tmills:

Christian (DeepOmega) always bears the brunt of my “ape sign language” excitement. Him and Emily. I’m not very vocal about it on here or anywhere else. Communicating with animals is, and has always been, an interest of mine. Did you know that some bonobos can talk to you? Did you know that some gorillas can talk about their feelings? There’s always a danger in anthropomorphizing. But listen, we are also animals. For too long has the godly line in the sand of communication been drawn.

It’s true, and I’m fine with it. Tell me more, Tully.

fuck you poetry

We Scorn The Things We Think Most Effortless

We scorn the things we think most effortless
Tho knowing they’re much harder than they feel
The heart to striving does not acquiesce

For even when we know we would do less
And all our work lacks artists’ true appeal
We scorn the things we think most effortless

Hard work will never manage to impress
When surely our own skill seems far more real
The heart to striving does not acquiesce

And so it is that poet’s tenderness
Transforms to words which on the page congeal
We scorn the things we think most effortless

For savage words by writer’s deft caresse
Seem like a well-trained dog that’s brought to heel
The heart to striving does not acquiesce

No matter how the writer does profess
That they alone could poetry reveal
We scorn the things we think most effortless
The heart to striving does not acquiesce

mattfractionblog:

As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, SAGA is a series for the proverbial “mature reader.” Unfortunately, because of two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex, Apple is banning tomorrow’s SAGA #12 from being sold through any iOS apps. This is a drag, especially because our book has featured what I would consider much more graphic imagery in the past, but there you go. Fiona and I could always edit the images in question, but everything we put into the book is there to advance our story, not (just) to shock or titillate, so we’re not changing shit.

Apologies to everyone who reads our series on iPads or iPhones, but here are your alternatives for Wednesday:

1) Head over to you friendly neighborhood comics shop and pick up a physical copy of our issue that you can have and hold forever.

2) While you’re at it, don’t forget to support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which helps protect retailers who are brave enough to carry work that some in their communities might consider offensive. You can find signed copies of Saga at the CBLDF site right now.

3) Download the issue directly through sites like https://comics.imagecomics.com or on your non-Apple smartphone or tablet.

4) If all else fails, you might be able to find SAGA #12 in Apple’s iBookstore, which apparently sometimes allows more adult material to be sold than through its apps. Crazy, right?

Anyway, special thanks to Eric Stephenson and everyone at Image for supporting our decision, and for always being so supportive of creators. Sorry again to readers for the inconvenience, but I hope everyone will be able to find an issue that Fiona and I are particularly proud of. And after you do, please check out PanelSyndicate.com , the new digital comics site I own with artist Marcos Martin, which remains 100% uncensored by corporate overlords.

Your pal,

Brian

Walled Gardens.