Sunday, November 19, 2017

:Diary Comics (2006-2015)

My second book is compiled from selected diary comics 2006 - 2015, including zine material and previously unpublished comic panels. Intro essay by Tessa Laird: The cat has herpes, the kids have worms, the chicken has mites, and Bryce has an assortment of ailments beyond his digestive tract, including a spasming eye, aching knees, haemorrhoids, stiff neck, tinnitus, and even fleas! Additionally, 'the wife' accuses Bryce of having dementia. This is one of many criticisms she levels at him, which fits the artist-as-martyr model like a glove. Yet what emerges is not a portrait of a henpecked husband so much as a radically egalitarian domestic partnetship in which the wife, in all her fiery glory, speaks her mind, keeps Bryce on his toes and, when necessary, bursts his art-martyr bubble. Pikitia Press 2017. RRP $20

Friday, July 14, 2017

Issue 63

"The hippie inside me always expects our paired days to run impossible synchronicities, like we're subconsciously communicating through the cosmic telephony of ley lines. We avoid Facebook chat during these diary stints, like that would be cheating."
The 7th diary comic with Daniel Powell. July 2017

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Issue 62

Episode 5 of the dreaded teen diary: "What were you thinking!?" - Kim Hill. Not articulate enough to dig deeper, teenage me was satisfied to list every cigarette smoked, every bedroom guitar practice, every work shift... bouts of extreme drunkenness and relationship angst are portioned out just as ploddingly as anything else. Uncensored. Feb 2017.