Hagai Palevsky (he/him)

Hergé’s gun:

This gun has killed Tintin for real this time… ope! Nevermind

apropos of nothing, here’s Moebius reading KRAMERS ERGOT #4

(There’s some good stuff in that category—the Georges Perec short in UPSIDE DAWN comes to mind—but I generally prefer the stuff that isn’t an overt mashup, like HEY, WAIT… and I KILLED ADOLF HITLER.)

Has there been any substantial longform writing on the works of Jason (Norwegian cartoonist)? I would love to see someone try to “figure him out” on a deeper level than just the obvious high-meets-low mashups, because I never can tell how I feel about that strain of his work…

Gosh! Comics, London
Little Deer Comics, Dublin

it’s What’s the Point Tuesday. What’s the point

the song “Lizard Suit” by the Mountain Goats has such a distinct alt-comics vibe yet I cannot for the life of me decide which cartoonist it would be by

being a BOY means relating to DANIEL CLOWES. but being a MAN means relating to CHRIS WARE

best part of LOVE AND MERCY (Brian Wilson biopic) is the way that Bruce Johnston is introduced and then continues to have no plot function whatsoever. like yeah

(Only the first issue was self-published, then picked up and reprinted by Fanta — this is the first Fanta run, issues #1–50.)

besides the point obv but I think you’re the youngest person I know who has a landline

Thanks to this stupid evil pointless war my sole work project has been put on hold 👍 now unemployed for the first time since 2020 👍

dear Bartleby the Scrivener… I get it

“We must destroy the Spectacle itself, the whole apparatus of the commodity society... We must abolish the pseudo-needs and false desires which the system manufactures daily in order to preserve its power.” ― Guy Debord "Ding ding." ― The Crazy Frog

looking at old writing files and hoping that this epigraph makes it out into the world someday

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Best short prose stories?

(Some of my favorites: “The Overloaded Man,” Ballard; “I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone,” Brautigan; “World Memory,” Calvino.)

And now: a Coconino love story.

New twelve-page comic drawn by @bmure.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or download a high-res .pdf for a price of your choosing (process files also available for purchase):

hagaipalevsky.itch.io/coconino

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Pitt Faces

every time I reach a dangerous level of emotional sincerity in a text-based conversation with someone I am obligated to bust out one of these photos of Chris Ware to make sure there is still some degree of ironic distancing

either carl or dennis wilson on lead

beach boys should’ve covered “something” by the beatles in the ‘70s

my silver and orange torbie cat super mario standing normally, but I have drawn a bunch of white lines and stars around her to emphasize her

super mario is four years old today

god I love your Textures

paintings I finished yesterday

8 x 8” acrylic on masonite panel

I gotta check it out!

it’s There’s No Point to Anything Tuesday. there’s no point to anything

Claire looks at basically all of my scripts and offers extremely valuable insight. Reach out for #ExtremeValue

wait what