By Alex Dueben

For many years Terry Moore has been one of the most significant and important cartoonists in America. His long running series Strangers in Paradise was one of the major comics of the 1990s and the black and white series won many awards including an Eisner Award, a Reuben Award for Best Comic Book from the National Cartoonists Society, and a GLAAD Media Award. What struck most of us reading the comic at the time, and even today, is how the book stands out not just among comics but among all media for its treatment of sexuality as the complex, often uncertain and fraught thing it is as his characters struggle with the lines between friendship and romantic love, attraction and affection.

Moore has written some comics for DC and Marvel including Birds of Prey and Runaways, but his focus continues to be his black and white comics which he publishes through his own Abstract Comics. Since Strangers in Paradise ended, Moore produced the science fiction adventure series Echo which has just been collected in a complete volume. His new book, which has just started being released, is Rachel Rising. It opens with a lengthy, creepy sequence where the titular character climbs out of her own grave. This fall Moore also begins to serialize a book How To Draw. A regular at many comic conventions this year, we conducted this interview over e-mail as Moore bounced between many states.

Read our exclusive interview with Terry Moore on SuicideGirls.com.

Georgia Suicide in Pirate’s Cove

• INTO: Don’t you just love it when you go to the bathroom and come back with your food waiting for you?”
• NOT INTO: Negativity, hate, animal suffering or killing for sport, being wasteful, and judgmental, controlling, and close-minded people.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Music, sushi, pussydoodles, The Patriots, sunsets and sunrises, my truck, boats, water, the earth, the Celtics, sunflowers, beer, wine, dancing and animals.
• MAKES ME SAD: Poverty and greed.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My kitties, family, shades, the sun, and my iPod.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Taking pictures, reading, playing with my kitties, making a difference, on my bicycle 🙂

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by Blogbot

We asked our Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter friends if they could ride a bike. Over 9,500 responses later, and the results are in…

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by SG’s Team Agony feat. Rin

Let us answer life’s questions – because great advice is even better when it comes from SuicideGirls.

Q: My girlfriend just broke up with me recently after four years of dating and almost a year of being engaged. I never thought this would happen but she just up and left for reasons she would never tell me.

With all that behind me, my real question is what to do now? I have tried going out to meet people but with no luck. I have tried online sites but they seem just as bad as going out for meeting new people. I do have a few friends around but just find myself so lonely all the time. I work from home which doesn’t really help. It’s a good job working on computers and I make great money, but it doesn’t help me meet people at all. I just don’t know what to do with myself and find myself fighting loneliness all the time.

A: Regrouping after the breakup of a long-term relationship can be very difficult. The first thing to address is your loneliness. You’ve mentioned you work from home and make a good income. If you don’t already have one, you should purchase a laptop and take as much of your work outside the house as possible. Even if it’s just for an hour or two a day, hanging out in a coffee shop and working will give you a nice dose of people. Choose a pleasant coffee shop, even if it’s out of your way. Maybe it’s in the neighborhood you want to live in, or maybe it just has a great atmosphere.

When you’re lonely, it’s important to reach out to your friends. They care about you and want to see you happy –– try to make two or three friend outings every week. Good friends are the backbone of getting through a breakup.

Because you work at home and are in a low place right now, you should consider adding some physical activity to your weekly routine. Exercise releases all sorts of beneficial chemicals in our brains, like serotonin and endorphins. Cultivating a feeling of wellbeing will definitely help with your loneliness and put you in a good place for when you do meet someone new. Joining a gym would be the easiest step, but you could also try yoga, team sports, or just go running in your own neighborhood. Lifting weights at home would also do the trick, though it doesn’t have the added potential social benefits.

Since you just got out of a relationship, give yourself some time to recuperate before you stress about meeting someone new. Make new goals — find things you can achieve on your own. Spend time figuring out what makes you happy, then do it! In a long-term relationship we can lose ourselves and it can be really empowering, when single, to find out what we want to do and just do it without worrying about the repercussions.

Maybe she was against you getting tattoos; maybe she didn’t like it when you went out with your friends and came home late; maybe she hated it when you played your favorite album on repeat for three hours straight. Now is your time to do whatever the fuck you want without needing the approval of another person. Discover the good parts of being single. It sounds contradictory, but it’s true! Sometimes being single is fun.

Hope those suggestions are helpful to you!

Rin

Got Problems? Let SuicideGirls’ team of Agony Aunts provide solutions. Email questions to: gotproblems@suicidegirls.com

By Alex Dueben

Less than a decade ago, Matt Fraction was a young comics creator writing graphic novels like Mantooth and The Last of Independents. Today he’s an Eisner Award winning creator and one of Marvel’s top talents, writing Invincible Iron Man and Thor in addition to this year’s big crossover event miniseries Fear Itself.

This year sees the return of one of his most well known and beloved creations. Casanova is more of a cult hit than anything, but it’s an intense and devoted cult that has followed the book over its two miniseries. The third miniseries, Casanova: Avaritia, features art from award-winning creator Gabriel Ba (The Umbrella Academy and Daytripper), who drew the first miniseries (and whose twin brother drew the second one). We spoke with Fraction by phone in advance of the first issue’s release on September 7.

Read our exclusive interview with Matt Fraction on SuicideGirls.com.

Tarion Suicide in The Message

• INTO: Doing things I shouldn’t be doing.
• NOT INTO: Trendy stuff.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Trent Reznor, Pink Fluffy Killer Bunnies.
• MAKES ME SAD: Shaved Pink (unfluffy) KIller Bunnies.
• HOBBIES: World Domination.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My New Rocks, spikes, Trent Reznor, music.
• VICES: Lollipops and merry-go-rounds.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Contemplating what I’ll do first when the world bows before me…Oh and what’s for supper.

Get to know Tarion better over at SuicideGirls.com!

Anonymous Suicide in The Bunk

• INTO: Freedom of information, non-violent civil disobedience for the betterment of society, sailing the high seas, topiary and all manner of similarly artistic shrubbery.
• NOT INTO: Corrupt governments, corporate greed, injustice, the suppression of rights, violence.
• MAKES ME HAPPY: Kittens and rainbows.
• MAKES ME SAD: Uniformed opinions, unintelligent actions based on uniformed opinions, human and animal cruelty, apathy.
• HOBBIES: Studying topiary, driving luxury cars, and cruising on the Louise Boat.
• 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: A laptop, a high speed internet connection, life, liberty, and the pursuit of lulz.
• VICES: Having too much fun.
• I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Poking around your hard drive.