You ever go to a show or something and come home wanting to start a rock band? Alternately, do you ever read something and feel like your dick's been cut in half? That's what happened last night after I plowed through Shortcomings, aka Optic Nerve v. 9 to 11. It's funny what an omnibus will do for a comic book. It can make it prohibitively good.
So, Adrian signed his books last night in Brooklyn, and I got to see some old friends. Gotta say it's a little weird to be an industry outsider. You know, like I have to listen to everyone now (rolling eyes), instead of telling them what's wrong with Publishing These Days.
Meanwhile, I had lamented my "freelance writer" status to a fellow freelancer friend very recently, who quickly interrupted me with a disgusted shiver and said:
Take out the word "freelance." Just say "writer."
I sense soon I'll be one of those morons who when asked what I do will get all defensive and say something like, "Tch. Of course that's all you're interested in. MY STATUS (cue neck roll). I am (pause) just (longer pause) living..." (as I slowly tap my chest with a microphone grip fist and walk away shaking my head to some Junior Boys song playing in the background.)
If loving myself is wrong...I don't wanna be a writer.
Whatever man. The New York Times would never run a review of dick-halving works of art. Point is, A. Tomine is on to something. Go get this book and start arguing about white-asian dating already.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
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6 comments:
That sounds fresh. I read the individual issues as they came out and definitely enjoyed it (9 more than 11, but...), and wonder if i'll enjoy it more when i see it presented as a complete book.
I actually managed to snag Mr. Tomine for a visit to the Goog in mid-Novemeber :) My plan is to force him to eat a dangerously luxurious smorgasbord of corporate lunching. You know what I'm talking about.
awww yeah. Google wheatgrass fountain, truffle-burger with starfruitmole...
mmmm
1. BUST magazine wasn't so enthusiastic about Shortcomings. Poor Adrian, he finally gets a bad review.
2. You'll always be more than a freelance writer to me!
-Eric
You know Eric, I know another woman reviewer who hated it...an Asian woman. I actually know a hefty dozen or so Asian women who don't like his writing but who respect his work. I have always been amazed by his artwork but also confused about his apologetic writing, but like I says, it's amazing what compiling fragments into a GN will do for a comic book.
oh, and awww.
Anne, it's not "writer" or "freelance writer." It's "I'm unemployed."
hahahaha...Tom, Tom, Tom.
always bringing people down to size...but then again, you're just a blogger.
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