#seaoftime

The first Sea of Time #1 review is incredibly generous. Courtesy of Charles Hatfield at The Comics Journal today:

“I can’t tell whether this is a continuation, companion, or sequel to Bak’s Island of Memory, a nearly decade-old (2013) graphic novella with the same subject: Georg Steller, the 18th-century German naturalist who traveled under the aegis of the Russian Empire and explored Alaska and Kamchatka. Bak has been obsessed with Steller for years, and has long promised a complete graphic biography of him under the title Wild Man. He has referred to Sea of Time as the second volume of Wild Man, but also as “the serialized graphic novel follow-up to Island of Memory.” I don’t get how the two books fit together, or what is supposed to come next. What I do know is that both books are lovely, and that, taken by itself, Sea of Time is hermetic and hard to parse, but stunningly beautiful and transporting. I’m glad that more Sea of Time is promised, because no one else is doing quite what Bak is doing at the intersection of comics, history, and the natural sciences. He treats comics as a way to feed his knowledge of the natural world yet is likewise alert to the political and cultural snares inherent in his subject matter, especially the fraught interchange between imperial and Indigenous ways of knowing. Bak’s sharp, rugged style somewhat evokes the woodcut technique of early Russian lubki, which could be either an apt or ironic framing of the imperial adventurism that underlies Steller’s story. In any case, Bak’s art is getting lovelier, and his graphic worldmaking is something to behold. At only 24 pages, this booklet makes me impatient to see more!”

mIKE I LOBE YOU SO MUCH HOLY SHIT

who ARE you????

Everything you have known,

Everything you have longed for,

Everything you have loved,

Everything drowns in the sea of

Time

@krazy-rp-hatter OH YOU REMINDED ME I used to have reverse dipper as a muse!!! BLESS YOU

with furrowed eyebrows, mike shakes his head aggressively. gold helping is hardly any help at all. in fact, he’s most likely going to make things worse—or, at the very least, slow things down.

holding his hands out, mike shakes his head as an attempt to deter the cat from making a mess. of course, the obvious solution is to just take the glass from her, but she’s much too quick for him. she always is.

halloween memes // accepting

surprisingly, dart didn’t resist the costume as much as mike had anticipated he would. maybe, just maybe, because he fed him about two and a half three musketeers during the process. “ there, ” he says, straightening up the ears on the top of the creature’s head. it’s not the most believable, but it should pass for the night. it’s halloween, after all. either it’s a demodog dressed as a real dog, or a real dog dressed as a demodog. who’s to say? it’s the best mike could do under the circumstances—babysitting dart and holly, the latter of which he’s supposed to take trick-or-treating.