jps.

Just finished a paper on 99 Ways to Tell a Story by Matt Madden, which is a comic book take on Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style. It’s a really interesting exploration of storytelling and how the slightest change in perspective or emotion can totally change the dynamic of the story. Most of it pertains to any form of writing or art.

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For Paz.

Totally forgot how awesome of an album Chairs Missing is.

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jessicaheleneadler:

Indeed.

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Soooo cool. Love the Will Clark (JERK) and Bobby Bonilla (same) drawings; who’s the third? I haven’t done mail order in about ten years but I’m totally getting this.

POLL: Should I or should I not eat the gum?

Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Now, at an advancing age, stricken with diabetes and legally blind, Paul wants to sell the collection.

It’s been appraised at about $50 million, but Paul is asking a mere $3 million.

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Enjoy it while it lasts.

I’ve been reading a lot of Daniel Clowes lately and halfway through David Boring I figured out the thing that kind of bothers me about his work: he loves to throw murders and killings into his comics (and movies) without his characters hardly affected by them. In the opening pages of David Boring, Boring’s friend SPOILER is murdered. Whatever, shrugs David, he felt uncomfortable around him anyway. Later, David is shot in the head. The head. He survives, so no big deal. In Art School Confidential, Jerome SPOILER sort of burns down an apartment building by accident, killing the residents inside. WHOOPS. Even Ice Haven had a weird murder mystery subplot.

Also, speaking of mysteries, I think I’ve solved one: there’s an eerie similarity in the appearance of Wanda Kraml and Scarlett Johansson. According to the always reliable Wikipedia, Clowes based the character of Boring’s mother on a producer of Ghost World, which our girl Scarlett starred in. In the book, the character of Wanda is the manifestation of sexual perfection to David, so… I’m just putting that out there.

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