Hourly Comic Day 2022

This is how it is this year.

Internet Kismet

“I haven’t lived with that long enough to paint it.”

A Collection of Small Things

Too many things on the brain, not enough energy to make them all into individual posts.

Wisdoms for Self

“to learn anew &/or to be reminded of to continue learning”

Ramble #29

An audio dispatch from Ojai’s October fields.

A Current Impasse

How can I reconcile how excited I am by this project—how tangled up in the joy of designing new characters and solving page layouts like crossword puzzles every morning—with how utterly depleted and depressed and grief-riddled I am in the rest of my life?

Brace, Ebb, Theft

When I make light of this season—either because I’m afraid of it, or embarrassed that it’s happening to me, or something else—I rob myself of the chance to feel my way through into whatever comes next.

Jesse

The first funeral I ever attended wasn’t for a family member; it was for a cartoonist.

Ramble #27.2

A Ramble about what to do when there is nothing to be done.

Mind the Gap

This morning I opened Twitter and saw that John le Carré had died. I don’t know how to talk about this. He wasn’t John in our house, but David—his given name. I grew up alongside his grandchildren in California, fellow offspring of English parents who had come to LA to work in film and stayed … Continue reading Mind the Gap