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Just next to my local library, there is a labyrinth. Instead of a minotaur, the center holds a white post which says “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in a multiplicity of languages. Not a recent picture. The path is defined with brick and covered with gravel over bare earth. Over time, the gravel […] I think if this peculiar project has taught me anything, it’s that I never would have made it as a professional artist. Because I can’t even give the stuff away. Exhibit A In terms of production, I’m still slightly behind the rate of a flower a day that I’d originally set for myself, […] Today, according to my calculations, is the one year anniversary of the day I embarked on this mad project. The gremlins in the head did win enough battles, so that my current rate is a little less than a flower a day, but I hope to rectify that soon. It was easy enough to keep […] I’ve done a bit of tweakery to simplify the link to the Ten Thousand Flowers project and I decided to go ahead and register the domain 10KFlowers.com to point here. (I’m still keeping Wonderbink.com, though, because who else would want it?) It’s been not quite a year since I embarked on this crazy idea and […] How do you break into comics? Post your comics on the web. Poof! You’re in comics. How to make any money in comics? That’s the big question. –Evan Dorkin, in a Twitter post. Evan Dorkin is a comic book artist who is probably best known as the creator of Milk and Cheese and, more recently, […] Yes, I will be at the Doo-Nanny. Yes, I’m bringing art. And flowers. Yes, I’m looking forward to it. No, I haven’t finished packing yet. Excuse me while I get on that. It’s been roughly six months since I got it in my head that I would draw and give away ten thousand flowers and I think I’ve gotten a grand total of six envelopes mailed in my direction. When I infiltrated Flux 2011 and set myself up at a table, I was able to draw and […] So for my 2012, I have decided instead of the usual resolutions about exercise and getting organized, I’m going to take on three self-imposed challenges. The one we’ll discuss here pertains, as you might have guessed, to my Ten Thousand Flowers project. I knew when I set myself the task of drawing ten thousand of […] I find that when I give myself a ridiculous but quantifiable task such as, say, drafting a 50,000 word novel in thirty days, it helps to have some kind of visual aid that allows me to keep track of how far I’ve come and how far I have to go. By breaking it down into […] After making such a huge show of posting my letter to the Postmaster General regarding my misadventures in acquiring an International Reply Coupon, it seemed only fair that I make note of the response that landed in my mailbox yesterday. I have scanned it (with some redactions) and present it below.
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