Tom Kaczynski Archive
Tom Kaczynski in Conversation with Noah Van Sciver
A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of chatting with Noah Van Sciver. We hit lots of topics, Uncivilized Books, publishing, comics, reminiscences, etc. I also get to hype some upcoming projects including Cartoon Dialectics, I Nina by Daniel Chmielewski & Olga Tokarczuk, and a new edition of Beta Testing the Apocalypse!
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Cartoon Dialectics 2: Apocalypse Is The Suburb Of Utopia
The new issue of Cartoon Dialectics is almost here! We were able to score a leftover batch of Pantone 804 fluorescent ink for the cover! It should be the perfect radioactive glow for the nihilistic content inside! Table of contents: Cover Your Mind is a Vast Landscape by Adalbert Arcane. New spatial analysis of
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Holy Ressentiment
Starting new regular comic strip feature: Aesthetic Education. It’s loosely inspired by recent readings of Schiller and Nietzsche. Serious, but funny.
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Universal Crisis
After weeks of teasing, my Event Horizon column on Crisis on Infinite Earths has finally seen the light of day! It’s pretty big, which is appropriate given the subject matter. I follow the history of the comic book crossover and how it eventually led to the emergence of shared universes. The article also explores
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The Omniversal Method
I will continue teasing my upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths (COIE) article (part of my Event Horizon column) by dropping another interesting bit of comics history that had to be mostly left on the cutting room floor. Here’s the story of Omniverse magazine, a 70s fanzine founded by Mark Gruenwald. Gruenwald, for those who
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Infinite Hyperobjects: Crisis on Infinite Earths
The upcoming Crisis on Infinite Earths (COIE) article that will appear in my TCJ column ended up with a lot of extra material that didn’t make the cut. In the process of writing the article, I generated many concepts and ideas, and thousands of words that don’t quite fit the article. A lot of
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Cartoon Dialectics #1
I bring my cartoon-theoretical focus on contemporary neuroses, obsessions, and contradictions. Did you know about the 36th CHAMBER OF COMMERCE? Get productivity tips from a master of Shaolin kung fu! Is there any possibility of Utopia after an orgy of modernity? What are komicxs? Irreverent, funny, and DINKy-award-winning Cartoon Dialectics becomes a regular series.
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Notes on Comic Book Maximalism
Maximalist Aesthetics Maximalism, in modern art, is usually seen as a reaction to minimalism (a post-WW II current in modern art). The art world tends to be very solipsistic and looks at its movements on a fairly narrow spectrum. I want to use the term a little more broadly. I want to think about
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2020 The First Half
How’s your 2020 going so far? Pandemic, unexpected relocation, pinched nerve, Minneapolis Riots, RIP Ruby, Pneumonia… what else you got 2020?
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Atari Force 1-13
S-F Heroes Atari Force is a title I admired from afar. I always loved the Jose Garcia Lopez art, and the fact that it was Science Fiction (S-F). With Gerry Conway writing, it always looked like it’d be a solid title by two creators at the top of their game. I had a few
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Us vs Them: Pandemic World
4.5.20 Levi R. Bryant’s fragmentary musings on the Covid-19 pandemic are interesting and beautifully written and worth a read. It sparked a lot of thoughts and musings of my own. I was in particular struck by Bryant’s speculation on the possibility of constituting an Us; a planetary Us: “Paraphrasing Badiou, the problem of politics
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