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Justin Hall Celebrates "No Straight Lines: kvartet Decades of Queer Comics"
In putting tillsammans "No Straight Lines: fyra Decades of Queer Comics," cartoonist and teacher Justin Hall has taken a very broad subject matter and managed to condense decades of fiction and nonfiction comics into an impressive, enskild work.
The book includes many creators whose work dealing with LGBTQ themes has been lauded by critics and fans alike, including Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse and Roberta Gregory as well as offerings from creators like Eric Shanower and Paige Braddock, who tend to be known for their less politically-charged projects. More than simply a historical look back, the anthology also features its share of up and coming voices like Ellen Forney, Erika Moen and Ariel Schrag. We spoke with Hall, who teaches at the California College of Arts, about the origins, process and final result of his ambitious project.
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You might want to read the book’s Introduction before reading this first chapter — if you haven’t already…
Chapter One
Putting Everything Out There [Justin Hall]
In 1994, Justin Hall invented oversharing. Of course, we didn’t have a name yet for the compulsion to tell the online world too much about yourself. Back then, Hall was just an eccentric nineteen-year-old college student who recorded minutiae of his life on his personal website; no one knew that the self-revelation he found so addictive would one day become a temptation for millions.
Beginning at the dawn of the Web, Hall parked himself at the intersection of the Bay Area’s remnant counterculture and Silicon Valley’s accelerating economy and started writing down everything he saw. His website, at www.links.net, became a comprehensive personal gazette and archive, full of ephemeral details and intimate epiphanies, portraits of the Web&#
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human petting zoo
dated Tuesday 23 January 2024
How to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a personal web site? I considered this morning as I fashioned a three-legged stool over my morning ritual oracular vapors.
I thought it would be good to have a petting zoo here. Basically, I thought, I'll declare links.net a virtual single human petting zoo mostly in text. I've already set myself up as an exhibit, so I don't have to do very much to decorate.
A good chunk of people will at least peek at a petting zoo. What animals did they bring to this situation which doesn't otherwise have animals in it? And some still-large subset of people will charge in to a petting zoo, sidling up alongside any living thing to begin inter-species speed dating.
So I can put myself at the center of this Justin's Links petting zoo. Look, my virtual skin - doesn't it look smooth and hairless? That's because most of the photos on this site are from my callow days. Now I'm a 49 year old skinbag, who had a