The Funnies
[Image: from Chris Ware’s Lambiek Avontuur Strip, hosted by The Ephemerist] Scott McCloud on the art of Making Comics [via LHB] // Ware vs. Kramer: Art Comics Title Bout. TalkAboutComics on the “growing aesthetic divide between those who champion ‘art comics’ and those who support ‘comics as art’” [via Journalista] // The Daily Cross Hatch […]
Sonnet From an Abandoned Sequence
The seas have long since risen over those cities of the future where I’d projected readers. I can’t compete with a device that gathers and amplifies starlight so soldiers can see in the dark. If a sudden non-coincidence of sound and image startles us into momentary presence, so what?
By Ben Lerner.
The System
I’m so going to own this class, Tommy realized after sizing up all the competition. He considered himself an excellent judge of character and not one student threatened him. There was a boy with a large head — myth, Tommy thought, brains are all the same size — twin Asian girls — they may be the most trouble, he considered, but not much — and another handful of unimposing students. They all seemed to know each other, just the way Tommy preferred it — he enjoyed being the outcast.
By Michael Kozlowsky.
An Interview With Dennis Loy Johnson
Well, one way I deal with things is by having concerns about writing I never thought I’d have–for example, is it safe to discuss killing George Bush, even theoretically? I now have impulses that say “call the lawyer” and “protect the writer” and “protect the house.” As for the rest of the decision making process of being a publisher–if that’s what you’re asking–you start from a place that admits it’s all arbitrary to your personal taste and go from there.
Tao Lin interviews Melville House proprietor Dennis Loy Johnson for 3:AM.