Ive Got A Question For All Artists:

I’ve got a question for all artists:

How do you guys cope with putting dampeners on yourselves?

Presently, I’m in Art School, and a lot of my projects come with prompts or instructions to fulfill. I often find myself putting dampeners on the work I’m actually interested in doing in order to fulfill “the requirement” of the work. Sometimes I do it to myself sometimes on personal pieces. I think it’s partially just a remnant of High School classes and how down to the letter everything felt then, that I had to do this in a very specific way to get the grades you need. How do you guys “let loose” and just make work? Not just doodling, but a fully fledged piece you just let yourself have fun with?

Kal Jerico

Half-Life be Like:

"Hello, Mister Free Man", Gman said to the mf effectively imprisoned in a giant facility that's trying to kill him.

Not very "Free", is he?

I don’t have all the answers about the mess going on down there, nor do most other people, 1) because mainstream news outlets are incentivized to push it under the U.S. Government’s ever-bulging rug, and 2) because people haven’t taken action due to reason 1.

But I do know that any protest that outcries and lays bare a government’s corruption, its deliberate moves to oppress its citizens, and its profiteering of the suffering of others must go on and ring out for everyone to hear.

In order to have a healthy democratic nation where we are permitted to—encouraged to disagree with others, to talk it out, brutality at the hands of the state is never-EVER-the first option.

Let the youths of America speak.

That part

I heard the news, and the world got just a little bit duller around the edges. The sharpness was gone. The abrasiveness, the brashness and boldness of our youths was ground down a little bit more than it already has.

For anyone going on 20 next year: go out. Make stands on soapboxes. Do some crazy, maybe a little bit illegal shit in the real world.

We need that now more than ever.

Right fucking now.

R.I.P. Steve Albini.

He provided the philosophical basis and ethos I have carried on well into adulthood.

He proved that you can get older be half an edgelord and still grow as a person.

We lost a real one and some who enabled and created a lot of great tunes.

Rest easy you put in a good shift on earth.

Love when they turn Bruce’s getup into a wild fuckin animal!!!!!

Here's the cover to ABSOLUTE BATMAN #3 by the incredible Nick Dragotta and Frank Martin!