Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29th, 2007
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May all beings cease empire building.....
[Cartoon description: A table sits at an angle, almost tipping over, at the lower left corner of the picture. An orange colored creature/man raises an orange glass filled with a red skull and says I toast the Empire. A blue creature fills the entire right side of the picture and cries pink tears.]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/i-toast-the-empire.jpg
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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[This cartoon is free, etc. Please vote wisely, and ask with discretion ;-)]
Cartoon description: A white dude says I'm voting for Hillary. Now show me your tits while giving the thumbs up.
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/im-voting-for-hillary.jpg
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
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In April 2006, Ms. H. and I incorporated as an L.L.C. the publishing company Homofactus Press [2]. In August 2006 we debuted with my book, Self-Organizing Men [3], recently called "mold-breaking [4]" by Charlie Anders in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online. One year later we will publish The Marrow's Telling [5] by Eli Clare.
All the result of starting my blog in March 2005 [6] and continuing with the beginnings of my cartooning hobby.
Yet I haven't posted a cartoon for awhile now. In fact I've not drawn, even, for awhile. It seems the realities of running a publishing company oppose the realities of running a cartoon blog. Yet one would not exist without the other. This tension seems somehow related to creating a space inside of me that is bigger than last year. Which means what, I have no idea.
"I don't know." "I have no idea." I say these two things a lot these days. Ms. H. seems more beautiful to me with each passing day. Mr. Jack, the originator of Catnip Cat, leaps about with renewed vigor, or am I just paying attention more? Better?
People make Homofactus Press the success it is today. People. All of them different from me yet exactly me and beautiful in every way.
Someone asked me recently if I wanted to change the world. "No," I said. "The world changes on its own, whether I want it to or not."
I love all these wonderful people I'm meeting and working with and publishing and even love that I haven't cartooned in a while. Everything is at is.
And here I am today, posting something in what seems like eons in the blogging world. A cartoon, even.
Everything is as it is. Just feeling observational of my current situation.
[Cartoon description: "The world changes with us or without us." A man responds, "no shit!"]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/the-world-changes-with-us.jpg
[2] http://www.homofactuspress.com
[3] http://www.homofactuspress.com
[4] http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=3866&catid=160
[5] http://jaysennett.com/2007/06/20/eli-clares-soon-to-be-released-new-book-the-marrows-telling/
[6] http://jaysennett.com/2005/03/18/what-ive-learned-being-a-man/
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
[Disclaimer: I co-own HfP.]
Alas, publishing this second book seemed to consume so much time. Thanks to loyal remaining two readers of this blog!
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[1]We are pleased to announce the upcoming release later this summer of our second book The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion. A collection of poetry and prose, it spans 15 years, organized not as memoir but as an exploration of how bodies carry history and identity over time. Embracing contradiction and repetition, this work maps itself around embodied experiences of disability, race, gender transgression and transition, abuse, and sexuality.
The book is already soliciting rave reviews:
“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy in these poems. Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite—a potent, lifegiving remedy.” Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home
“The Marrow’s Telling is tactile, tangible, penetrating; a soft swirl of muted colors that sneaks in under your guard and leaves a lingering taste in your mouth, rather like woodsmoke or blood.” Raven Kaldera, author of Hermaphrodeities
“Eli’s work detonates inside of you, right to the edges where you balance.” Amber Hollibaugh, author of My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home
“The Marrow’s Telling trembles with CP and desire, rendered in language both passionate and precise. It is an important book, telling a story—in moments—that the world needs to hear.” Jim Ferris, author of The Hospital Poems and The Enjambed Body: A Step toward a Crippled Poetics.
And now you can have the book sent right to your home at a prepublication discount of 40% ($9 plus shipping). Order now. This offer will end once the book rolls hot off the press. Just follow this link: http://tinyurl.com/2xxp36 [2]
Finally here’s a little something to tease you:
“…and in its place we wake, grief
spun to smoke, to mist, to motes of sun,
my hands playing their unsteady beat,
tremor to skin, we wake
the warm hollow center… "
–from “Two Waters”
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/eli-cover-12_three.jpg
[2] http://tinyurl.com/2xxp36
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
America has no now. We're reluctant to acknowledge the present. It's too embarassing.
George Carlin
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
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[This cartoon is free. Use it in good health.]
The image is of a big-lipped creature yelling "Don't do crack. We don't want to see your ass!!"
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/dont-do-crack.jpg
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