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554; The Fiction Generator. I went to lunch today at a new market-slash-sandwich place that just opened in my neighborhood. It was really good! The market (and neighborhood) is the type to offer fancy organic cold-pressed juice for eleven dollars and artisanal almond milk that comes in something that looks like baby food jars, so when I got this fork to eat my side salad with, at first I wasn’t sure if it was something exotic and fancy: I used the strange fork to eat my salad and was pleased to find that it worked really well! The tiny serrations on the tip helped spear the individual salad leaves very securely. “Aha,” I thought, “someone has improved upon the simple fork!” I went up and asked the guy behind the counter if all his forks were like this, and he laughed and assured me they were not. I went back to work with my head spinning. Had I been struck by the sort of coincidental circumstance that led to the invention of Post-Its, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, and representative democracy??

Look at that thing. Again With the Comics: Chris Ware’s Floyd Farland: Citizen of the Future. I’ve been following the work of Chris Ware for many years now, beginning with the second issue of Acme Novelty Library, which I purchased on sight at a small Florida convention back in 1993. His precise, diagrammatic art style is a perfect complement to his incisive narratives of personal failure and alienation.

His graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) looks at a grandfather's miserable childhood to examine the events that shaped the titular man-child and his empty, unfulfilled life. Ware continues to amaze with once-yearly installments of Acme Novelty Library, and is currently dissecting the life of belligerent man-child collector Rusty Brown, via digressions into the past histories of Rusty’s Father and his best friend Chalky White.

Regardless of the subject, no one else makes comics quite like Chris Ware, which leads one to wonder where all that talent came from. The story takes place in “the future” where technology and overpopulation have ruined society. Dresden Codak. Gunshow – a comic – it's not for children - updates monday and friday. Vault 12 comic - page 1. Gone with the Blastwave - Type E webcomic. SUBNORMALITY! All content copyright Winston Rowntree, 2015. Museum previously seen here and then here. Garfield minus garfield. Untitled Document. The secret knots. Pictures for sad children. Rosscott, Inc. I just know I’m going to see this thing on the Internet without my name on it very very soon.

Oh well. If you want a 11″ x 17″ poster of this, it’s a mere $10 plus shipping! You can buy it with the big yellow button on the side OR just click here. I’ll be bringing the new book (soon to be in the online store) to a bunch of conventions, along with t-shirts, ties, prints, and tote bags. PAX East(Boston, MA / Next Weekend) Going with my girlfriend and hanging out! Awesome Con(Washington, DC / April 18 – 20th) I’ll have a table with the Super Art Fight gang, who will be performing on Sunday! My New Apartment (Washington, DC / April 25th) Seriously, I’m moving in with my girlfriend. Super Art Fight at the Black Cat! Anime Expo(Los Angeles, CA / July 3rd – July 6th)I’ll have a table in Artist Alley with the Super Art Fight crew, and we’ll be doing shows all weekend.

Otakon(Baltimore, MD / August 8 – August 10th)I’ll have a table in Artist Alley! Piled Higher and Deeper. Nuklear Power. Hyper Death Babies. The Perry Bible Fellowship. Atheists. 275. FreakAngels. Married To The Sea - 2,000+ comics by Drew & Natalie Dee - Updates 5 days/wk at midnight. Explosm.net - Home of Cyanide & Happiness.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.