A few memories seem to drift in the ethos. Though founded on real events, Woshibai’s preternatural story telling is still here. He details random childhood memories of living with his grandparents for three years in Japan. He turns down the lights and begins thinking about the past. It begins with the artist getting a migraine while trying to meet an art deadline. Migraine is an autobiographical snap shot of Woshibai’s early life. Migraine is a lianhuanhua, a Chinese book style described by publisher Paradise Systems as pocket-sized pulp comics. So, when I discovered that he produced a book called Migraine, I felt a draw to purchase it. Example below (click image to expand my crude edit). His stories are simple, alien and humorous. But I quickly fell in love with his comic strips. I can’t remember how I came across it. Maybe during one of my rabbit hole searches for a new artist to inspire and entertain. Coffee later will balance everything out once the mellowness has died. At least with those I get a little light-headed and floaty. Very interesting, suspenseful noir so far. And the Bogart/Bacall classic Dark Passage is on TCM. It was almost like a sin if you called in sick at my previous job, which has stuck with me for whatever reason. Despite taking my meds, I woke up with a throbbing cancer covering the entire front of my head. I went to sleep this morning with its fetus latching onto my brain. Listen: “ Time in a Tree” by Raleigh Ritchie.ĭamned migraine.
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