Author Archives: Joan

I skipped this strip in the queue for a while, because it seemed appropriate to use this day to remember radio host, journalist, musician, and old friend Andrea Lewis, who died with shocking suddenness this past November. I’d already been … Continue reading →

The Gallery is back up–small blooper on my web guy’s part, but he’s been busy putting together the gigantic strip archives I finally got to him, which would make anyone tired. Right? Coming soon! No, really…soon!

Hey, sorry for the posting delay, I overslept, the dog ate it, I meant to call, the bus was late…it was the holidays. Happy New Year. Here’s to 2010.

Who doesn’t give advice to one’s exes? It’s so right, yet so wrong.

Just in time for Black Friday! I’d never heard of Buy Nothing Day ‘til now, reading an old punk-anarchist friend’s online argument that it’s “ill-conceived, privileged, and useless.” He’s got a point – and I’d add “undersold”, no pun intended, … Continue reading →

Most of the NYC subway’s remaining elevated lines are along the Brooklyn/Queens waterfront and do have beautiful views, sometimes on the platforms themselves, as with the Marcy Avenue stop pictured in both “Ideal-O-Logue” and this article, though I was insane … Continue reading →

I’ll have two strips in the Color of Comics exhibit at this weekend’s Miami Book Fair, which seems to have taken rapidly to comics and graphic novels. Hear hear. Does the Color of Comics Matter?Friday, November 13, 6:30 p.m., Centre … Continue reading →

In an era of bank predation so rampant and unregulated that Congresspeople actually have to rouse themselves to propose legislation requiring banks to warn against overdrafts, isn’t it time for a little reverse-engineering? I have an imaginary computer programmer all … Continue reading →