Kelly Tindall

I'm irritated at the change from 'emotional, with one good fight per issue' to 'Hasbro universe bla-bla with a pointless shock every two or three issues'.

I can't handle schedules so I'll just do it every hour I'm awake

"MATTT... BERRYYY... impRESHionnNNnns!"

Out of print, alas. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for a deal.

I hate it when I discover a book I think I would like, but it appears to be out of print. The latest? THE ADVENTURES OF JODELLE, from 1967.

Tiny doodle

One of the best Metroid tie-ins ever. I love this thing.

I would be hooped if I had trouble sleeping.

Gotchas do not work with these people.

I feel bad for folks that have a hard time sleeping. It's not something I've ever had to deal with, but it sounds like just The Worst.

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

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Watched MORE YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T, which was impressively terrible from top to bottom. When a character in his twenties was identified as having a literal WWII Nazi for a father, I looked at my wife and she said, "Don't."

A very small part of tabling at shows means, unfortunately, being part of someone else's weird sex thing.

Sounds really nice, actually.

Picked up the Marvel UK Transformers compendium. Like the American ones before it, it's a beast.

Don’t let them take silly away from you

Those came out really nice, David!

A lot of professional comics work is doing shit that is not comics. Graphic design, accounting, answering emails. Just let me draw my stupid comics.

Tobinheimer

What a monster!

I asked a guy where he got a t-shirt with a cool design on it, and he said he didn't remember, which is hard for me to accept because I know exactly when and where I bought every single item of clothing I own.

Is there some sort of double shingles, like a way worse version? He can have that.

Did they not know already? I want them to know!

A must-read!

I'd watch three or four of these!

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

That Chris Pine D&D movie rules very hard. It's as good as the first GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.

Threads makes you click two buttons just to get to your own feed. The rest is obvious ragebait from the ignorant and gullible.

Art is valuable…and not solely as reactive “self-care” as a “reward” for doing “enough activism” on a seesaw ad perpetuum.