brianwood

congrats to Mandarin on her set going up today! that girl rocks my socks off.

Tempe, Arizona. The first place to go when the social order completely unravels.

I've lived all over Brooklyn and Manhattan, and I have never felt more unsafe than walking the streets of Tempe after dark.

The Fiesta Bowl was in town, so it was teeming with football fans. Fireworks were exploding everwhere, and fleets of Apache attack helicopters flew overhead for some kind of rah-rah...
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This Sunday, Jan 2, I'll be at Ash Ave Comics in Tempe, Arizona, for their 2nd anniversary party. Hopefully bright-eyed and alert, although word on the street has those crazy AZ locals boozing me up the night before. No one better put a scorpion in my boot.

the info:

Ash Avenue Comics & Books
810 S. Ash Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: 480-858-9447
ashavecomics@yahoo.com
2-5pm...
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looking for people to help me out with an upcoming comic book series:

if you live in a smallish, reasonably hip city or town in America or Canada and are willing to tell me about it, email me. i'm mostly thinking of college
towns or places with good progressive, indie-minded communities (for
lack of a better term), like Portland, Burlington, Madison, Olympia,
Austin, Ithaca, Seattle,...
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sometimes the business end of my art gets very frustrating and depressing.

writing and drawing books is my living now, my career, one that chose me more than i chose it. despite the fact that money is involved and i have bills to pay, yadda yadda, its more of a creative expression than a commercial venture. i dont want finances to govern my decisions.

but...
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Dear Suicide Girls,

I love you all to bits and pieces.

Love,
Brian

FAQ:

No, I don't usually look like my picture. Truth is, I hate shaving and usually go for weeks at a time, letting my scruff grow. When I do shave, sometimes I like to have a little fun and make myself look like a creepy, sociopathic hick, take pics and make my pals laugh.

I grew up in Vermont, where 75% of the kids I...
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