My roommate has a subscription to National Geographic. When I was younger my father got a subscription to it, but I would only look at the pictures. Now I actually read the articles. One article in particular from the December 2009 issue struck my interest.
It’s an article about a man who went and lived with the bush people known as the Hadza for two weeks. His portrait of them is of a content and happily ignorant people. They’re unsentimental and …

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This is an email interview conducted with Andrew, the creator of Lewis’s Life. I wrote about it a week or so ago. You should definitely go check it out if you haven’t already.
What inspired you to make Lewis’s Life? Did you always have an idea of what direction you would go or was it more of a learning process in terms of arriving at your current vision?
Honestly, I just wanted a comic to play around with (I made this abundantly …

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Empty suits on a train.
White dress nestled among them,
Hanging by fleshy appendage rather than wire.
Eye grabs eye for short moment,
Red lips purse into an upward corner.
White teeth flash and thick brow raises in response.
Man forms in favored suit.
Newly created mind floats through possibilities;
Skin brushes against skin,
Soft word spoken into flattered ear,
Trip taken on road without destination,
Arm embraces waist beneath starry sky.
Foot steps forward confidently then hesitates.
Coy smile disappears inside disappointed frown.
Metal screeches against metal with high pitched squeal.
Dress floats out …

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This past year has been an interesting one as far as how my impressions of different people have evolved. I have a problem with seeing things in people that aren’t really there.
It’s so hard to separate your quick snap judgments of people from reality. So many times I’m interacting with a caricature and not the real person. It makes things easier when you do that, because you don’t have to invest the mental energy to truly evaluate them and try to see them realistically.
This …

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This past week I discovered an awesome little comic called Lewis’s Life. It’s quite different from anything else out there that I’ve stumbled upon, which makes it really hard to narrow down what exactly makes the comic so special. I’m going to try anyway.
First of all, the art can be pretty delightful. It reminds me of my days in middle school where spirals were primarily doodling devices and secondarily note containers. I’ve found myself doodling more in class since I started reading the …

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