Bill Mauldin: a life up front

Todd DiPastino

©2008

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

 

 

"This book celebrates the life of Bill Mauldin, who contributed mightily to a fulfillment of one of the most difficult chores in human relationships- helping us to understand ourselves, and doing it in perhaps the most difficult of all media with humor and satire."

Walter Cronkite, from the dust jacket

 

The Inner Ear

I think. There! For I am.
Morty the Dog, by Steve Willis
http://www.mortythedog.com/

Metaphor Life

I had a metaphor
For life is like a basketball
Or life is like a stock portfolio
Life is like 2.5 APR financing
Or quarterly profits
Life is not like a falling autumn leaf
Not a shooting star
Life is a descent into the maelstrom
A walk on the moon
A poetry reading
Like a slamming door
Broken window
Slip on the ice
Life is not like Mt. St. Helens
Life is more like a ghost, a donut
Like a slashed tire, a watermelon, a piano
Life is like an essay test, a dram,
An ounce of pleasure in a sea of pain
Life is feedback hogwash smoke well-done
Life is missing, fetid, symbolic
Life is not whirling, encoded, beige
Wet, laconic, serene
Not fantastic, dubious, illustrated
Life is like death, October, the Fourth of July
Life is not like willow, trout or eyeball
For what is life?

Mike Hill

MYSTERY COMIC STOLEN

  Police were called to Pittsburgh Comics, a retail comics shop in Peters Township, Pennsylvania, where three people were arrested, according to the  August 21, 2013 edition of  Upper St. Clair, Penna., "The Almanac". In a vehicle occupied by two of the suspects were found $1200 in dietary supplements, books, and, in a  woman's purse, a "comic." The article did not elaborate on the type of comic found, or its street value.
www.thealmanac.net

I don't want to consume any more

I don't want to consume any more gasoline
Toothpicks, peanut butter, coupons or zebras
I want to produce cement, rivets, intellectual concrete, skyscrapers of metaphor
To chisel slag from brains
Pound ideology to gravel

Michael R. Hill

The Inner Ear

"Art is the struggle to understand."
Terri Guillemets

Fifteen Heart Attacks, online jam!

 

"Fifteen Heart Attacks" ongoing comic by Steve Willis and friends

 

http://www.mortythedog.com/p/fifteen-heart-attacks.html

Dreamgirl

The Inner Ear

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Phone Photo #2676

Steve Willis

Artist Interview: Thomas Rehm, Curator of Obscuro Bezango!

http://futuretenant.tumblr.com/post/57881281232/artist-interview-thomas-rehm-curator-of-obscuro

OBSCURO BEZANGO! EXHIBITION OPENING



 

Crowd

The Machine to Take Over the World

 

Bruce Chrislip, Wayno, Steve Willis, The Curator, Mike Hill