Comics! By Cricket! No longer daily! But… uh… comics!
Important societal issues addressed in these pages: The Ace Hotel (or what my friend Paul refers to as “the gasoline on the burning tire-fire of Manhattan culture”), Sunday Business, smoking, Apes at College, et al… All below the cut!
Last minute announcement! I’ll be at the Mocca Arts Festival in New York City tomorrow because it’s 10 blocks from my apartment. I won’t have a table or anything. Rather, I’ll just be rambling from display to display and getting in adventures like the wandering cartoonists of old. If you want to chat you’ll just to recognize me by my famously penetrating stare/shabby clothing. Above image is from a comic I’ve been working on. More art/comics/announcements to come soon! I swear!
I’ve finished my novel!
It’s called Dates Worse Than Fate. The Premise: terrible dates combined with terrible moments in human history! Would you like to read it? I would also like you to read it. But that requires a literary agent or publisher. Are you one of these people/entities? If so, well, confession: I love you. Please contact me! My info is on this page. I’ve only met one literary agent once. It was five years ago after I did a reading on the Lower East Side. She gave me her card, which I subsequently lost. Are you that particular literary agent? Well, confession: I love you– no, seriously, you were very beautiful!
Are you not a literary agent/publisher? Yeah, me either! But you can still help! I created a Facebook group in the hope that if many people joined it, the published book would spontaneously materialize from our collective desire. Please join it here! If you don’t have Facebook, then you’re a stronger person than I will ever be– just comment below this post if you would like to see the book in print!
Thank you, by the way, to all the posters in the comments sections who have said kind and encouraging things about my work. And also thank you to all the posters who have just said, like, really insane things that are sort of creepy in that way that only the internet is creepy. Confession: I love you most of all.
UPDATE (4/20/11): I’ve created a site for the book where you can read excerpts!
So Cricket’s been making a six panel comic a day. Eventually, I’ll make a better place for them; but for now they go on the blog. Here are the first five below the cut!
This one comes from my long experience observing mouse culture in my complicated daydreams.
Longer (multiple page) comics next.
Happy new year all!
I attended the St. Mark’s New Year’s Day Marathon Reading this year. Below are some scans from my sketchbook from the event.
Here are some sketches and notes from a lecture by philosopher(-king?) Slavoj Žižek I attended in November at the New York Public Library. “Man is shaken by the beautiful madness called laughter and creates the mystery of shape.” he said. He was speaking about an incident where Derrida, as the notes say, finds himself ashamed of his naked body in front of his cat. The cat’s eyes represent The Other– the mystery of existence beyond the veil. The flowers were in a vase beside Žižek, but as perhaps Derrida would have wanted, I have placed them on his head.
More below the cut!
Well, it’s 2011 and as I expected from the future, we’ve received proof of time travel in the metaphorically convenient form of a tiny Swiss watch and Newton’s draconian laws of thermodynamics have finally been broken (apparently 60 years ago and then shelved in museum).
Why is the watch so tiny? Well, obviously the universe is not expanding it’s shrinking. We just don’t notice it because we’re all shrinking at the same time. However, if we would go back in time we would be embarrassingly small! Don’t believe me? Just think back to your childhood? Don’t you remember being ridiculously small? I know! Weird, right…
For those of you who got a Fighting Machine for Christmas and want to do a quick Fighting Machine to hamster conversion, I’ve posted a helpful guide. The original Hamster to F.M. guide is below. I have no idea who made it. Purrington? Also, there’s a crazy amount of snow in New York City. This morning, on an exploratory mission to Starbucks, I had to eat one of my dogs (hot dogs). Also, I’m never drawing a hamster again. I hate drawing them. Their noses defy categorization. What differentiates them from a mouse? How should I know? The careful observer will notice that I drew the hamster differently in every panel. The even more astute observer will notice that this was because I never figured out how to draw a hamster.
The last page of The Raisins D’Etre is up! The saga has concluded, as perhaps you guessed it would, in puppies, balloons, and glimmering gems.
By the way, the glacial pace at which I post comic pages is often because my attention is devoted to several long-term projects which will eventually see the light of the day.
I’m working on a few different things at the moment, an as yet unannounced indie Xbox game, a more adventure-themed (less comicy) comic, and a novel(la?).
I’ve been working on the novel(la?) for about four years now but it should be finished sometime this spring. If you’re a fan of The Nerds of Paradise and A Lesson is Learned, I think you’ll like it. I haven’t started looking for a publisher because, well, human contact interferes with my rich fantasy life. But if I don’t find one then whatever, I’ll just sell it out of my apartment like the crazy person I always dreamed I would grow up to be.
The Xbox game– it’s super-awesome. I’ll keep you posted when the demo is released or the promo site pops up.
And the other comic… I might post some of it here. But I haven’t decided if the web is the right format yet.
So what’s coming next? I have some one-page and one-panel comics which will go up in December. So stay tuned! Or watch from a safe distance using the .rss feed.
