Just got my contrib copy of Pear Noir! (issue 3) in the mail. Really excited about this one. Go here to see the names. Just read Lily Hoang’s “Inivisible Women” selections. She reinvents Calvino’s cities. Really interesting to read someone doing a transliterative project like this, as I’ve been doing a lot of this recently myself, particularly with Bernhard. These pieces from Lily are really beautiful. I’m looking forward to seeing the rest.

The other reason I’m excited about the new Pear Noir! is that they did a great job printing my comic, “My Brother’s Shoe.” Not many lit. journals are very excited about publishing comics longer than ten pages, but they were kind enough to give me a nice chunk of real estate. And, as a comics artist, you always cringe when you first look at your work printed by someone else (especially when it involves a lot of gray tones like this one). They did a terrific job. Go get your copy of Pear Noir! here.