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Green Verses
This comic was begun about a year ago, after a sort of variety show that my friend Tony Groutsis curated. There were songs sung, poetry read and slideshows performed. I did a slideshow for one of my comics, and Kevin Kinsella read some of the poems of Sasha Chernyi that he’d been translating. I loved these poems; they were so simple and visual, morose and funny. Later on Kevin wrote me to tell me he liked my slideshow, and I got the idea to adapt this poem into a comic, which you can now find in the May issue of The Believer.
It was a charmed night. Katie Fowley of Lightful Press was also there and now this fall there will be a collection of Kevins translations of Chernyis poems.
You can read more of Sasha Chernyis work translated by Kevin here.
This is All I’ve Got, the end.
This is all I’ve got, part two (of three)
This is All I’ve Got
As much as I hate to publish unpolished, unedited, unfinished work, I hate even more to have nothing to show at all…and I’m fresh out of good reusable reruns…so this is a fragmented diary of my trip to Stockholm, where I still am now. Actually, I didn’t even make it past the first morning here. Actually, this comic is everything that you hate about autobiographical comics, and I enjoyed drawing every detail.
I’ll try to post the rest of this weekend throughout the rest of this week…does that make sense? It’s late here. And I apologize to all of you in this in this comic who I’ve rendered badly. I promise you look better in real life.
If you click on the image twice it will be big enough to read, if you really want to do that.
p.s.-thanks to Johannes Klenell for letting me use a scanner at the Galago offices so I could upload this on time.













