tym godek

I’m traveling today - and all this week - 30 days of comics will be spotty.
When I post them just pretend you’re reading on the day I drew it.

I do like some Shrigley in the way I can also appreciate, like, some middling gag strip or something. (Maybe a little more than that, but hit-and-miss)

Yeah, I get that. This was also my introduction to Shrigley way back when. It’s the same kind of “naive” but mostly avoids the cloyingness he can exhibit. I like the way it almost makes sense but doesn’t.

The LP sleeve for Joyful Noise’s re-release of Deerhoof’s Friend Opportunity. Letter or letter-like shapes seemingly hastily scrawled across hand drawn lines, white and various colors on a black background. One line includes what looks like the word “FRIEND” except mirrored. Many of the other shapes seem to almost spell “OPPORTUNITY” - but scrambled and scattered and not quite. Artwork by David Shrigley.

Friend Opportunity is so good!

I love that line!

Is Martian Manhunter along those lines, then? I do have a weakness for pre-Vertigo Vertigo.

For the uninitiated: madinkbeard.com/30-days-of-c...

30-days-of-comics is coming up. Do I know what I’m going to draw? No, that’s not how this works (for me). But look for that coming in November.
You should do it too, it’s more fun when more people do it. We all need fun.

Disappointed this didn’t work.

You can occasionally find copies of ‘Come, Come…’ on the secondary market going for hundreds of dollars, but to my knowledge I have never been a tym godek comic offered in those channels at *any* price. Rare media indeed! 😂

Close up of a comics page, features a small drawing of the 2023 Mountain Goats album, Jenny from Thebes

I’ll even throw in a copy of the older comic, of which this is a continuation/extrapolation, think something similar to the relationship between All Hail West Texas and…

Excerpt from said comic, featuring @themountaingoats.bsky.social
(Sort of)

John Darnielle, I will trade you one (1) copy of my latest self released comic, Today is never Right Now, for one (1) copy of your self-released bootleg, Come Come to the Sunset Tree.

Fair trade, in rare physical media.

Yep.

And if anyone has a copy of Come, Come to the Sunset Tree that they’re looking to upload for cheap, I’m open. 🤣

Years after @nvonflue.bsky.social’s recommendation, years after checking the cd out from the library and dubbing it on cassette, after years of deeply internalizing the record, I’ve now legally purchased a copy of the Mountain Goats’ the Sunset Tree, and thus - at long last - closed the open circle.

You actually had a hand in shaping what this became, whether you know it or not.

Should have done a pull quote 🤣

Yeah! Promotion!

It’s been known to tip the scales to purchase for me many times.

Domino books has always been fantastic! One of the undersung features of his site is the text that Austin attaches to every listing. More than marketing copy, it’s sometimes contextualization and oftentimes personal observations on the work. Love seeing it.

Link: dominobooks.org/todayneverri...

Did I tell you I have a new book out? Probably not, I am bad at promotion, but happy to have my latest printed comic available now at @dominocomics.bsky.social web shop.

Whoops…107

Cleaned up the stacks and got everything on shelves. Discovered some more I haven’t read. 104 so far…

And if I’m wrong and it was created as such - by an artist with intent - then my hat is off to the artist.

I would like to make images this readable and yet confused, or I would like this image to have been made with the purpose of being confusing.

(And it’s likely the image does not adequately satisfy any intent behind the prompt in this case anyway. Again, it’s hard to judge sans context)

If it truly is ai - like I suspect - then there was never any actual “intent” behind the generation of the image. (While I do believe there may be an “art” to prompting ai generation, I do not believe that the prompt is the “Art.”)

But I imagine what I like about it runs counter to the original intent. (Tho it’s tough to judge that without more context)