The Catch Up<\/a> Winter Issue is for sale. Josh Burggraf<\/a> and I are the comics editors for this issue of the poetry\/comics journal. It has comics by Box Brown<\/a>, Victor Kerlow<\/a>, Andrei Molotiu<\/a>, Jo-Jo Sherrow<\/a>, and others. You can buy it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Robert Boyd, local Houston art critic and former Comics Journal staff member, has written a lengthy blog post<\/a> discussing Kirby’s impact on art comics, in which he compares Vortex<\/em> to comics by Jesse Jacobs<\/a> and Jesse Moynihan<\/a>. I’m honored to be discussed in such good company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew, it’s been a while since I’ve posted on this blog. I’ve gotten lost in drawing comics and I haven’t had time to put anything here but I’ve met most of my deadlines so I’m going to get back to my regular schedule of Tuesday\/Friday blog posts. I’ve got two things to tell y’all about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[53,109,126,329,346,433,552,705,709],"class_list":["post-3486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-andrei-molotiu","tag-box-brown","tag-catch-up","tag-jack-kirby","tag-jo-jo-sherrow","tag-max-bode","tag-robert-boyd","tag-victor-kerlow","tag-vortex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hypercastle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-05-29_image1.jpg\")
Catch Up Winter Issue, cover by Max Bode<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.hypercastle.com\/images\/2012-05-29_image2.jpg\")
A Jack Kirby drawing of a Celestial from the Eternals<\/em> comics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n