Book-o-philes compare us to our heros!

McSweeney's? For real? Do you not realize that they are gods among men?
All has come full circle, we can now rest easy in our mortal graves.

This came from a newsletter sent by Asheville's most awesome independent bookstore, Malaprops, a place where we have been trying to get our cards in for years now. It took our NC sales rep, Steve, to get our foot in the door, it happened just recently, and Steve reports it is already their best selling card line.

Here it go:

We’re carrying a new line of cards from local letterpress company, Blue Barnhouse. These cards are beautiful, whimsical, and often darkly funny. If you’re a fan of McSweeney’s books, you’ll love the design and sentiments on these cards. Blue Barnhouse has a very strong local following. If you’re not familiar with their work, ask us about them next time you visit and we’ll lead you to them.

Be A Nose!

Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Daniel Clowes,
Godfathers of the Graphic Novel.

Finally a post where I don't have to write anything!

Cut and paste from the folks at McSweeneys:

Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, creator of Wacky Packs and the Garbage Pail Kids, and father of the modern graphic novel (though he's still demanding a blood test), presents this warts-and-all reproduction of his private sketchbooks — and the results are as candid, sharp, and funny as the relentlessly innovative man behind them. BE A NOSE! is a rare glimpse into the secret scribblings of an American original.


I doubt Spiegelman drew this one,
but I'm happy to have been included in the project.
It's true, I was black when I was a young lad.

Here is their description of the book:

It includes a triple dose of unexpurgated Spiegelman sketchbooks from years past—you get 1979, 1983, and 2007, all in actual-size hardbound editions and wrapped in a really neat ski-gogglelike strap, with Art's own musings and specially shaped pages and a just amazing amount of wit and weirdness and giddy, brilliant draftsmanship, enough on every page to keep you tided over through several grim news cycles, at least.



They posted a cool trailer for the book on you tube here.

You can buy the book here: store.mcsweeneys.net

Doing it from the back: The accidental Tshirt collection

"Got my buttfucking ghosts Tshirt," I wrote to Jon Adams, the creator of the above design. "Ist rad."

"Glad you like it," he replied, "but for the record, ghosts don't have buttholes."

Somehow, I had been added to Jon Adam's mailing list for his comic City Cyclops. When he announced that his company had been selected as one of the illustrators for McSweeney's 28, I started paying attention. I surfed his site a little, found this shirt, had a laugh, dropped some dough.

A few weeks later, I was searching for an AT-AT Tshirt that I saw Brian Posehn wearing in the Mongolian Beef Episode of the Sarah Silverman Show.


It wasn't too hard to find, but by the time I had found it, I had already decided on purchasing a much better version for a mere $8.


This shirt came from an ebay store called Shirt Stash, and is the only shirt worth a laugh in the store. The perfect touch of this Tshirt masterpiece is the submissive leg lift by the receiving AT-AT.

So far, I had two tshirts in which non-animal entities were hitting it from the back. I felt an obsession coming on, but I felt like a strict criteria must be adhered to... if I were to continue to buy Tshirts of this ilk, they had to feature unordinary objects or creatures in the act. I spent a few hours making a search for such Tshirts but with no luck what so ever.

Again, only a few weeks had passed, when I stumbled on this Tshirt called Pumpies on Etsy.


Though delighted at the prospect of owning a Tshirt of sexually depraved puppies, they did not have my size available. I moved on, searching for silkscreened goodies on Etsy. I was not looking for anything "in the act," but within the hour, I stumbled upon DirtyRagz, a Tshirt company clearly obsessed with things mounting other things from the rearside. I bought two shirts--



and


the second T does not quite fit my original criteria, and it's not exactly crotch to butt action, but clearly some fondling is in the works, with the potential and positioning for mounting it from the rear... it was close enough.

I enlightened the DirtyRagz folks about my growing collection. They sent me an image for another Tshirt that belonged in the family, but at this point I was broke and told them I would have to get it later. But when I got my shirts in the mail, I was floored to find that they went ahead and sent it to me anyways.



Goat on Bull action. Gay and cross species. There is hope yet for humanity. I don't have enough BFing Tshirts for every day of the week just yet, but I'm only going to be wearing these to work, so 5 business days will do for now.