HeyJaredDon Simpson Comix and Stories
Cartoonist and writer, creator of Megaton Man, Border Worlds, and Bizarre Heroes, PhD in Art and Architectural History. The place to watch works in progress unfold before your very eyes!
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Comic Book Rock Star (opens the original)
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I was recently chatting with an acquaintance who remarked that Barry Windsor-Smith (he was just Barry Smith when I first became acquainted with his work) can at times be querulous if not downright ornery. I made the observation that one has to give the guys some allowances; after all, he’s been a comic book rock star almost since he burst on the scene, particularly since Conan the Barbarian around 1970.Something about being that famous and that idolized by fans—even if he was making pretty lousy
Look Back in Anger, But Never Mellow (opens the original)
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I like to think that I’ve mellowed in recent years—that life experiences of various sorts have taken some of the edge off—and that I’m more easygoing, open to new experiences, and less judgmental of others.But evidence keeps mounting that I really haven’t changed, and that, as Rob Liefeld put it, I’ve “always been” an orifice that everyone’s got.Just a couple recent documents that have come to my attention—I have a procurer who scans these things and/or finds them on the internet (I’ll keep his
Art Blindness (opens the original)
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For those of us who draw comics or make art, and read and discuss the finer points of cartooning and sequential storytelling, there is one topic I have seldom seen discussed. There’s a truth hiding in plain sight that few people ever mention. Maybe it’s obscured by other considerations. Maybe it’s disguised. Maybe it’s overlooked.Artists who talk to one another and who talk to other creatives and discerning fans take it for granted that the style of one artist is clearly distinguishable from ano
Harry Potter: The Graphic Novel Series (opens the original)
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I have blogged elsewhere about my antipathy for author J.K. Rowling since December 2019, when she sneeringly Tweeted, “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security,” and so on, and how in my view this completely obviated the message of her most notable IP and amounted to a personal betrayal of her fans, many of whom had considered Harry Potter fandom a safe space for noconforming gender ident
My Memories of September 11, 2001 and After (opens the original)
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I was cutting the lawn in West View, a suburb of Pittsburgh, early on the morning of September 11, 2001. It a clear, sunshiny day, late summer or Indian Summer by my reckoning; kind of autumn but not yet fall.I put the mower away and went back into the house. I turned on the radio and sat and my Mac computer, which was basically my graphics workstation but also my internet connection. The radio was tuned to WDUQ, the public radio affiliate out of Duquesne University (now WESA), and NPR’s Morning
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