Head or gut?

Unfortunately, work on my next art book, Prisoner's Cinema, has been on the backburner while I was writing my thesis. Now that that is done, and I've had some time to reorient myself, I'm getting back to the drawing board. Since my last production journal entry,  I reached my goal of a minimum 120 base…

Successes and shortcomings by Haverholm (haverholm.com)

I don’t know how to announce a new scholarly paper. Somehow I sense that a thesis that constitutes six months’ work should be presented with less boast and pomp than I would a five minute drawing or an hour-long performance. My Master’s thesis, Uncomics – reconsidering the comics form throug...

Tangential to the subject of my Master's thesis, The Comics Grid recently published an article by Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins, 'The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid'. I'm not in the habit of posting about every interesting article on TCG (there are only so many hours in the day, and you'd be…

I always have a backlog of 8-10 episodes from Erik Davis' Expanding Minds podcast waiting for me to listen to them. They are wide ranging, cross-disciplinary conversations about art, music, "technoculture", and contemporary spirituality, and I find them as rewarding to engage with as they are demanding of the listener's attention. Most recently I sat…

Back in the early 2000s I was drawing and self-publishing my graphic novel one chapter at a time in little photo copied magazines; I sent small batches out to comics shops in Denmark but I had next to no idea if people outside of my closest circles read it. Then an email landed in my…

Hey all, a quick update to let you know that I just finished the first third of the pieces that are going into Prisoner’s Cinema. That is not bad if I do say so myself, and if responses from people I have showed them to are anything to go by, the book is shaping up…