I am exhausted by all of the damn apps upon which I have to have some presence. I have my Facebook page, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr (which feeds into my otherwise empty Twitter account), Instagram and now this.
Why do I do it all? I have time on my hands and it allows me to keep up with the people I love.
So far, it’s worth it.
Right now I can’t even count (let alone know passwords) how many social media sites I am on. Most have no original content. Why? Because it is terrifying and panic attack inducing for me to put myself out in the ether for the world to see. But I’m working on it — I feel more bravery is on the way. In the meantime thank you for your patience.
My husband read this and quietly said, “It’s good to know Victor exists. I am not the only one.”
I don’t even know where to start with this, so I’m skipping right to: “OMG, YOU GUYS, I HAVE FOUND HEAVEN AND IT’S ONLY SLIGHTLY MORE CORPSEY THAN YOU WOULD EXPECT.”
Long story short, this weekend we went to a tiny town near us to go to resale stores because we’re strange people who like weird, used things. As you might know, I have a particular penchant for badly done, super-old taxidermy that makes me laugh and makes people who have to visit my house very uncomfortable. By late afternoon we came across a large odd store filled with so much weird, half-price shit that it was like coming home. In fact, I fell so in love with one section of the store that the guy in charge told me I could come and bring my laptop, get into bed and write there after they were closed if I needed…
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The immensely talented Renée Latulippe has created a video featuring her interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” that incorporates the drawings in my comics adpatation of the poem. I was really impressed with the results, and it made me wish all my poetry comics could be given a similar treatment.
Click on the link below to view other “poetry videos” on Renée’s No Water River website, along with a whole slew of other resources aimed at presenting poetry to children: http://www.nowaterriver.com/
Also included with the video is an interview by Renée with yours truly, which I have copied below:
Julian, who are you, where are you, and how long have you been a doodling fool?
I am an illustrator, comic book artist, graduate student and language instructor living in Montreal, Canada. I have been drawing comics since before I could write. In my earliest stories, featuring Speeder the Struthiomimus (an ostrich-like dinosaur), I would dictate…
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My Prufrock adaptation made it into Slate Magazine. Very exciting!
June Leighton 