Susanne Reece

@susannemreece.bsky.social

Texadelphian. Comics, comics poetry, visual essays. SVA MFA Visual Narrative alum, freelance copywriter. www.biblioteksyrinx.com

Weeks 20 and 21 of a 4-year documentary journal project. I lumped 2 together because it was a struggle this time and I am wondering if I even want to keep going with it? Meanwhile, this war plans group chat thing seems sticky enough to not just go away?

Handlettered illustrated journal entry documenting the past 2 weeks focused on Hannah Arendt's concept of the banality of evil-first page. Images of Arendt and the cover of her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem.Second page of a handlettered journal entry documenting the last 2 weeks. Text is about everyday acts and evasions of Germans during the 1930s and 40s. Line drawings of people walking based on street photos from Berlin in the 1930s.Third page of a handlettered journal entry covering the past 2 weeks concentrated on acts of individuals. Mentions the Jim Crow South and events in Washington, including the capitulation of both Columbia University and the law firm Paul, Weiss. Line drawing of a 1950s middle-class family seen from the back, and of a young man hunched over looking at his phone.

I follow a few people here who post in German, and today the newspaper Die Welt published an op-ed by Musk, not content to meddle just in our politics, weighing in on Germany's supposed ills and prescribing as the cure the far-right AfD party (essentially, neo-Nazis). [I block early and often]