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Don’t engage in hero worship.
I hope Vance comes to France to support the Far Right
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We said adieu to my cousin this week, who passed away at 48 years old. Yesterday, I met my newest cutest baby nephew.
To quote Marjane Satrapi : life passes with or without God
1930s, Superman beats up fat cats + union busters
1940s, everyone punches Nazis
1950s, MAD Magazine (hoohah!)
1960s, heroes vs fascists/supremacists
1970s, Cap vs POTUS + insurrectionist aristocrats, BP vs Klan
1980s, DD deals w fallout of drug war, Cap vs Iran Contra, Reagan is a (literal) snake
I always thought if I did Ramadan I would just forget and eat stuff all the time and be like oh shit every day for a month. I don’t know how people manage to do it
85 year old Joan Baez and Jesse Welles at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, CA, March 21, 2026
TT: jessewelles
When I’m writing I think I’m looking for a feeling I had as a kid that comics were made by giants. (and then you grow up, and you realize… no, they were made by people who needed rent money argh argh)
Oh, ok I remember what I wanted to say. When I was writing ghosts of marvel comics vol 1, I had in mind the documentary “reprise” by Hervé Leroux. Research done with care, humility and in a really humane way.
This way I’m not polluting the main book with my sad little me
I’m trying to have a clear ethic: i don’t sensationalize, i don’t rush to be first, and i try not to put myself at the center of the subject. That last one is the hardest part, so much so I decided to do a little separate journal of my experience working on that marvel history GN
About doing a documentary graphic novel: I like filmmakers like Raymond Depardon or Claire Simon, comics artists like Emmanuel Guibert. Good observers & listeners . They don’t overwrite the lives they portray. They create smthing that honors complexity+ leaves room for silence.
I feel that’s one of the reasons I chose a cartoony style over realism. it keeps a certain distance. You’re always aware that this is constructed (you can see the seams, as I do often say)
at the same time, it still has to feel real enough to step into.
Anyway
Yadayada bla-bla
Trying to rephrase : a comicbook gives confidence to something that was full of doubt.
I’m trying to be perfectly accurate in my work, but maybe the job isn’t to be perfectly accurate. It’s maybe to be precise enough for the reader to step in and accept the version you’re showing
the moment you draw something, it freezes. In my Marvel graphic novel, I sometimes take something uncertain & turn it into something you can see. It’s not the truth (can’t be ) it’s just one version. But once it’s on the page, it feels stable and too real
comic do something very specific: they stop things. IRL, everything moves all the time, memories shift, stories change, details will depend on who’s talking.
(Dont know the source)
Chuck Norris and Stan Lee
On the process of rereading and correcting: sometimesI go back to sequences I wrote years ago.
I recognize the sentences, but I don’t remember writing them.
it’s like reading someone else’s work!!
I thought back in 2017 the hard part would be finding new things/documents. It wasn’t. The hard part is deciding what to cut
some days I sit at my desk and I don’t draw. I just look at the notes. (In despair) 😶😶
Writing the last chapters of Ghosts of Marvel Comics means taking nine years of notes and trying not to panic
Finally found a place for those two Spider-Man action figures
Hopefully I’ll be able to do short stories for media partners during the promotional campaign in France. There’s already going to be 8 WEBTOON episodes in between volume 1 and 2
I’ve taken pages out and still have the last chapter to write (60 pages!) but so far Volume 2 will be about 40 pages longer that vol 1.
Rereading and correcting storyboards for Ghosts of Marvel Comics vol 2.
Superman school of drawing
July 4 1966. Marvel comics at war! (Storyboards for Ghosts of Marvel Comics vol2)
