Poetry Corner

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La Posada Calavera

This recent strip appears in the new issue, #45, of the comic anthology, World War 3 Illustrated. Many thanks to Peter Kuper for including my piece.

It's an homage to the Calavera broadsheets of Jose Guadalupe Posada. It ran in The Brooklyn Rail in time for Dia de los Muertos this year. Now it's in the "death issue" of WWIII.

Raunchy Limerick Favorites (again)

The new issue of Yuck!, #7, has just come out in Australia and includes these 5 pages of my Raunchy Limerick Favorites.

I posted most of these before, when they ran as a Tragic Strip, but you should be able to see them better here. Depending on your browser, if you open each page in a new window, they'll appear 1200px wide, which is pretty clear. 

From the Archive: Let Me Out of Here, 1987/1999

This one goes back to this one job I had where, y'know, I just really wanted to get out of there.
It was published as a minicomic in 1987. In 1999 I touched it up a bit, for whatever reason. It could use another round of corrections, but I haven't the energy right now.

From the Archive: Willie n' Twillie, 1988/2008

A distressing number of my comics begin as doodles. Here's a doodle I did in the early to mid 1980s which suggested the mannered, moralizing doggerel parody below.

(you may need to open these pages in a new browser window to be able to read them)

Willie n' Twillie first saw print in Acme Comics #9 in 1988. Two decades later, I drew it over better and typeset the copy for True Fiction #7, 2008.

For more examples of comics waiting to be born, check out my doodle blog.