Zen and The Art of Karaoke 5-8

I have not! I like Smyth but never seen this series. Maybe I can dig up the issues somewhere.

Song Comics

This summer I will have lived in Chicago for 23 years- I like it here! Piece was made in conjunction for last months Empty Bottle art show, curated by Nick Fisher, and color version will be printed in the upcoming Lumpen comics issue.

The more things change…

Nothing is free in this world

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A) Why does this puppet take its shoes off b) why no socks c) 🚬

The most important news in Chicago is when it’s warm in early spring

9 years ago! No idea where is drawing went 🤣

Sunday! I’ll be at Thalia Hall with books and prints- searching my flat file I discovered materials for a Zine I’ve forgotten to assemble for almost a decade 😂 I’ll have some limited quantities of this at the show never to be reprinted (I hope!). Come say hi, support @chicagoreader.com !

Good comics page from Saint Muscle (Fukushima Masami)

Finished reading this Beatrix Potter treasury, delightful bit also filled with bizarre anxiety

Anyways here are some ghosts who eat shit

Currently reading a history of Japanese narrative picture scrolls (emaki)- author makes point that when originally produced subject matter was poetry & spirituality, after becoming more popular with the wealthy elite subjects became more gendered, documenting the social lives of the elite. Weird!

Posted this on IG this morning with a low response, can’t tell if it’s a bad comic or bad lighting (both?!?)

My brother is an enjoyer of fine art

I allow myself 30 seconds just so I have a chance to show friends if I saw something cool, put people recording an entire set must be stopped

Incredible comic by Morgan Vogel (signed as Caroline Bren) bookended by two panels by Ernie Bushmiller, for Josh Bayer's Suspect Device 2, 2012

New poster alert! Thanks to @juggaloreporter.bsky.social for asking me, love to do commission work for events I’m psyched on. See originals drawings have old Nate on them- this will be taking place Feb 23rd.

I am an adult man still getting squashed at shows

Still at it

Nosferatu review: I left with a desire to rewatch Dracula: Dead and Loving It but fell asleep watching the Herzog Nosferatu instead.

Joe Sacco might be able to pull off a fedora, another example of a rare talent

Frame #3912 from 60sE62 behind the puff ball

Karaoke report- Creep with the lyrics replaced with “I don’t want a lot for Christmas” 👎

Dadaist karaoke