Restricted Frequency #156
Daddy-G, New Gods, TSG Tee...
1. Call Me Daddy
Cramping started Wednesday night strong enough to have Kelsey believe they were contractions. They were definitely strong enough to keep her from getting any sleep. By morning she was certain it would only be a matter of hours before giving birth.
Not the case. Cramping calmed down by mid morning, and we went about our day as usual. I reminded Kelsey of that time my sister-in-law thought she was going into labor that one time, but then an hour later decided she wasn't, and it wasn't until four days later that she actually gave birth.
This demoralized poor Kelsey a little because we were already a couple days past our due date and it started to feel to her that she would stay pregnant for life.
By 10:00pm Thursday night, she was having contractions. This time, she was sure of it.
2. Review: New Gods by Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby's NEW GODS isn't good comix, but it's pretty great Kirby comix. What I mean by that is, objectively speaking and judged with other great comix in mind, NEW GODS is an incredibly underwhelming and laughable read. But if you enter NEW GODS with Jack Kirby in mind, you'll likely get a kick out of it because this is Jack Kirby at his Kirbyest, fully leaning into all the things that became his trademarks: krackles and explosions, fighting superheroics, new characters with new inventive costumes being introduced every other page, along with throwaway sci-fi concepts.
The premise is interesting enough; the old gods have perished and from their destruction arose the New Gods. This bit is only really explored in brief over two pages, afterwards it's all about the drama and brimming war between the New Gods, namely those of New Genesis and those of Apokolips, two sister planets wherein the former is bright, colorful, and joyful and the latter is dark, doomed, and miserable.
3. The Solar Grid / Resist Dystopia Tee
New THE SOLAR GRID / RESIST DYSTOPIA tee now up on Garage.Ganzeer. I’ve wanted to do t-shirts for a while now, but I didn’t want them to be too “billboardy”; less advertisements for the graphic novel or my characters and a little more in the realm of concepts the graphic novel explores. Just the first of many, I hope. (Disclaimer: Bedhead not included.)
4. WAAT @ Met
I have just been informed that WE ARE ALL THINGS has been acquired by The Met! How nice that our unassuming little chapbook is being received so well. Written by Elliot Colla, illustrated and designed by me, with introduction by Molly Crabapple and published by Radix Media, you can still get your hands on a copy signed by me from my garage.ganzeer webshop.
5. TGIF?
I’m honestly surprised (and impressed) I managed to notice today was Saturday and get this newsletter out the window, because my days are now governed by schedule of newborn who knows not the notion of days and instead abides by the 2-hour feeding metronome. Day, night, or afternoon, it don’t matter, so now our lives feel like one continues existence of feeding, diaper-changing, and napping. I try to sneak in a bit of reading here and there, and by next week I’ll try to loop a little work back in there as well. As long as I can learn to do things efficiently in one-hour spurts (and sometimes with only one hand), I should be totally fine!
Hope you’re well, keeping creative, eating healthy, and avoiding the abyss of doom-scrolling.
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Chat in a couple weeks,
Ganzeer
Houston, TX
P.S. This edition was brought to you by the Mounir/Ganzeer alliance.
I know, I know, too many baby pics. Don’t worry, it’s my first week of fatherhood. I’ll lay off it soon enough :-]