Self-Organizing Man

In April 2006, Ms. H. and I incorporated as an L.L.C. the publishing company Homofactus Press. In August 2006 we debuted with my book, Self-Organizing Men, recently called “mold-breaking” by Charlie Anders in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online. One year later we will publish The Marrow’s Telling by Eli Clare.

All the result of starting my blog in March 2005 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!"]