Books I've read since 2009 Started....

Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson (finished it this a.m.)
Kalfka by R. Crumb and David Zane Mariowitz (thank you G. Maaaaaa!)
Final Exits by Michael Largo (when nothing else will do)
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollen (it was no Omnivore's Dillemma, the content would have been better delivered as a website, or a podcast)
Omnivore's Dillemma (Oddly, it made me want to go hunting, and also it deepened my love for the Chicken!)
Cancer Vixen (Really a page turner, which was wierd because reading a story about a self-obsessed New Yorker with breast cancer doesn't seem that great, but it was really great, dispite somewhat weak art)
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person (good, not great. But it would be a good gift for someone with the cancer)
World War Z (F*ck Yeah! Total Page Turner! OMG! It's so great, I'm loaning it to one friend, and when he gives it back, I'm mailing it to buddies in China! Which also lead to a viewing of Dawn of the Dead, like when did Zombies start being able to run pell-mell? And the zombie birthing scene....arg!)
American Splendor Anthology (but, really, who doesn't read a little Pekar every month!?)

Movies:
What's New Pussycat? (Peter Sellers and Woody Allen's first collaboration!)
Casino Royale (Peter Sellers and Woody Allen in this early JAMES BOND movie! Hilarious)


You might observe that there's not a whole lot of books about Sustainability on that list....my brain needs a break. So, got any good books to recommend?

Smudges and All #1

New autobiographical comic. Enjoy! To really be able to read the text, just click on the image.

Sarria! Sarria! Sarria! The life and times of the Widow Norton!

So, I have started on a new project, and these are some preliminary sketches for my new project. I've started to research a biography of of Jose Sarria, a.k.a. the Empress Dowager Norton.
Here are a few exciting things I have found out in my first month of research:

1. Jose Sarria was the first openly gay person to run for public office in the US, in 1961. At the time his day job was as singing waiter in drag at SF's famous Black Cat.
2. Jose Sarria married SF's infamous Emperor Norton, posthumously in a ceremony attended by drag kings and queens, Clampers and some minister!
   
3. When he retired from public life (the second time!) he left San Francisco by hot air balloon from city hall!
4. He founded many of the early gay-rights organizations, including SIR (Society for Individual Rights), Tavern Guild, and led early gay activists into partnerships with churches for greater understanding.

So that's some of the excitement in my life! Here are some preliminary sketches. The ones in victorian dress are the Empress Norton, the one with the beret is 1984 at Pride, and the cool-boy is from his 1946 Berlin Identification.

Anyone interested in collaboration?