night of the living chester

I am sorry I made you read a story about people being mean to a bug just to avoid being a poser about a t shirt

I think my coworkers might think I'm a strange hermit. I think I might be a strange hermit.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies.

Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.

I have the vague embarassing feeling he may have also gone to the same college as I did, over the same years as I did, and I may have not noticed this the entire time/forgotten this

there is one guy in a different department at work that I am maybe 75% sure I went to elementary school with. I should one day try to ascertain if this is indeed true

pj and his delightful cane in a not at all ominous photo :^)

Sock Puppet City is open for business at the Seaport Snowport in Boston! Huzzah!

We are at Booth 5, just a couple booths down from last year right on the corner!

M-Thurs, 3-8
Fri-Sat, 11-9
Sun, 11-8
Hours extend on 12/8

We are so grateful for all the support in getting here!

A wonderful alt-movie poster for 1979’s “Alien” by Laszlo Nagy.

Zero Mostel as Max Biyalistock

John Candy as Johnny LaRue

Murray Hill. Purple plaid on plaid, pocket square, normal tie.

John F. Pastel pink shirt with pastel pinstriped white jacket, pocket-flower.

People in the notes have tried to add Max Biyalistock and Johnny LaRue, whose style oddly resembles *each other* but not JF/MH. Crushed velvet, cravats, and ruffles on these guys; versus pastel pinstripes and plaids with statement glasses. Moustache, even.

Murray Hill with fat cigar and big ol glasses

John F on Fun To Steal cover

Murray Hill again. Plaid suit, tinted glasses, big honking gold watch, etc

John F in checked suit for the What's In My Bag videos

Ok, more accurately I was speculating about the existence of a more general now-vanished type of guy that both might be playing off. Like those orchids evolved to mimic now-extinct wasps...

why did my tumblr post comparing John F to Murray Hill breach containment sometime in the past 24 hours.

Right!

“I Thought I Heard Your Voice Just Then” is a new eight-page comic drawn by @jlaguff.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or purchase it on a pay-what-you-want basis on Itch.io (which I recommend, Bluesky compression being what it is):

hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard

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John Romita Sr., 1972

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living dangerously (knitting two socks in parallel from either end protruding from the same ball of yarn

congrats to the only guy to have made me feel anything positive towards the political process in the last... uh... oh god have things been this dire since before I myself was of voting age

Gauge swatch with the first two cables I've ever knit!

I plan to use the leftover Christmas yarn to try a pair of mittens at some point... but my next goal is an actually viable cable sock.

A year and a half later, I finally finish and block pairs four and five...

what do you mean the Paris catacombs are slightly *younger* than the United States. Paris is so old and that does not seem like an industrial-era solution at All

should I become a FOIA Guy

Jack o lantern I carved sitting on dark porch beside a floral cut metal lantern. The pumpkin is cheerful, with moon eyes, triangle nose, and two peg teeth.

ok I did not get this joke at All when you said it out loud

a black plate with several cupcakes entirely dipped in chocolate jimmies, with two candy eyeballs each. they look like little frightened hair balls

help look at these fucking cupcakes I made

Printout on a shrink wrapped pallet of a sweaty bald man on his knees praying. It says DO NOT STACK ON THIS PALLET!

that’s right beg you miserable worm

ignore the lipstick on my teeth in the second photo but i finally tried on my halloween costume (black widow pider-vampire) and i’m so excited about it

im so underground im spitting out dirt! ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi ptooi