I’ve been going through more of my stuff, trying to get rid of most of it. Books and CDs go on Amazon, zines go to the Barnard Zine Library, and I have a few more things for ebay today. These auctions last 7 days.

I want to make a preemptive apology to anyone who gave me anything that I’m getting rid of, in case they notice it’s on the block. It’s not that I don’t like it; I just can’t keep everything.

A collection of Bollywood music DVDs:

A Mexican candelabra:

A Bangladeshi tapestry:

And the scale is relisted because the person who won it earlier disappeared, along with their ebay account:

Here’s one more ebay auction for today, a collection of rabbit heads, a vengeful angry “Bunny Gang.” The leader is Bunnista, of course.

I made these one afternoon when my brother and I were playing with Sculpey. It was a lot of fun!! I’m selling them all as one group.

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”

– Frederick Douglass, 1852

After the obit panel I moderated at the AAEC convention, I guess I have obit cartoons on my mind. Anyway, I could not help myself — as soon as I thought of this I had to draw it. And isn’t it swell how the whole country is setting off fireworks tonight in celebration of him being reunited with his Lord?

News: Minimum Security is not syndicated in print at United Media (I hope that will happen in the not-terribly-distant future), but one newspaper contacted them anyway, and now I have my first daily paper! They started running the strip on 7/1.

For print, I have to draw four weeks ahead. To catch up, I drew 10 last week, and for the next two weeks I’ll draw 10 each week, for 30 strips in three weeks. Right now I’ve drawn them through 8/1. I have to be an extra week ahead before my trip to San Diego (for the Comic-Con) in two weeks. I haven’t drawn so much all at once since I worked on the graphic novel.