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About Me

I draw comics. I read. I watch TV. Sometimes I drink too much wine. You can find some of my comics at my website Cheating at Solitaire .

My Interests

Books, comics, comedy, movies, snacks, wine, bitching about bad comics on The Comics Journal Message Board , table top RPGs, including my geektacular "Agents of A.S.C.E.N.D." campaign on RPOL ...

I'd like to meet:

The man who wrote "Danny Boy"

Music:

I hate music.

Except maybe for David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Curve, Bryan Ferry, The Finn Brothers, Joe Jackson, Joy Division, The Magnetic Fields, Bob Mould, New Order, Prince, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, Split Enz, Stereolab, Wire, Stevie Wonder, and countless others...

Movies:

Better Off Dead, Blade Runner, Casablanca, From Russia With Love, Guys and Dolls, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Lion in Winter, North by Northwest, Pillow Talk, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Short Cuts, Superman: The Movie, Trading Places, Horny Little Devils 2

Television:

: Current shows: Big Love, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Dirty Sexy Money, Hardball with Chris Matthews, House, Mad Men, Mythbusters, Nip/Tuck, Project Runway, Real Time with Bill Maher, Saturday Night Live, Top Chef, Venture Bros.

Classic or canceled shows: The Avengers, The Bob Newhart Show, Bosom Buddies, The Brini Maxwell Show, Cupid, Deadwood, Freaks and Geeks, Gilmore Girls, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Newhart, Remington Steele, Rome, Seinfeld, Star Trek (all series, but especially TOS and Voyager), What's My Line?, WKRP in Cincinnati

Books:

Last five (prose) books read: The Twilight Lords, Richard Berleth; Homo Politicus, Dana Milbank; American Creation, Joseph Ellis; The Medieval Machine, Jean Gimpel; Persuasion, Jane Austen

Last five (comic) books read: Teen Titans Lost Annual #1, Bob Haney, Jay Stephens, Mike Allred; The Last Musketeer, Jason; Will Eisner's The Spirit #13, Various; The Acme Novelty Library #18, Chris Ware; Classic Avengers #8, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Heroes:

Kate Bornstein, Candis Cayne, Howard Chaykin, Noam Chomsky, Elvis Costello, Julie Doucet, Will Eisner, Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, George Herriman, Robert Klein, Chris Onstad, Bertrand Russell, Charles Schulz, Bruce Sterling, Alex Toth

My Blog

I take the fun out of politics

I wasn't gonna post this, but today's Potomac Primaries have me a little excited about the process......
Posted by T. Avery on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:08:00 PST

Tongue twisters for rednecks

Those of you who don't have an Anglo-friendly name can, hopefully, relate. Me, I just like watching hicks struggle with unusual phoneme sequences....
Posted by T. Avery on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:47:00 PST

Is a bear holy?

Does The Pope shit in the woods? Once again, the answer is yes to both.(People kept asking me when I was gonna do "another one with the bear". So, here it is.)...
Posted by T. Avery on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:24:00 PST

If it’s heady, it must be Thursday.

More fun to come later today. Enjoy the Dirtheads......
Posted by T. Avery on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:57:00 PST

Getting on with it...

Technical difficulties and competing obligations have me a bit behind on Julia Caesar. All apologies. In any event, I think it's best if we just continue with Dirty Tuesday. Enjoy....
Posted by T. Avery on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:02:00 PST

11:25 pm

Thus endeth the hourly comic for 2008. Almost as good as sex, except I didn't lose a whit of weight. Remember Julia Caesar debuts on Sunday during halftime at the Super Bowl. Did your team not make it...
Posted by T. Avery on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:46:00 PST

10:34 pm

"But it doesn't look so much like pot roast," you say. Be fair. I ate the reference material....
Posted by T. Avery on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:44:00 PST

9:46 pm

Exercising is easy. Losing weight is hard.
Posted by T. Avery on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:47:00 PST

8:34 pm

If I had had more than fifteen minutes to draw it, I'd have shown some cool joint lock....
Posted by T. Avery on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:03:00 PST

7:04 pm

Ink 'em if ya got 'em...
Posted by T. Avery on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:56:00 PST