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Here is a link* LINK *linke
where they are being all uploaded.
(under construction)

 

Plans
•Upload a big quilt of them

THERE ARE NO MASTER RACES

“There are NO MASTER RACES!” A comic I had not seen before.

The Art and History of Lettering in Comics

By March 2023, more than four years since I had begun, I had lost confidence my book would ever come out from Abrams, and I decided to publish it myself on my blog. Over the next ten months I converted my manuscript to a series of blog articles. At the same time, with no restrictions on length or number of images (rights and permissions were not an issue since I make no income from my blog), I expanded most of the material, added new images and research (with help from Alex Jay), and wrote quite a few completely new articles to fill out areas I had previously skimmed over to save space. In the end, I had 75 blog articles that would make up the bulk of my online book.

-Todd Klein

 

Notions of the Sacred

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“sacrilege” gets autocorrected by a computer, which is using a language model, as “sacrifice” amidst snorting at “humanities-oriented” people who “cherish the mystery and the ineffable essential nature of human thought and language.”

 

The Way is Shut

I’ve been enjoying listening to the podcasts and podcast guest appearances of Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist and Hoosier. You can find links at his blog here. I started with his appearance on Bungacast and then took notice enough to follow him to all of these other places.

 
 

Subscribe to "F" in 2024

“NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO…”

Here’s a Limited Time offer (?) for January and February.

Subscribe for 2024 directly from the FSHOP

Are you a subscriber? Wanna try it? Wanna come back, but avoid all the Patreon packaging?

Remember, I don’t care either way, so you may as well do it!

Subscribers get: e-zines most months, all print zines I make during the subscription (approx. 5/year), plus anything I self-publish. You also get bonus stuff like prints or zines that I only make for subscribers.

some of what went out in the mail in 2023

There is a ton of unpublished content in these “F” electronic zines…on the other hand maybe for a good reason: it’s not good? You decide!

 

The higher level subscribers (currently only available through Patreon) also have received custom drawings, studio detritus, and get first “crack” anytime I get around to selling new “original art”. (secret link for upcoming sales). Occasionally you also get discount codes you can apply to new items that appear in the FShop or Hidden Store.

OK So

you can subscribe on Patreon here: (LINK)

or

you can subscribe directly from me here (RECOMMENDED) (LINK),

or whatevs

Year Subscription to "F" for 2024
Year Subscription to "F" for 2024
$80.00
 

Instagram Refresh

Refreshing the connection between my Instagram (“free”) and Squarespace Blog (~$300/year)

subscribers, watch the mail
Electronic magazine "F" number 5 (2024) is up for subscribers. 48 "pages," with sketchbook, post-tour posts, and new work on "Alla Prima" for Fielder 3.
Upcoming tour dates - @partnersandson MOCCA comics fest NYC, @zinenotdead
Fielder 3.1 and Comix College Chicago 1.1 will go out in the mail in a few weeks to subscribers.
The "F" e-zine for subscribers is up (number 4 for 2024)
Some of the pigeon parts from my book The Wild Kingdom. The source for the cover design is in the last slide. I don’t know if have ever credited that swipe anywhere. Originally by Cornelius De Witt, who I have “drawn from” other tim
“The Curse,” from CURSES. I almost called the book “The Curse” and almost called it “Curses: Stories.” The softcover is out February 20. #starlings #curses #the curse #glennganges #kevinhuizenga
Two new “F” e-zines are up for subscribers.
Pages from The Wild Kingdom, drawn in 2009. “We invented forgiveness and forgive nothing” is Whitman quoting WS Merwin in a toothpaste commercial.

Look at How Beautiful Things Used To Be

BLOGGER ERA DESIGN. I don’t even know if, when I clicked on the email, I clicked on spam, but I was stopped in my tracks, I gasped, I was struck dumb, etc., by what was on the screen before me, what a beautifully designed web page! Was this the golden era of design? Ha ha I’m joking. Anyway I searched and not even Reddit had anything about a "Blogger legacy claim spam” or scam, yet the URL was weird: it ended in a “dot g.” I don’t want to write it out…it was fishy.

O, tell me, will the Substacks become the Blogsnarks, and the TikToks the Yahoos, as we slowly adjust our climate control and grocery shopping habits, as we raise our grandkids? As we log into our MyCharts? We have some secret Yahoo email accounts, we have some secret Twitters. Will we keep them up, will they be entered into our legacy? our “If I die, here are my passwords?” Burn it all in the yard, all the letters, is probably best, if you’re worried about it. Will the Archies bleed into the Love and Rockets, the Mickeys into the Spongebobs? What will become of Bart Simpson, O Death? We click away, our nation turns its lonely eyes to shadow work, to breathwork, to our anger management class workbook.