I’ve been struggling with writing this blogpost for the last few weeks. I want to start properly posting on the blog again (sure, I’ve posted some topical posts, but it’s been nothing like my old routine), but I do want to catch folks up on what I’ve been up to, and that’s been … a whole lot of stuff.
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The Fables of Erlking Wood
This one’s coming to you folks much later than I’d intended, but it’s been a busy month.
Nearly a month ago, Goats Flying Press launched a Kickstarter campaign for the original graphic novel The Fables of Erlking Wood, by Juni Ba and myself.
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Daredevil: Born Again
Just got to reading this for the second time ever – which is an odd thing to say about a comic I own two different editions of (the collection and the IDW Artisan Edition).
Here’s the thing. Before this, in my naïveté, I only liked Born Again for the David Mazzuchelli art, and I’ll admit now that I was largely wrong to do so, even though Miller’s writing continues to not particularly speak to me (except for some his most outré moments in Sin City).
I reread it this time because I was gearing up to reread Batman: Year One and figured I should start with their previous vaunted collaboration, which had after all ended only the previous year. Also came the timely release of Mangasplaining’s Born Again episode. Just felt right.
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The Tiny Onion Artists in Residence Program
I’d hoped to be back to blogging for a bit before this post happened, so it’d feel less like it came out of nowhere, but … for the last few months I’ve been teasing something big happening with work, and this Wednesday, it was announced –
Along with colourist/writer Jordie Bellaire, I will be part of the inaugural class of Tiny Onion’s brand new Artists in Residence program.
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Fiction and Non-Fiction in Film
In an interview with Anurag Minus Verma (whose podcast is easily the best Indian podcast around, though unfortunately for my non-Indian readers, most of his episodes are not in English), director Shaunak Sen, who made the documentary All That Breathes, talks about fiction and non-fiction in film, and the separation between the two. He makes the point that if Tarkovsky, for example, has a contemplative shot of a tree swaying in the wind, is that not a non-fiction shot?
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Life/Death Update
I haven’t written here in a few weeks – I was working on the next Weeknotes (Weeknotes 29 – for reference, we’re now in Week 33), and I wanted to post an update here for anyone who hasn’t seen it on BlueSky (so, a whole lot of you, most likely).
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 28: Woo-Woo
This one’s coming to you closer to the weekend, if not quite within it. I count that a victory.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 27: Second Half of the Year
This is coming later than I’d like, but I was pretty slammed with work Monday and Tuesday. Usually, Monday is my busy day. I strictly avoid working on the weekend, and avoid looking at work emails too, so Monday is when I respond to everyone’s weekend emails. Plus Monday is file delivery day for most comics publishers, which means last-minute revisions and pre-flight checks.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 2: Watching and Reading
This is a couple of days later than I’d like, but I was under the weather again this week.
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Weeknotes / 2024 / Week 26 Part 1: Updates
As mentioned, there was no newsletter last week, since I was in Goa with some friends, and as much as I love you folks on the Internet, I had no desire to hole up in the Airbnb and type while my friends were out having fun.
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