My next door neighbor recently turned me on to the comic book Stray Bullets, which I’d been meaning to read for a while. To my surprise, it’s nothing like other crime/noir comics. It’s a series of “slice of life” stories about people who happen to be criminals. The writer/artist/publisher David Lapham has published the first four issues for free online
Innocence of Nihilism: Free Reads
You can also buy the first volume on Amazon.
Morrison has mentioned in interviews before that this is some of his favorite work.
(via Barbelith)
One of the best interviews I’ve read with Grant Morrison has been published by Sequential Tart.
Perhaps I’m unnaturally attuned to unreal worlds and characters. At an important time in my life, between the ages of 12 and 19, I was practically autistic at home. I had a lot of fun at a boys school during the day but evenings were grim beyond Morrissey’s most rueful yodellings, spent huddled in our flat above the Finefare, drawing my own homemade comic books and writing fantasy novels with cock in hand (see Flex Mentallo #3 ). I believe utterly in the ‘reality’ of fictional characters and assume that they all exist independently of my imagination with needs and requirements of their own, like Buddhist tulpa thoughtforms. I’ve always felt that my best writing is more like channeling the voices and adventures of real characters doing this stuff in a real place – the comic as it exists in the future perhaps. Call me crazy if you like but it’s working very well for me so I’m unlikely to be convinced at this stage that my conclusions are mistaken.
Sequential Tart: Punching Holes Through Time Grant Morrison
(via Barbelith)
Ever wanted to produce an album for your favorite band? If your favorite band is Einsturzende Neubauten, you’re about to get your chance. EN is going to broadcast their jam sessions and lab experiments (recording sessions) live to get user feedback.
Official Einsturzende Neubauten website (via Barbelith)
Update: The results of this project are a part of Supporter Album No. 1
St Mark’s Secondary School in Mhondoro was closed due to allegations by parents, teachers, and students that the headmaster possessed invisible goblins that sexually harassed female teachers and students.
Zimbabwe Daily News: Headmaster flees as hysteria grips school
(via Post Atomic)
Eric Vinten, “famous for the numerous tattoos that cover his body,” will auction his skin to provide for his children’s future. The rest of Vinten’s body will be buried according to Christian tradition. Although exquisite tattoos have been preserved in the US and Japan, the writer of the article notes that Vinten is likely to have trouble registering his will in Great Britain.
Pravda: A man hopes to provide future for his four children by selling his own skin at an auction
(via New World Disorder).
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