Brian Nicholson

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Apparently this is big on Tiktok? Nice cover design. Subject matter of cannibalism, rape, trafficking, animal cruelty, etc means workmanlike prose is meant to feel brutal but it also just feels sorta simple to me? Don't think I would read the author's other books. Prefer Takuya Okada's manga Animan

Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· 7d

Really enjoyed NIGHT SHIFT from Scotland's Jamie Kinroy. He's such a good storyteller, exploring physical spaces and the different moods they evoke to balance shifting tones, so that a reader doesn't know what kind of story is being told. It ends up being pretty wholesome! jamiekinroy.com

A large man in a clean jacket is about to enter into a graffiti-laden bar

A man in a suit jacket walks through a bar, earning the attention of working class men sipping pints of lager

In a four-panel comics sequence, a large man is shown the bedroom of an eight-year-old wearing a cape, who has a poster of a cowboy on his wall. His and our attention is then directed specifically to a papier-mache airplane, dangling from the ceiling by a string.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· 8d

Working in a nonfiction historical context, this is less of a churning ocean of prose than Miss MacIntosh, My Darling but still far-out and poetic enough a lot of it reads like "how could she know that just from research?" Recommended to historians looking for getting-weird-with-it inspo.

Angel In The Forest by Marguerite Young (author of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, one of those "wow that's a really long modernist novel" books, maybe the paramount one by a woman wading into that realm of dick-measuring contest, unless you're a Ducks, Newburyport person) from Dalkey Archive. It's about a 19th century utopian community founded in America by an apocalyptic religious movement and inherited by a British labor movement rationalist.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· 16d

Just saw that Bronwyn Carlton is gonna be a guest of the NY Comics Symposium and remembered this convo

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· 20d

If you are the sort of person who is playing the expanded reissue of Ween's country album this weekend you'll find a lot to relate to (bong rips, quitting jobs, friendships with drug dealers) in this good-ass underground comic book

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Jul 15

How is this possible? How can my phone analyze its own storage and give the vast majority of its own usage as unaccounted for? (I have very few apps on my phone btw)

My phone telling me it's 95% full but also saying the biggest use of its internal hard drive is being used by images, which take up 1 GB.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Jun 30

Chris Day sent me his new books, Turn is particularly beautiful. The sweetest dude, whose work occupies a serial killer's shed/Jim Thompson/psych-doom metal headspace. Like being on mushrooms and finding dad's porn mags in a dank basement www.cchhrriissddaayy.com

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Jun 23

Alan Moore remains a pretty great writer; his prose voice here very comfortable with sly dry comedy and, at the climax, rendering grotesque violence. Contains era-appropriate recommendations for both Gormenghast and Peter Sellers comedies.

I Hear A New World by Alan Moore, the second in a series of fantasy novels, preceded by The Great When

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Jun 13

Saw Glenn Branca's Hallucination City for 100 guitars performed at Lincoln Center last night, with Reg Bloor conducting. Greg Fox played drums. Please interpret distortions and imperfections in the camera phone photo as registering the overall volume. (I wore earplugs.)

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Jun 11

Pretty happy to have found this at a local used book store today

CD copy of World Standard's Country Gazette, produced by Haruomi Hosono. Album art shows a yellow cab driving down a road in front of a hilly landscape with a house in the background.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Jun 1

Issue 35, page 22

Comics page where a character whose design is silhouette interrupts two people making out (?) and makes a crying man drink poison (?)

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· May 6

(Lindsey Buckingham voice) I don't want to know who this guy in the ad is I think all celebrities should prob'ly die Yeah ok whatever getting money I'm just tryna buy some fuckin limes Finally baby I'm at the store now You got me shoppin for some din-din There's this guy I didn't know

Stack of boxes of Culture Pop Soda with a promotional image of Noah Kahan, who is a white guy with a beard, holding a can

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· May 1

Mimi Pond bit that made me laugh. Wild take but I can see it

Then he brings out the bong. This is another social ritual of my generation that makes me queasy. It's too much like oral sex. (From THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS WRONG)

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Apr 19

Welcome To Shit Island

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Mar 27

I could expand on this thought and make it into a real essay but maybe it's obvious and widely discussed already or else does not withstand scrutiny

GRAND THESIS OF MILLENNIAL CRINGE

So much of the defining/popular narrative for millennials - in TV, I'm talking The Office and The Good Place, with comics I'm thinking Scott Pilgrim - is about POV charactere we are conditioned to like or find appealing but are in some ways insufferable, "the villains." The 30 Rock episode where Liz Lemon realizes she was a bully in high school. Social media discourse reminds us that Humbert Humbert is the bad guy in Lolita and that many older generations of readers missed the point. Attachment to Harry Potter is because it's a kids book with an umambiguous hero - that JK Rowling is an evil person has led many to want to "separate the art from the artist," perhaps for the first time.

Anyway this probably all comes down to 9/11 shattering a US-centric worldview and Bush's geopolitical actions afterwards being unambiguously evil in ways we as Americans were nonetheless implicated in.

Zoomer shit is defined by Trump as abusive father rendering them all traumatized victims probably

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Mar 22

Sam Kieth working with his cousin Dave Feiss, creator of the Cartoon Network series Cow And Chicken, on a page that ran at the end of issue 21 of The Maxx

Fred Flower and Uncle Italian Moose. "How can I get you to trust in the lord, you foreign immigrant atheist moose?!" says Fred Flower. "I luva-a you too, Fred Flower." things Uncle Italian Moose

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Mar 21

New Anadol/Marie Klock album will likely be quite good and the album art is the sort that brings me that much closer to a physical purchase. Available to preview and order at anadol.bandcamp.com

Manivelles by Anadol & Marie Klock album art features a painting in a sort of retablo folk art style of "off" perspective where a large woman with banjo stands in front of a bed smoking a cigarette. A blonde woman lays in the bed, under sheets, a cat at her feet. A window is open, the moon is visible, a breeze blows the translucent curtain. The walls of the room are pink and striped, suggesting curtains. The floor is light blue, the bed casts a shadow of darker blue. The moon could be the lightsource, though the interior is daylight-bright.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Mar 21

Bought this drink during the False Spring of two weeks ago, laughing about how it's Yassified Nesquik but maybe it's intended as a mixer with rum?, and also I do actually like it

A carafe of Califia Farms Key Lime Colada "coconut and key lime drink" a dairy-free beverage which is mostly water, coconut cream, and cane sugar

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Mar 20

Ariel Posh show at Blah Blah Gallery (on Christian Street in South Philly) is cool if you are a fan of "the female figure" if you want to be horny about it or "shapes" if you want to be coy

Fairly large blue painting of two gals in a a kayak, their limbs and joints distended into angles and curves, flesh rich with gradients against a field of darkness splashing. Priced at 2 grand

Red painting of a man and woman on a bed lounging with Baja Blasts after the bar has closed. Legs are like quotation marks for an unspoken utterance. Priced at 2 grand

Red line drawing on white paper of a woman with curly hair, legs folded to ensconce one another and obscure the torso as one arm displays the armpit the opposite hand caresses. Sold! for $300

Blue line drawing on white paper of a woman bent over, with her right leg arched high to place her foot against her shoulder, as she bends over to shave her left thigh. Sold! For $300

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Mar 9

Pretty great record delivery for the first day of Spring. Open window weather got a nice cross-breeze going jams

Norma Tanega - I Don't Think It Will Hurt If You Smile LP reissue, Haruomi Hosono Tropical Dandy reissue, CD copy of Nina Maia's Inteira

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Mar 5

Dash Shaw's got a new comic newspaper thing out and just one idea in a preview image is such a great plot point - a woman sees a video of her man cheating on his phone but thinks it might be AI, possibly to convince herself he didn't really cheat

Panel from Dash Shaw's Special Memory, a newsprint broadsheet thing currently available from Copacetic Comics and Toybox Coffin I imagine other places will have soon but then will quickly become unavailable. It's a short story and deleted scenes/process material for his upcoming book from New York Review Comics, Like Swimmers, which will be in full color

A chicken operating a human man from the inside

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 27

The way this cat is the most affectionate creature

Cat with two crossed eyes is perched up on my legs, sphinxlike, while I lay on my side on my bed

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 25

When I say we should do a noise protest at the ICE detainment center this is what I mean

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 17

Cover for the forthcoming volume 3, and the drawing they chose a detail of to enlarge, flip, color, and add some typeset text to, with every step diminishing its power

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 15

Really loved @cccilla.bsky.social's That Away Comix (available via @dominocomics.bsky.social): Beautiful silkscreened covers, guts that apply the weedhead record collector mentality many are familiar with to a collective consciousness of appropriated comic characters (whose cameos I won't spoil)

Comic book cover featuring light blue and gold highlights, along with a black line, silkscreen printed onto purple cardstock. Design evokes both seventies psychedelic poster design and "classic" cartooning, underground comix and Fort Thunder approaches

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 13

Yeah it's called Mystic Hands of Doctor Strange, it's on mycomicshop, cover looks like this

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 8

The rabbit did nothing wrong. It doesn't know what Christmas is

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 5

Me And My Cat

Henri Rousseau's painting "The Sleeping Gypsy," on display at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, in a show that closes on February 22nd. I really loved this one.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 5

Ed Emberley woodcut print on display at the Philadelphia Free Library main branch

Paul Bunyan, 1962. There is a children's book Emberley had published in 1963 on the subject but it is much smaller.

Brian Nicholson@briannicholson· Feb 1

Read Attila Veres' first English-language collection THE BLACK MAYBE a month ago and loved its unearthly & upsetting stories. His second is shipping from the publisher now; I'm halfway through and would recommend to fans of horror, weirdness, & the idea of the act of translation more than language