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Before I say anything else, you’ve got to see this:

Now, if anyone can tell me what the hell is happening in this picture, please do.

Hello Folks,
I’ve got to say, I’d rather be reading one of E’s posts than writing my own, but since he’s busy, you know, writing movies and stuff, I figured I’d share a little something of my own. It’s not about indie movies, but it is about indie art. Comic books specifically.

I’m up at grad school in Middlebury, Vermont at the Bread Loaf School of English pursuing my MA in literature. It’s pretty cool. I mean, when I think literature, I for some reason always think of Dickens, but my three classes are about as far from Dickens as you can get: The Age of Hitchcock, The Graphic Novel, and The King James Bible. That’s right, I’m spending my summer watching movies, reading comics, and perusing the Bible. What a life I live. Anyway, as part of my graphic novel class, a classmate and I have set out to make a comic of our own about the school we’re at. We call it “The Graduals.” Here’s a sample page:

Now I know what you’re thinking. “Isn’t that Paul Muldoon in the background, the Princeton professor who is also the editor of poetry at the New Yorker and who The Times Literary Supplement called “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.”? Yes. Yes it is. Well done. I thought he was hard to pick out, but you’re right there he is. And yes, he was on The Colbert Report recently. I’ve even embedded the video right here:

You wish Ethan would post here more often, don’t you?