Just read Lynda Barry's One!Hundred!Demons!
Her cartoon style is much more readable in color than B&W in the paper. Never read her before, because of that difficulty, but came across a mention of this book, and had to find out about her. Give her another try. Very much worthwhile. It's a potent little book. Familiar demons.
Now, I want to bring out my hundred demons. Most have exited through this space over the years, after clogging it up for a while resisting being exorcised. They are struggling, squirmy, entities. Children and families, dreams and realities.
More contact with the first cousin once removed. Grandchild of my mother's brother. Analogous issues, she has been braver - to look everyone up, do the research. Safer for me, to come in on the edges and peer in, a kindly disinterested hand on my shoulder. Especially now, as I live in my own real home, with dirt to dig, and a guy and cat to love. I can deal with it, now.
I've explored variations on old sayings before, so this article on Proverbs filled in a few more, from a slightly different perspective.
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Knew her slightly in college, in the late 70s... kind of a long time ago. Evergreen State did turn out the cartoonists, eh? Matt Groening too.
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Dale,
Oh, yeah, that's where and when, ain't it? I remember Life in Hell from my college paper - edgiest thing I'd ever seen at that point. And I couldn't read her stuff then, partly because I was too raw, partly a simple dislike of her style.
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