Tuesday, December 31, 2013

The Inner Ear

"It is no more to be required that wit should always be blazing than that the sun should always stand at noon."
-Doctor Johnson

Monday, December 30, 2013


New Caribbean Poetry
Kei Miller, Ed.
Carcanet Press Limited
Manchester, Eng.
2007



Sunday, December 29, 2013

Opera House, Sydney, Australia; charcoal                                                  M. Hill 2002


Hot Stories


Saturday, December 28, 2013

Coffee Jingles Are Fine Art

Magazine and television poster-mind of modern

Mass dissemination brainwash, progressive robot circuits,

Selling self esteem by ounce with ladles full of terror,

Linked with systematic governmental mob-controllers:

Who are you, mass media mind, who makes me think as you?

Thinking of your toothpaste when I search for real voodoo.

Devil-dealer, pimp-for-life, you breeder of delusion,

You try to suck me dry and rain on me confusion.

Flat robotic non-political men make good workers,

And help the few who steal the wealth and dole it out among us.

That which will not be controlled is profitless, threatening

To a way of life that deals in money and in death.

I don't need a prez or pope to show me how to be free,

I just need to figure out how I will eat tomorrow.

-Michael R. Hill

Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Inner Ear

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
-G.B. Shaw

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

The Inner Ear

Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,- you're straightway dangerous
And handled with a chain.
-Dickinson

Monday, December 23, 2013

The Inner Ear

The story that has to be told
Is the writer's God, who calls
Out of sleep, inaudibly: "Write."
-Ted Hughs

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Saturday, December 21, 2013

The Inner Ear

"Never was I able to contrive a form; any consciously planned form was repellant to me."
-Kandinsky

Friday, December 20, 2013

Modernman

panel from Modernman "Y2K Bugged"                                                        M. Hill 1999

Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Inner Ear

Perhaps one day, one day,
my mouth will burst asunder
to utter but two words for simple souls
which, as they grow, will sprout ripe stars
which even now I am searching for.
-Trefossa (H.F. DeZiel)
 

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

The Inner Ear

"Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
-Picasso

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Modernman

panel from "Palace of the Muses"                              M. Hill 1988

Friday, December 13, 2013

The Inner Ear

"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."
-Akira Kurosawa
http://www.goodreads.com

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work

"... 'Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work' " paste-up—now considered standard instructional fare in one form or another in just about all contemporary post-secondary comics art programs in the States—created by (Larry) Hama from Wally Wood’s old reminder sheets."
http://thecomixverse.com/2012/08/15/leaving-proof-141-looking-back-on-larry-hamas-original-g-i-joe-run/

Monday, December 9, 2013

The Inner Ear

"The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art."
Federico García Lorca
http://www.goodreads.com

Sunday, December 8, 2013

WIP4

MODERNMAN 8 (detail)                                                                          Mike Hill 2013

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Inner Ear

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
-Zola

http://www.goodreads.com

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

 
The Mission of Art
Alex Grey
1998
Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Boston 
 
 
"Emerson understood the artist's need to withdraw from the public in order to gather creative steam: 'Happy are the artists who look only into their work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who create from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not the necessity of sale- who create always for the unknown friend.' "

Thursday, November 28, 2013

 
 Violins and Shovels
The WPA Arts Projects
Milton Meltzer
1976
Delacorte Press
New York
 
 







Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Modernman

Modernman, "Future" (detail); Mike Hill 2004
from Maximum Traffic's White Bufallo Gazette

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Modernman

"Modernman, 15 Minutes of Fame" (detail) by M. Hill 2008
originally published in Delaine's Not My Small Diary

Monday, November 25, 2013

Friday, November 22, 2013

The Inner Ear

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Thoughts emerge as demons
I have myself in my clutches


-M. Hill



 
 

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Brussels, Belgium                                           M. Hill 2012

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Zero

Let's start from zero

Forget the ruin of yesterday

See trees glow in the morning sun




-M. Hill

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Blue Sun                                                            Alexander Calder


Saturday, November 9, 2013

 
Life Among the Surrealists
A Memoir by Matthew Josephson
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
New York, 1962
 

"They change their sky but not their mind who run across the sea."
-Horace, Epistles

Friday, November 8, 2013

New Grange, Ireland                                               M. Hill 2008

Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Inner Ear

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
-Fran Lebowitz

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Cover, Novyi LEF                   Alexander Rodchenko, 1927


Monday, November 4, 2013

Man Following the Setting Sun (detail)                                                          V. Mayakovsky, 1930
 

Sunday, November 3, 2013

The Inner Ear

"An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it."
-Paul Valéry