The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Living Desert
"The simple truth of having lived in the desert for most of my life [is that] unprepared people don’t 'go missing' in the desert in the middle of summer. What happens is that they die."
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Kevin Quigley is a cartoonist and painter, formerly of Brooklyn, NY, who has been living in South Jersey for the past 25 years. His cartoons, comics, and essays have appeared in publications by Fantagraphics, Top Shelf, Simon & Schuster, Picture Box, and Blast Books, as well as in The Funny Times and Japan's GARO. His solo book, Big Place Comics, was the recipient of a Xeric Grant in 1997. That same year, he edited Comics Underground Japan (Blast), a landmark anthology of alternative manga. Quigley's paintings have appeared in South Jersey galleries from Milville to Cape May, in Philadelphia, NYC, Jerome, Arizona, and Tokyo, Japan. More of June Bug Versus Hurricane and many of the paintings can be found here.
Among the Moleskine People
I’ve long been of the opinion that there are exactly two places where it’s acceptable to wear a bow tie: when wearing a tuxedo at a designated black tie event…