hey, remember my comic Billy Gohl? well, I’ll be posting pages once a week over here. check it out, let me know what you think?
I’ll also go back to posting pages of Reich, probably weekly also. posting things on a daily basis was causing me problems. I’ll throw some other stuff on there eventually too. We’ll see how long I can go before I drunkenly screw up my website again.
comics
kirby interview
uploaded by Kirby dynamics
I’m posting it here so I can listen to the whole thing later.
still kicking
I’m still around and about. I’m doing stuff here and there, working the dayjob, trying to finish up some old ideas that have floundered. I’m trying to figure my life out which is not as easy as daytime talk shows make it sound. I need to start posting more stuff here, give people a reason to visit this bullshit site. I’m thinking that the internet is shifting away from specific sites and working into a different form. I’m sure five years from now we’ll look at websites the same way we look at message boards now. The future is going to be all cloud based push notifications to devices I can’t even fathom. In the mean time I should probably make the most of it and start writing here again.
I can guarantee it’s all going to be posts like this though. Random after-work thoughts and posts about posting stuff. We’ll see how it goes.
in the meantime you should socially network with me through twitter (@elijahbrubaker) facebook (facebook.com/elijah.brubaker) and tumblr (elijahbrubaker.tumblr.com)
sparkplug
Sparkplug comic books, my publisher, probably the best thing to happen in comics in the past twenty years, is raising funds. One of the projects they’re looking to fund is my own book Reich. Please donate to this and you’ll have my eternal gratitude. I haven’t really talked with the Sparkpluggers about this yet but I’ll probably throw in some extra swag for folks that donate at the 25 dollar level.
digital copies
Please note that I’ve made .cbz files available of Blue moon 5 and 6 in my store as well as a pdf of issue 5. I’m still figuring this all out so, y’know if you have any problems downloading the files please let me know. Not liking my comics doesn’t count as a problem, you don’t get your money back for thinking I’m a shitty cartoonist. there will be other file types available soon as well as issue 7 and other books and projects. Seriously, I’m in uncharted waters with this junk. any pointers or suggestions would be awesome.
This is the app I use to read cbz files on the ipad.
Moebius
I just got home and kicked off my shoes and settled into my routine of checking the internet for news and random silly facebook shit only to find out Moebius passed away. Sad news. he was a great cartoonist, a natural, gifted and interesting cartoonist. I can’t fully describe the way he changed comics. I’m not a comics historian and I certainly am no expert on the man. I can say though, that he helped erect much of the architecture of my childhood. From Heavy Metal to his film work, it seemed like his fingers and pen were in every decent thing I gazed at.
I was lucky to meet him once, long ago in the 90′s, which in comics, is ancient history. I was wandering the San Diego show. I was eighteen or nineteen maybe. I was intimidated by all the “real” cartoonists around and I was simultaneously becoming sick of many of the cliches we now think of when we think of comics of the 90′s. Image knock-offs and horribly crosshatched grimacing faces, characters named BloodSkull and KillRascal9000. Maybe it was just a slow couple of minutes but I noticed Moebius behind a table, I was surprised he wasn’t surrounded by fans the same way the Image comics guys were.
I normally don’t approach people, even people I admire. I’m still proud of myself that I mustered the courage to shake his hand. He was really energetic and seemed like a happy guy. He shook my hand like he knew who I was. I started talking about comics but it quickly progressed into weightier topics that were so over my head. He looked at my sketchbook and was polite about it. He noticed that I was interested in psychedelics and suggested a bunch of books I should read. He also suggested in a polite way that I should learn how to draw before experimenting with drugs. It was good advice that I didn’t follow at all.
our conversation lasted only minutes, I’m sure. I doubt we had any real connection but that was the singular thing that has ever happened to me at a San Diego show. I did hit on Kevin Eastman’s wife once because I was drunk. That’s a fond memory from San Diego also, but it’s a distant second.
store
Hey y’all. I’m starting to put some stuff into the shop. I think everything works the way it’s supposed to. I’ll have all the issues of Reich available and more minicomics and stuff coming soon. go here.
update: I guess the checkout part of the shop isn’t working. not really a surprise since I could fuck up a cup of coffee. I’ve been noodling with it all day with no real luck. probably something really simple I’m not doing. anyway, check back later. sorry for being stupid.
Update 2: I think the thing is working now. send me an email or leave a comment if you have any issues buying crap. Thanks.
Hey Austin, Texas
Theodor Kittelsen, Troll, 1906 this painting was used as the…
Theodor Kittelsen, Troll, 1906
this painting was used as the cover for the edition of Peer Gynt I own. The play was read as research for Reich. Wilhelm Reich wrote a clinical analysis of peer gynt for his introduction to the Vienna Psychoanalytic association. I thought for a long time that the play would factor into the end of Reich as the play has certain thematic similarities to Reich’s life and I think Ibsen and I share certain storytelling proclivities. alas, it was not to be. I thumbnailed a few pages that incorporated the play into Reich’s recollections and life but it felt strange and disconnected from the rest of the book.