In Your Copious Free Time
John Keogh has been one of the most detailed (and simultaneously disturbing) webcomickers ever since the days of Lucid TV (which now exists only in the memories of those that followed the adventures in Jim Belushi Memorial Hospital). Every once in a while he pops up with an insanely detailed poster or album cover or tranche of comics. There is little warning when this happens; he just says Comics and there they are.
- In this case, on Twitter, with the first third of one damn hundred new comics. They’re all amazing, but I most enjoyed those titled Ultimate Hubris, Bread That Gets You High, Unbridled Male Sexuality, Uncle Boonmee Who Is Supposed To Be In Jail, West Coast Turnaround, Hungry Ghosts That Fear Iron Objects And Water, Kush Purp Strong Dro, Orange Julius Secret Menu Password = “Fucked Up Julius” Orange Julius Double Secret Menu Password = “Dark Julius … Strange, Painful Julius”¹, The Cult Of The Coiled Pepitone, Whose Hierophants Prowl With Impunity², and especially Slow Unemployed Loris.
Take your time. Breathe them in. There’s a lot of artistic brilliance and more than a little messing-with-us going on here. And if he’s not messing with us to another degree, there’s another 67 comics on the way. You can ask him about them if you’ll be in Boston this weekend, as he’ll be tabling at the Feminist Zine Fest with Hey, Pais creator (and Make That Thing asskicker at large) Sara McHenry. Sara’s great, John’s great, you’ll have a great time.
- Speaking of having a great time, on the first of May [audio, video], the new Oh Joy, Sex Toy book — one with purely educational comics — goes up on Kickstarter. You’ll want to look it up and back it; I’d remind you on the day, but I’ll be at Comics Camp, as will OJST co-creator Erika Moen; you’d be doing me a solid if, when she got off the plane home and checked her phone, she saw that thing cruising to full funding with extra to spare.
Other OJST co-creator Matthew Nolan will be working his brains to the bone³ to get the book and crowdfunding campaign ready for launch, and it would be great for him to meet his wife at the airport with the news that OJST Book 4 is running away with success. Do it for the children.
Spam of the day:
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¹ With bonus points for the New Yorker universal caption.
² With callback to Orange Julius Secret Menu Password = “Fucked Up Julius” Orange Julius Double Secret Menu Password = “Dark Julius … Strange, Painful Julius”.
³ Heh, “bone”.
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