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POLICE LOG COMICS by Owen Cook

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:01:47 -0400

POLICE LOG COMICS by Owen Cook

"When Selasi coined “Afropolitan,” she understood that “the media’s portrayals won’t do. Neither will..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:17:38 -0400

“When Selasi coined “Afropolitan,” she understood that “the media’s portrayals won’t do. Neither will the New World trope of bumbling blue-black doctor.” Though there are two doctors in this story, she situates the characters within the context of the American privilege of movement, up and down through class boundaries, across oceans, by Amtrak trains and tro-tro. The Afropolitans of Ghana Must Go have a sense of individuality and humanity shaped not by what they do for a living or their material success, but by their desire and capacity for love.”

- Stacie Williams reviews Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

THE BINS: Time Travel by Lucas Adams

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:35:08 -0400

THE BINS: Time Travel by Lucas Adams

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:03:27 -0400

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

"There’s not a single person out there whose life hasn’t been touched by the issue of consent."

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:38:37 -0400

“There’s not a single person out there whose life hasn’t been touched by the issue of consent.”

- The Rumpus Interview with Susan Wright, founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

Maakies: Pinwheel by Tony Millionaire

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:43:09 -0400

Maakies: Pinwheel by Tony Millionaire

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:03:00 -0400

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

when Diana Prince spins, her nimbus fills me with glee and glow and when I was a boy I wore my...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:50:44 -0400

when Diana Prince spins, her

nimbus fills me with glee and glow and when

I was a boy I wore my mother’s high

heels and wrapped my Binky around my neck

like a cape and then coiled it at my side

my blanket of truth and I spun and spun

arms outstretched and wanted that light to fill

me, envelop me the way I saw it

change Lynda Carter on TV

From Skin Shift by Matthew Hittinger, reviewed today by Tory Adkisson

"As any recovering alcoholic can tell you, practice works just as well in the realm of not-doing as..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:59:17 -0400

“As any recovering alcoholic can tell you, practice works just as well in the realm of not-doing as anywhere else. My not-singing skills grew by leaps and bounds thanks simply to the fact that entropy takes its cut. Musicians are a bit like sharks. If they do not keep swimming, going through the specific physical motions of their music-making, their skills wither and die. I could feel muscle memory getting fuzzy, my instincts growing less reflexive. When it saddened me, as it inevitably did, I told myself I wasn’t a singer any more, and it could not possibly matter.”

- Hanne Blank’s Deep Throat #4: On Being and Unbeing a Singer

From Liam Golden’s marvelous Spotlight: Boco Watches the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:22:00 -0400

From Liam Golden’s marvelous Spotlight: Boco Watches the Sea

"The Drew’s community of River Heights is in many ways a typical Midwestern town, yet it presents..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:34:41 -0400

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The Drew’s community of River Heights is in many ways a typical Midwestern town, yet it presents serious challenges to risk mitigation due to the unprecedented number of carnivals, cults, traveling circuses, organized crime syndicates, and counterfeiting rings in its vicinity….

Dotted across this perilous landscape are myriad secluded inns, tea rooms, mansions, and castles which contain hidden staircases, secret passages, haunted spirits, buried treasure, and/or smuggled goods. These structures figure prominently in N.’s daily movement. They also explode and burn down with alarming frequency.

”

- FUNNY WOMEN #101: Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis for N. Drew by Susan Schorn

All Over Coffee #634 by Paul Madonna

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:52:09 -0400

All Over Coffee #634 by Paul Madonna

"THIS IS REAGAN COUNTRY,” offers a wizened sign atop the roof of the town convenience store. This is..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:26:12 -0400

““THIS IS REAGAN COUNTRY,” offers a wizened sign atop the roof of the town convenience store. This is Reagan’s country. Yes, but this is Reagan Country. It’s not political, not a GOP slogan. Nothing to do with tax reform, Grenada, supply-side economics. It’s a beckoning, a greeting—a suspension of reality. A 0.4-square-mile fantasy, or a national subconscious. There is a space that lies beyond Americana, that exists outside—apart from—the borderlines of memory and narrative and withered material artifact, where history tangles toward mythmaking until their threads seamlessly intertwine.”

- Beyond Americana by Zach Schonfeld

"Speedboat somehow does without plot all the stuff that is usually plot’s responsibility… Literature,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:43:00 -0400

“Speedboat somehow does without plot all the stuff that is usually plot’s responsibility… Literature, to get cute about it, isn’t about the story; it’s about the telling – the whole point of the fictive exercise is to impart feeling, not knowledge, or, because that really is too cute a sum-up, to effect some sort of emotional/spiritual response in the reader. It’s true that we’re hardwired in some infinitely mysterious way to tell, listen, and relate to stories, but at their core, stories are vehicles to smuggle the more real but less tangible stuff in – suspense, heartbreak, triumph, sympathy, beauty, sublimity, defeat, ennui, whatever it is that gets you off… All I’m saying is that literature isn’t as much about the story as it is about creating the space where the story happens. And Speedboat has, in the fullest, most praiseworthy sense, created a space, one dictated and propelled by an emotional, not a narrative, engine.”

- Menachem Kaiser reviews Speedboat and Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

When I first started playing around with my voice, I had a...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:47 -0400

When I first started playing around with my voice, I had a guitar pedal that would loop. But you could only loop one thing. With the thing I use now, the RC-50, you can have three different ones going at the same time—a lot more dynamic. I just started making sounds. Instead of saying something on the spot, I would just sing, kind of like I’ve always done. I’ve done it my whole life. My mom does it too, humming, singing. …My first album is pretty much all those loops I made when I first started playing around with it. It’s completely wordless. I just liked the way it felt.

The Rumpus Interview with Julianna Barwick

FOLK TALK: History Reinterpreted by Shelagh Power-Chopra

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:17:37 -0400

FOLK TALK: History Reinterpreted by Shelagh Power-Chopra

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:03:25 -0400

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

acrosstheyumiverse: Hi tumblr pals, Excited to share with all...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:26:03 -0400

acrosstheyumiverse:

Hi tumblr pals,

Excited to share with all of you that independent publishing house Paper Farms just released a full-color booklet featuring two of my previous comic zine titles “Intergalactic Telepathic Pen Pal” and “A Special Message For You Hand-Delivered To You From the Universe” in a single volume that also includes a process essay by yours truly. Since me = cheap with my printing costs, I’m tickled pink to finally have a properly bound book to share with all of you that isn’t completely monochromatic.

*** ORDER ORDER ORDER HERE :)

—

P.S. Paper Farms previously released a booklet featuring the screenprint comics / artwork of my artist pal Jen Tong, which you should also eye-drool at and order for yourself.

Yumi Sakugawa aka acrosstheyumiverse is the author of perhaps the most popular Rumblr post of all time, “I Think I Am in Friend Love with You” (which was a reblog!). She is also the author of The Rumpus’s awesome, haunting, spooky, beautiful, mournful Saturday Comics.

"(Which, don’t even get me started, half the fun of listening to music and possibly more than half is..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:21:56 -0400

“(Which, don’t even get me started, half the fun of listening to music and possibly more than half is context, this is a very nearly religious conviction for me, all hail context forever, I know this battle is already lost however I will be waging it til my dying breath, “context!” I will cry from my deathbed, “context!” I will say to those whom I haunt later on, “I got haunted and the best my ghost can come up to scare me with is ‘context’” my hauntees will complain, everyone’s a critic, however not everyone is a ghost, yet.)”

- I would buy a 1000-page book of John Darnielle’s parentheticals (via rachelfershleiser)

“However not everyone is a ghost, yet.” [Emphasis mine.]

"The kiss wasn’t heavy or too high-stakes. It had come, I’d have said, in a natural way, just part of..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:26 -0400

“The kiss wasn’t heavy or too high-stakes. It had come, I’d have said, in a natural way, just part of the conversation: a kiss that was really a thought of itself, if thought was a factor at all.”

- In “Kiss of the Underachiever,” Scott Garson “turns the familiar ‘desire in a bar’ story into something uniquely propelled by the sound of the words.” Greg Gerke reviews Is That You, John Wayne.

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POLICE LOG COMICS by Owen Cook

POLICE LOG COMICS by Owen Cook

"When Selasi coined “Afropolitan,” she understood that “the media’s portrayals won’t do. Neither will..."

Stacie Williams reviews Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

THE BINS: Time Travel by Lucas Adams

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

"There’s not a single person out there whose life hasn’t been touched by the issue of consent."

Maakies: Pinwheel by Tony Millionaire

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

when Diana Prince spins, her nimbus fills me with glee and glow and when I was a boy I wore my...

"As any recovering alcoholic can tell you, practice works just as well in the realm of not-doing as..."

From Liam Golden’s marvelous Spotlight: Boco Watches the...

"The Drew’s community of River Heights is in many ways a typical Midwestern town, yet it presents..."

FUNNY WOMEN #101: Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis for N. Drew by Susan Schorn

All Over Coffee #634 by Paul Madonna

"THIS IS REAGAN COUNTRY,” offers a wizened sign atop the roof of the town convenience store. This is..."

Beyond Americana by Zach Schonfeld

"Speedboat somehow does without plot all the stuff that is usually plot’s responsibility… Literature,..."

Menachem Kaiser reviews Speedboat and Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

When I first started playing around with my voice, I had a...

The Rumpus Interview with Julianna Barwick

FOLK TALK: History Reinterpreted by Shelagh Power-Chopra

FOLK TALK: History Reinterpreted by Shelagh Power-Chopra

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

acrosstheyumiverse: Hi tumblr pals, Excited to share with all...

"(Which, don’t even get me started, half the fun of listening to music and possibly more than half is..."

"The kiss wasn’t heavy or too high-stakes. It had come, I’d have said, in a natural way, just part of..."