It might have made more sense for me to draw Old Hemingway here, with the big white beard and the turtleneck sweater, but I don’t draw two versions of any other historical figure and anyway it would be kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
His wife also calls him “Tatie” like every other sentence, which I don’t get, because Hemingway’s supposed to be so spare and unornamented and people just don’t talk that way! Maybe they did in France a hundred years ago, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Under questioning I tried to tell Miss Stein that when you were a boy and moved in the company of men, you had to be prepared to kill a man, know how to do it and really know that you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Milena Jesenská was a badass who deserves to be known as more than Kafka’s translator and pen pal. For her resistance work in occupied Czechoslovakia, helping Jews and others to emigrate, the Nazis sent her to Ravensbrück, where she died.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did get thirsty. But no services because of COVID meant I spent the whole day asleep, which wasn’t too much of a hardship. I didn’t even really get hungry. See Sinclair in all his three-piece glory here and incidentally[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve become largely vegan, mostly without even meaning to, but not today! It was a gnat or something and it was halfway down my throat before I even realized it. I’ve seen Renfield called both R. N. and R. M.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think I’m recycling this joke, but I’m not about to prove it by digging up the comic where I did it first. Anyway, my own self-imposed restriction now permits me to draw Herr Doktor Kafka again! And more good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Kafka is a magnificent and very rarely seen moon-blue mouse, which eats no flesh, but feeds on bitter herbs. It is a bewitching sight, for it has human eyes.” (I decided to give this one eyes specifically of “plaintive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kind of vaguely a sequel to this one. I hope you are doing OK.
Shut up about Batman. Shut up about Star Wars. Shut up about all narratives built on wanking over manpain and solving problems with violence.