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Kajieme Powell was killed by police a year ago. I still think...

Kajieme Powell was killed by police a year ago. I still think this article has a good perspective on the incident.

The events on the video happen quickly, but they also happen slowly. Powell does not move like a man who poses a threat. There is no evidence that anyone felt threatened before the police arrived. Even when he advances on police, he walks, rather than runs. He swings his arms normally, rather than entering into a fighting stance.

Powell looks sick more than he looks dangerous. But the police draw their weapons as soon as they exit their car. They begin yelling at him to stop. And when they begin shooting, they shoot to kill — even continuing to shoot when Powell is motionless on the ground. There is no warning shot, even. It does not seem like it should be so easy to take a life.

The King

The King

More excitement more #crosshatching #comics #drawing #art

More excitement more #crosshatching #comics #drawing #art

Excitement #drawing #comics #art #crosshatching

Excitement #drawing #comics #art #crosshatching

Freddie & Me 1991-1992I’ve posted an extended...

Freddie & Me 1991-1992

I’ve posted an extended excerpt from my first, now out-of-print, graphic novel, Freddie & Me. All the links are below, but if you go to the first one, you can just keep clicking “Keep Reading” to move through the story.

The subject of the book is ostensibly a detailed account of my lifelong fixation on the Classic Rock band Queen and their flamboyant frontman, Freddie Mercury. What the story is really about is memory.

I wrote this book between 2004 and 2007, so it’s a good ten years in the past now. If the book is about my relationship to the music of Queen and the impact its had on my life, there could be a whole other story to tell about the making of the book and what came after that. Sometimes I think about that. Other times I think about moving on.

This extended excerpt is my favorite sequence from the book: the teenage years. Is there really anything better to write about than the akwardness and awfulness of adolescence?

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Part Eleven
Part Twelve
Part Thirteen
Part Fourteen
Part Fifteen
Part Sixteen
Part Seventeen
Part Eighteen

There’s somebody in the salad

There’s somebody in the salad

This is something I’m going to be making some noise about...

This is something I’m going to be making some noise about very soon.

I found the 2003 SPX Travelogue in a used bookstore in Berkeley and I'm enjoying it so far. just wanted to holler at you

That’s cool!  

There’s a lot of love out there for the old SPX anthologies.  People always ask about bringing them back…  Maybe one of these days!  

For folks who may not be aware, SPX used to do a printed anthology every year, sometimes focused on a simple theme, like travel, for example (photo totally swiped from jamietanner).

The final SPX anthology was published in 2005 which holy crap was ten years ago… It’s great that people remember them fondly and that they’re still turning up and being re-discovered.

You can find some mighty fine work by some incredible artists.  Every one of these is a time capsule for what was going on in indie comics at the time.

Thanks for sharing!

MDT

Archeologists will just say, “oh, here’s the diary...

Archeologists will just say, “oh, here’s the diary of a really boring person” or something…

Concluding an extended excerpt from my first graphic novel, Freddie & Me (2008).

Thanks for reading!!

TCJ Talkies payday

TCJ Talkies payday