Other People’s Bodies
Mike Dawson posts
The Year of Magical Thinking
CW: Death. I read a Goodreads review of The Year of Magical Thinking, written by someone who hated it. They were irritated at Joan Didion's habit of continually saying "I called so-and-so fabulous person", or "we had dinner with so-and-so illusionary of their field". Non-stop name-dropping. But, to me, that seemed like the po...
2022-01-11 19:41:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Pausing Billing in January
Hi there, I hope you're having a great holiday season. I wanted to post to let you know I'm pausing billing in January to give myself a minute to think about how I want to handle this Patreon moving forward.
Let me just say, first and foremost, *THANKYOU* for backing me here. It means so much to me. Part of why I want t...
2021-12-28 20:39:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Actual Now
Our Actual Now. I stepped back from making diary comics for a week or so to focus a bit on promoting The Fifth Quarter, and when I got back to it, I feel like it all came tumbling out. Here’s a lot of what’s been on my mind, the ever increasing efforts to ban books from school and libraries that are spreading across the c...
2021-11-23 16:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Local Flair
This guy flies three flags at a time, and really is rotating far-right designs in and out. He just can’t settle on that one perfect image, the one that really Says It All.
2021-11-13 13:03:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Scotch Egg Press, package 1 update
An update for those Patreon backers who are supporting me at the Scotch Egg Press subscription level. The first package will go into the mail on Monday. It includes a postcard, three zines, with five short stories and an essay, and one piece of original art drawn in pen and Coptic markers.
Putting together this first p...
2021-10-08 15:29:16 +0000 UTC View Post
