By Alex Dueben
“The story opens with Rachel climbing out of a shallow grave.”
– Terry Moore
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 🙂
Get to know Georgia better over at SuicideGirls.com!
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…
[..]
By Alex Dueben
“I think it looks like no other comic out there.”
– Matt Fraction
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.
by Blogbot
Every week we ask the ladies and gentlemen of the social web to show us their finest ink in celebration of Tattoo Tuesday.
Our favorite submission from Twitter and Tumblr each wins a free 3 month membership to SuicideGirls.com.
Check this week’s winners below.
From Twitter:
@OneZero wins with a rather unique Zombie Skunk. Full marks for originality and execution (nom, nom!).
From Tumblr:
lazulibutterfly wins her “stay” and “true” wrist pieces. We can’t fault that mantra.
If you haven’t won this week, don’t forget that you can enter each week until you do, so good luck next Tuesday, and happy inking!
A few things to remember:
- You have to be 18 to qualify.
- The tattoo has to be yours…that means permanently etched on your body.
- On Twitter we search for your entries by looking up the hashtag #TattooTuesday, so make sure you include it in your tweet!
Check out the Tattoo Tuesday winners of weeks past!
