Joe Palmer of the Gay League and the GLA Yahoo Group interviewed me last week, and I’ve been too unfocused to post about it. Which makes me seem ungrateful, which I’m not. The interview was a lot of fun, and I got to talk at length about things I’ve never said before. So, apologizes, Joe, and thanks again!

I wish I had mentioned a few things that I didn’t: the parallel between gay comics and AIDS dramas of the 80′s and early 90′s (evolve or die (so to speak)), Fun Home by Alison Bechdel as an example of novel coming out stories, not hoping that all my students came to a bad end (so 2005); and also not using “metaphorically speaking” and “nuclear” twice each. And more than anything else, I should have been clear that everything I said applies to me and my writing more than it does anyone else’s.

Next time.

UPDATE the FIRST: Tomorrow after work, I am going to HEB to buy some Ginkgo Bilboa because tonight I remembered two how-could-I-possibly-have-forgotten-them events in my comics’ history: the first is that I did a comics strip for the Colorado Springs LGBTQ newspaper, called “Minds Like Hamburger”; and two, I spoke on Prism’s Up-and-Coming LGBTQ Comics Creators panel at Comic-Con in 2007 (an event that still thrills me when I think about it). Sorry about my faulty memory!

hybristophilia

I love “Criminal Minds”! From last night’s episode, I learned this new word which explains the phenomenon of why otherwise sane people marry Death Row convicts. Even more interesting, it’s derived from “hubris”, a hallmark of Greek and Shakespearean tragedies.