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Don’t tell them anything. Just smile sweetly and write the next story.
Figuring that stuff out is their job. Your job is making things up. And if you’re making things up properly there will themes and symbols and messages aplenty, whether you intentionally put them in or not, because you are human and alive and writing a story.
A writer gets to explode on the page. Critics and readers are the ones get to to gather up the shrapnel and examine the damage and figure out who got hurt.
J: shh. did you hear that?
H: just the wind?
J: that sure doesn’t smell like wind.
WIP sketch for a trade with the amazing Fend! Read her comic here: http://arrocomic.com/ seriously, so good, way underrated.
A.R.R.O. fan art, ya! These are awesome, Kaili. Glad you like the comic. <3
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From 1919, A Haunting Take on Edgar Allen Poe
Somewhere between Henry Holiday’s weird paintings for Lewis Carroll and Edward Gorey’s delightfully grim alphabet fall Harry Clarke’s hauntingly beautiful and beautifully haunting 1919 illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination—a collection of 29 of Poe’s tales of the magical and the macabre.
So lavish was the artwork that a copy of the “deluxe” Clarke-illustrated edition went for 5 guineas in 1919, or about $300 in today’s money. The book, an epic volume of 480 pages, was eventually reprinted by Calla Editions in 2008, and is now available for the much more reasonable $27, or free with a trip to your local public library.
Eerie and erotic, Clarke’s illustrations bring his Edwardian-era aesthetic and early Art Nouveau influences to the post-Victorian liberated fascination with sensuality.
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Gorgeous.
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The real life models photograph and the painting.
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And more Elvgren’s pin-ups here.
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Uhh, also…
Tuff Turf. So much crimp. (Taken with instagram)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: ARE YOU MY MOTHER? tour
Alison Bechdel’s tour kicks off tomorrow in NYC. Is she visiting you?
NEW YORK
BOSTON
Harvard Book Store @ Brattle Theatre, May 2, 6:00 pm
PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia Free Library, May 3, 7:30 pm
WASHINGTON DC
OMG. Alison Bechdel will be in Boston in 2 days. What is the etiquette of getting too many things signed? What will I wear???
Promotional postcard for Julia Gfrorer’s Flesh and Bone comic — possibly one of the top 10 comics of the century.
Just ordered this comic after reading an excerpt in the Alison Bechdel edition of Best America Comics (best guest editor they’ve had yet). Can’t wait to get weird with it.
buhhh fuck i’ve never seen a doris scan on tumblr i’m having so many feelings about this right now
just yesterday afternoon we were at the bar and my friends were talking about their show in athens last week and how cute miguel is and it’s so weird how worlds intersect and how punx intersect and how much i love the world i live in right now even though i’m not 100% on chattanooga all the time and aaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Even though Cindy Crabb is one of my absolute favorite writers, I have to read her in small doses because her words are often so true that it legitimately hurts. At the same time, there are few writings that make me feel more empowered and connected to a larger community. I had to put her down for a really long time when my mom got sick because she writes so fearlessly about loss and fear and love and the horror of social graces and it was just too close. This is beautiful, though. Love to see it so very reposted.
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