out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

thene@thene.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i am working on a very, very long blog post that could really have fit into a skeet: When someone posts that "this website/journal article/etc proves my dramatic claim!!!" and then does not link to the website, journal article, etc, it is because it does not in fact prove their dramatic claim.

One of my favorite pages from my collage zine, Cryptic

The Dowager

I let a case of pareidolia in the under layer take over and played “Bread and Roses” over and over and this is what came out of it.

For a show @saturn2169.bsky.social is putting together around objects with menacing auras at Demo Brewing here in Chicago

My first Chicago art show at Ravenswood Reproductions for their Low Brow Group Show

I had “Heart of Saturday Night” stuck in my head the whole time I painted this.

That first time seeing Prodigy

My wife named him Hugo

Finally got the tattoo I’ve wanted for a while (my first)

Fun with collage

We can all have fun with collages

Working on a zine about when I worked at the dump picking trash

Aquatic Panda Distro is excited to announce that Issue #0 of Cran Magazine is now in our online shop! Cran (like "crayon") Magazine is a new anthology series by Aquatic Panda Distro. Each Issue is based around a new and interesting subject and includes indie comics, puzzles, games, trivia and more!

In my want to explore platforms as alternatives to Instagram, I’ve started putting some of my comics on Webcomic Studio. Some links: lowmediums.webcomic.studio grayskies.webcomic.studio nightmares.webcomic.studio

Nightmares and Other Concerns

An anthology comic that mixes spooky, funny, and autobiographical elements. Print copies available at johnwenz.store.

nightmares.webcomic.studio