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(Letter) Dear Amanda

April 4, 2018 Romey Petite
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Belated letter to a dear friend from college...

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The Other Reader

March 21, 2018 Romey Petite
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Some thoughts had while listening to Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...

 

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Spiderella: The Girl Who Spoke with Spiders will debut at SPX 2017!

September 12, 2017 Romey Petite

A limited print run of just twenty-five copies of Spiderella: The Girl Who Spoke with Spiders will be debuting at #SPX2017 in Bethesda, Maryland!

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Tags Spiderella, SPX, 2017, spx2017, Laurel Holden
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SPX 2017

April 20, 2017 Romey Petite

Laurel Holden and I are happy to announce that we will be attending SPX (9/16-17th) in Bethesda this year as exhibitors!

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Tags My Biblical Daydreams #2, Laurel Holden, Spiderella
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George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo is the exactly the right book for this moment in history.

March 9, 2017 Romey Petite

Slate’s Laura Miller published an article praising the prose of George Saunders' previous work, but ultimately deciding his first foray into the novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, is “fundamentally the wrong book for this moment in history.”

The problem with such a statement, to accuse an artist’s work of failing to be timely, is that it begs the following question:

If not now, then when?

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Notes on Two Tales

December 23, 2016 Romey Petite

If you missed it, some short fiction of mine was included in Issue No. 12 Fall 2016 of 3Elements Review ("Spoor") and another story was self-published here. If you knew about both of these already and are interested in some notes on these stories, I've included some below. If you're sick of hearing me talk about prose and are wondering when I'm going to get back to comics, I'll try to make it up to you in 2017...  

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Tags The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Adam Whittier, The Fairy Tale Review, Spiderella, The House Call, Snake Rapunzel, Spoor, 3Elements Review, E. B. White, Templeton, Garth Williams, Fairy Tales, Anya Groner, Kishi Bashi, Anagrams, Charlotte's Web, Fractured Fairy Tales, Snow White, Edward Gorey, Laurel Holden, Tea
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2016 in Review

December 22, 2016 Romey Petite
 Got a haircut in part to blend in when moving from the City of Dreams to Slumberton. It worked. I have a local job now and nobody gives me funny looks or asks me if I'm a musician. 

Got a haircut in part to blend in when moving from the City of Dreams to Slumberton. It worked. I have a local job now and nobody gives me funny looks or asks me if I'm a musician. 

Comics Critic Rob Clough has written a most kind, nuanced, and attentive review of My Biblical Daydreams #2 on his blog High-Low including thoughts on the term "Auteur Cartoonist." This descriptor is briefly discussed in one of the essays inside the issue and further detailed in the previous note here on this blog...

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Tags Rob Clough, Auteur Comics, Auteur Cartooning, The Extraordinary, My Biblical Daydreams #2, My Biblical Daydreams #1, 2016, Loyola University of New Orleans, SPX, gumroad, The Polar Pals, French, Language, English
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First Blog Post: On “Auteur Cartooning”

August 31, 2016 Romey Petite

Day-and-night, I ask myself, "What kind of story is this? A job for prose or pictures?" 

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Tags Auteur Comics, Writing, Drawing, Houdini, The Center for Cartoon Studies, John Updike, Jim Woodring, Jorge Luis Borges, Lydia Davis, Jason Lutes, Steve Bissette, Don Quixote, Cervantes, Peanuts, Spiderella, Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*, Art Spiegelman, Houdini the Handcuff King, My Biblical Daydreams #2, Loyola University of New Orleans, The New Yorker
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