I’m the caboose on the Melissa Broder curated Doolittle reading this Sunday at Cakeshop. I got “Gouge Away.” Let me put it this way: if you were made of ice cream, what the hell else would you do to yourself?

The Promise Ring has already covered this one, btw. So I’m not even acting like I’m the first.

 

Lincoln and I look at the avian existential doldrums:

New Animals in Midlife Crises up at The Rumpus. This one looks at the aging sloth.

The latest episode of Animals in Midlife Crises is up at The Rumpus.

The second episode of Animals in Midlife Crises is up at The Rumpus.

It’s Opening Day for the New York National baseball team. Luckily, they’re in Miami, as it’s snowing in New York today. They’ll be playing the Marlins, a team that they will win more games than this year. The all-pitch-no-bat Phickle-Phanned Phils conquest of the league gets underway this afternoon against Astros. Their fierce Ibanez-led lineup should crush the Mariners single-season wins record. The good news is, that because of the majority of casual baseball fans gross overstatement of the Mets despair, they are guaranteed to exceed expectations for the first time in since Bobby V was in the dugout.

Anyway, Aaron Burch just posted his annual baseball issue of HOBART. I remember living in Tokyo about sixyears ago and stumbling upon the issue then, it was the first time I read HOBART (I got sucked in). Now, in 2011, I’m a contributor to Burch’s Baseball Annual. Go here to read two baseball themed atrocities.

For the first time in my life I have a comic strip (with jokes and everything). I’m doing it with good ol’ Lincoln Michel and we’re calling it “Animals in Midlife Crises.” The first episode is up at THE RUMPUS and they’ll posting a new each Sunday for a while.

It’s a bit later than planned, but it’s still awesome – this morning we just posted the fifteenth issue of Action,Yes. We’re getting old, but this one feels young again. After a year’s worth of selections from submissions, we’ve curated and handpicked an issue the way we used to. Go and check it out. I endorse it all, but one feature of the issue I’d like to draw your attention to are the comics by a selection of artists that I think are really challenging the form’s definition (Jason Overby, Dane Martin, Blaise Larmee, and Scott Longo), and give the medium a shove it’s needed since some self-satisfied complacency kicked in ten years ago, when everybody started loving “graphic novels.” Look for more work like this in future issues. (Actually, if you have work like this-comics that f’ things up-send them to me. My email address is here.)

List of assassinating contribs:

Abelkop/Broder/Césaire/Eshelman/Arnold/Chabrier/Cotner&Fitch/de Lima/Foley/Fox/Larmee/Leong/Longo/Martin/Mullen/Norðdahl/Overby/Peak/Piznarik/Stumpf/Toshiko/Angles/Wang/Ward

This little book was a freebie with COMIC ART magazine a few years back. It’s my favorite book about comics. Finally, you can buy your own copy.

Go here if you want to learn more of my thoughts about things that I may or may not have already told you about, including that ATROCIOUS city Baltimore.