“All the bad stuff I used to make fun of has now happened to me! So there is a god!”
—bald guy inspecting his baldness in the mirror with Siamese twin babies crying in the background and a wife visible through the front window leaving him for another man with great hair
“I’m itchy”
— A yeasty treat in a box of “Yeasty Treats”
“What is this supposed to mean?”
— Stupid Fucking Idiot
A person at a party near a bookcase holds up a book titled “how to fuck” and laughs at it, but the dismissive host takes a sip of special wine and says, “Yes, but I wrote it.”
“I smiled all day today.” — the devil
“I can't tell if I'm gross or not.”
— A pretty fucking gross person. A gross enough person
“Everything is so crazy now.”
—Someone who is not crazy to someone else that is also not crazy about a decidedly commonplace (albeit crazy) environment and/or experience
“Nothing’s wrong with me.”
—Fucked person
“I found answers! Now I can enjoy life!”
— A transformed person bursting juicily out of a chrysalis with dripping angel wings and a really cool style (while drab, uncool onlookers crane upward at him painfully)
“Yeah, I knew God.”
—Interviewee exhaling cig-smoke, leaning against the wall out back of the restaurant watching the sunset in his downtime before the next shift
“Don’t fuck up my Nissan sales event.”
—Hamlet to Horatio in the new Disney+/Kenny ‘Dog’ Branaugh “collab” version of Hamlet for T-Mobile or whatever
“I wear a special cloth on my head tied and laid just so, and I know everyone is wondering about it, and they know it’s special for some reason, and that makes me special.” — A Famous Person
“I’m quite unique.”
—common smug fuck
“Survive this!” —God
“(Gross Voice) Peekaboo”
— Gross Man
“Sometimes people just die, honey.
— Shrugging dad to his kid while speeding away from the scene
My new book of old Creased Comics is on sale now!
I’ve been going through old notes and I’m drawing a bunch of new ones.
I’ll be posting some captions I’ve found which are more fun to read without drawings.
I’m looking forward to…
The new Ross McElwee
&
The new John Wilson
A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.
Hulk Hogan did the voice of The Dean on my show China, IL.
Hulk was always a complete pro. Very generous. Always game to try whatever we asked of him.
I was lucky to know him in a very tiny way and I am thankful for all he gave to my little show.
RIP
Working on it
Jeopardy! is a sport.
I am excited for William T Vollmann’s new one.
I am excited for Paul Thomas Anderson’s new one.
Screenshot of the top of the interview, which features the book cover (a paper cutout of Ulysses S Grant along with a bull and a goat), and the title of the interview: Hero Worship Leads to Cults: An Interview with Brad Neely
I got to interview the hilarious and thoughtful @bradneely.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social! We talked about his new book, hero narratives, cults, and meat-bodies. Many thanks to Brad and X-R-A-Y!
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Got to interview one of my favorite writers and artists, @bradneely.bsky.social, about his hilarious debut novel, "You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant," over at @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social.
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My novel is out today!
Hardback
Paperback
Audiobook (read by me in the wizard people voice)
You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant: A Farcical Biography a.co/d/0liFP8D
My book is real! Preorders are open. Book available jan 24