I painted & designed the cover for the upcoming collection of short fiction by one of my favorite living authors, Joanna Walsh! It’s great: so very smart, funny and strange.
We’ll be dissipating a selection of recent artwork as well as selling his recent book JACOB BLADDERS AND THE STATE OF THE ART from Uncivilized Books, as well as other publications. “Forget about pens being mightier than swords. Roman Muradov’s pen is more like an exploding bomb. There is so much graphic innovation in this book that Muradov can hardly contain it in a panel. It’s exciting to see this much talent let loose on a piece of white paper. Beauty and chaos in perfect harmony.” — SETH, Author of Palookaville
Roman Muradov signs here on Saturday and Quimbys NYC has their grand opening next door. Block party!
NEW YORK! I’ll be in you on Friday for the Society of Illustrators Gala, then signing at Desert Island on Saturday, then on the 8th, I’m doing a free lecture at Ben Katchor’s Comics Symposium.
Also, if you can lend me your couch for a night or two, drop me a line.
“But also cartooning, also comix here—Muradov’s jutting anarchic tangles, often recoiling from the panel proper, recall George Herriman’s seminal anarcho-strip Krazy Kat. (Whether or not Muradov intends such allusions is not the point at all. Rather, what we see here is a continuity of the form’s best energies). Like Herriman’s strip, Muradov’s tale moves under the power of its own dream logic (more of a glide here than Herriman’s manic skipping).”
Bookplate I painted for Superheros, a bookshop in Paris–you can get one with the first 100-so copies of my French collection Aujourd'hui Demain Hier, signed and numbered by me.
The only place to get it outside Paris is at my signing TOMORROW! Don’t miss it if you’re in San Francisco. I’ll be reading my shorter fictions and drawing portraits. Here’s the book in question.
In yesterday’s NYT I wrote and drew a thing on the subject of fear, along with many of my friends.
The fear that the only thing connecting us is our failure to connect.
It was originally a completely different style, then I woke up next day and decided to redo it, which I did in halfhour, right before the deadline. I’ll write more about the process on my patreon later.