Titles are useless: Interview at the Comics Beat

Q: So why is poetry useless?
A: [laughs] I don’t know if it is useless. The title says that, but I don’t know if we should trust titles to come to conclusions about actual things in the world.

An interview I did with Alex Deuben at Comics Beat just went up, here.

Marc and Anders 2015 West Coast Tour Sketchbook parts 5-7

Happenings in the press

BOOOOOOOM just put up a little interview with me on their site and they managed to make my book look very attractive. I think I might start requiring people to gather a nice rock, some tea and a bit of crochet before reading my work. Also there has to be a bit of sun coming in the window. How good does that look? Damn. They are also giving away a couple of copies of the book to people who leave a favorite poem in the comments section. I managed to shout out some favorite people in Chicago and elsewhere, and work in a little thing about how Benjamin Franklin supposedly had to be naked to get any writing done.

Summer Tour Dates

D+Q just announced dates for Marc Bell and my tour in Minneapolis and up the West Coast. I'm also doing a talk at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago on July 1st (somehow I got invited despite indicting their reason for being in my book's title) and of course I'll be at Autoptic back here in Minneapolis August 8th and 9th. If you're in one of these cities, come say hi. I'm really looking forward to reading from the book, and last time I toured with Marc his slide reading was epic.

On the evolution of vertebrates

I recently finished (more or less) a collection of the drawings and strips from my sketchbooks that I've been posting on this blog over the last six or seven years. Below are a few pages I drew while figuring out what I wanted to put on the book's spine (I spent way too much time last week designing some bookmarks using some of the spine outtakes). Below these is the spread where I worked out a statistical analysis of the book's index. Yeah, it has an index. A bit more about the book here. It's due out in late Spring.