark lord, i'm closer thousand

five mask,  zero go / network glass

want to post more, always busy.  working on class and madison zinefest 2011, want to have a minicomic done before then.  don't even know what it will be about.  also want to record more music.  i can do anything i want.  shouting into a void.  global stress.

h&l