Joey Hedger

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That description is amazing!! Psyched to read it!

“You want a big house?” D.A.R.E. cop asks the classroom. “You want a cool car? What’s your favorite car.” Derek takes this one. Of course he does. Fucking Derek. “‘76 Corvette Stingray. Sky blue.”

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Very true!

This is awesome!! Hooked immediately

As a child, Daisy was convinced she could see her throat-dangle, a stretched-out wad of raspberry gum, bearing down against the rear of her tongue. She told her mother that it tickled, that she could feel it, but something felt in her body didn't make it real or make it something she could share. Her feeling of it didn't translate into words to transfer to another human body or mind. Her mom didn't acknowledge the repeated complaint and neither did she comment when the doctor who removed Daisy's tonsils and adenoids noted in the report the removal of a small benign growth on the uvula. There was some satisfaction over having been right, but it felt akin to excitedly telling a story to a group of friends the end of which is met with silence when the speaker realizes the friends are instead watching an argument occur nearby or a strange-looking bird out a window.

As a child, Daisy was convinced she could see her throat-dangle, a stretched-out wad of raspberry gum, bearing down against the rear of her tongue. She told her mother that it tickled, that she could feel it, but something felt in her body didn't make it real or make it something she could share. Her feeling of it didn't translate into words to transfer to another human body or mind Her mom didn't acknowledge the repeated complaint and neither did she comment when the doctor who removed Daisy's tonsils and adenoids noted in the report the removal of a small benign growth on the uvula. There was some satisfaction over having been right, but it felt akin to excitedly telling a story to a group of friends the end of which is met with silence when the speaker realizes the friends are instead watching an argument occur nearby or a strange-looking bird out a window.

Suzy Eynon’s BEING SEEN is now available! @suzyeynon.bsky.social

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Suzy Eynon is a writer from Arizona. She's the author of the prose chapbook Commuting (Ghost City Press summer series) and the novella Terrestrial (Malarkey Books). She lives in Seattle.

If you’ve ever felt invisible, if you’ve ever felt out of place, if you’ve ever daydreamed about Rocky from 3 Ninjas, this book is for you!

Will be getting Suzy Eynon’s BEING SEEN up for pre-order order tonight! @suzyeynon.bsky.social

Hey there. You look like you could use a new book. Might I make a recommendation?

The way my email seems to work is that when a journal is rejecting my work, it goes to the normal folder. When it’s being accepted, straight to junk.

Cover of the chapbook BEING SEEN by Suzy Eynon from Ethel Press. Cover image of an open eye as a flower on a green stem with a blue-purple background.

Cover reveal for my forthcoming chapbook Being Seen from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social! Sara makes each book by hand! ✨️

Being Seen is about obstructed vision/seeing the Dr (and not).

Love this!!

Suggestion in Google docs to change "Her job sends her to sad hotels in..." to "Her job sends to her hotels"

lol at google docs correctly suggesting that sad hotels is redundant

Stuffed calamari in the foreground. Baked ziti behind it.

Plated calamari and ziti.

Made stuffed calamari from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey for me and baked ziti for everyone else (including me). Made too much stuffing so while I figure out what to with it you should catch @jonfain.bsky.social’s Heavily Ever After

Considering making this my new author photo

Great blue heron looking suspiciously at the camera while wading in shallow water

DANGER! STAY OFF TRESTLE FOR YOUR SAFETY! NO TRESPASSING VIOLATORS SUBJECT TO ARREST

Train with white background

Look out world it's Big Tony!

Forgot spammers want you to click the links and for a sec thought they were going to be waiting for you outside lol

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I also enjoy how he says he doesn’t enjoy lettering but that’s the way he writes so it belongs in the strip as a reflection of him!

Christie: Well, you know, a lot of the very good ones used assistants. Watterson: Yeah, Pogo did. Schulz has a good comment on that: "It's like Arnold Palmer having someone to hit his chip shots." I spent five years trying to get this stupid job and now that I have it I'm not going to hire it out to somebody else. The whole pleasure for me is having the opportunity to do a comic strip for a living, and now that I've finally got that I'm not going to give it away. It also gives me complete creative control. Any time somebody else has their hand in the ink it's changing the product, andi enjoy the responsibility for this product. I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine. I don't know, if you don't have that kind of investment in it...I guess that's the difference between looking at it as an art and looking at it as a job. I'm not interested in setting up an assembly line to produce this thing more efficiently. There are certainly people who could letter the strip better than I do; I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me. If cartoonists would look at this more as an art than as a part time job or a get-rich-quick scheme, I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

Saw someone share an old Bill Watterson interview. He was talking about hiring an assistant, but in the context of AI, there’s some good stuff in there. “If cartoonists would look at this more as an art than as a part time job or a get-rich-quick scheme, I think comics overall would be better.”

The whole “they’ll come for you next” phrase bothers me so much. It should be enough that they came for anyone at all.

Interesting how sadness in art is viewed as manipulation while comfort or happiness aren’t

EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to rescind the landmark legal opinion that underpins virtually all of its regulations to curb climate change.

Yep! Segregation is the point. I went to a Christian high school (where i got a terrible education) that just so happened to be founded the same year as Brown v Board of Education. I’d be curious how many private and religious schools were created in response to desegregation.

Amazing.

Too hot. She hates the heat, unfortunately haha!

A dawg looking into camera with lower teeth sticking out in friendly snarl

Got that dawg

Deliver Thy Pigs by Joey Hedger — Malarkey Paperback. “A timely and addictive antidote for our times, witty and sensory. A jaunt through grief and revenge I will not forget.” —William Burtch, co-author of W.G. It’s been a year since defiant...

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Interview with Joy Williams. THE PARIS REVIEW = EDITORS Do you think of yourself as a writer interested in social class? WILLIAMS The thought of two upper-class ladies attacking a slaughterhouse enchanted me.

I’ve got a perfect novel for those who find the idea of two ladies attacking a slaughterhouse enchanting