While in Kenya I was in was in quarantine, suffering from white guilt and a respiratory infection. For a time I thought I was going to have to fly home or go to a hospital. They were very dark days and I made dark drawings. But with the help of an Iranian [...]
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Kenya watercolor #9
One of the girls in a wheelchair is wearing a blindfold. She’s laughing that open mouthed I-can’t-get-enough-air-because-this-is-so-hilarious kind of laugh and groping around the room for someone who breathes too loud or can’t stop giggling. Blindman’s bluff, that’s what Father Yacob, the 20 something sunburnt American tells me he did [...]
My favorite word of the moment is phantasmagoric. Say it, I promise it’s fun to say out loud Phan-TAS-ma-goric. It has elements of fantastic, phantom, and orgy. It means a sequence of real or imaginary images like those in a dream. I would say that comics by nature are phantasmagoric.
On an [...]
This was one of my best days.
In the violence following the last election in Kenya hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. Some were never able to return home. Each family was given less than $200 by the government to resettle and build a new home. The sum is laughable, but this [...]
