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Seth T. Hahne

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Hahne rhymes with bonny || Graphic novel critic || Artist/Comics || Formerly an insufferable ass, sometimes relapsing, sorry. http://linktr.ee/sethhahne #art #comics

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · Nov 19

I started making comics in 2014 when I was 40yrs old. A comics critic, I was inspired by the zines and work I saw at SPX 2013. I thought, why shouldn't I make the things I love. This will be an ongoing thread collecting links to my work, free-to-read. Some of it is all me, some is by collaboration.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 5h

Bird loses a lot when not in color

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 5h

Having just read Kirk W. Johnson's The Feather Thief, I decided to do a resplendent quetzal for today's churchdoodle.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 5h

A lot of people read The Road as bleak because they're focused on the setting rather than the book. This is like calling Fury Road bleak. You can, for sure, but Fury Road isn't its setting and neither is McCarthy's The Road.

Larcenet's graphic novel version though? That really is pretty bleak.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 1d

I made that a decade ago to go along with John McCorinthian. Poor guy really went through the ringer back then.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 1d

True or false, John McCain eventually recovered from Purity (Black Oil!) infection in season 5.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 1d

I put poop emoji stickers in my Moby-Dick book. Pretty happy with life right now.

Rough draft for pages 32-33:

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 1d

I guess vol 2 came out in Sep. 3 is mid Nov.

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 1d

Two volumes in and Tower Dungeon so far is pretty easily the most endearing and accessible of Tsutomu Nihei's work. I'm actually mad I have to wait til Nov for vol 3. That's a pretty rare bit of anticipation for me. I love Nihei's work but he doesn't usually leave me slavering for What Comes Next.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many amazing comic out there

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

Well, top 20 minus No One Is Safe, which is in a cardboard tube stored away because it's so large

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

Took a special shelfie of my All-Time Top 20 Comics - just to be cute.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

I'm torn bc yes, I'd love to be able to fasttrack job opportunities that would merely require paper, but simultaneously, I'd also love to take higher level courses in my field of choice.

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

but at a class or two a week, I wouldn't finish a BA til I was 60 - at which point I'll be a withered old husk from overwork :D

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

I suppose it's less age necessarily and more the age at which I could fit years of schooling into my life in a sustainable way. I could manage that through my 20s, but I'm already at frayed edges with work and family, so throwing in a class or two a week would be tough but I could maybe make it work

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

I am on the exact opposite side of the country in Orange County, CA, but this is good to know!

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

I just don't see 4+ years of full-time school with four kids and a mortgage as remotely feasible. Are there universities that look at 30 years of adult life experience as time-served and can zip you into a credential or masters program or something?

I just don't know how any of that works.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, so. Is there any reasonable way a 52 year old guy (who couldn't afford to go to college when I was at that age) could get a college degree without going to school full-time. Really, I'd just like to be able to teach lit classes at a highschool (private) level.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 2d

This played over the opening credits of the early '90s dub on the Fox VHS edition of Howls Moving Castle. I never forgot. I'd come home from school and pop this on most days.

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 3d

It's slabbing comics. Saved you a click.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know who Derek Thompson is but I know who László Krasznahorkai is.

My guess is that every combined moment of Derek Thompson's life post-childhood won't measure up to the grandeur of Satantango.

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 3d

Just in case you were worried, I can assure you that Rob Davis wraps up the Motherless Oven trilogy with some truly wonderful stuff.

Text from a page of The Book Of Forks. OCR failed hard on this so essentially: The immortals, in trying to reinvent death had to reinvent people. The only way to do that was to marry life to death -- and to crush contents 10,000 times larger than the world inside the new humans.

More from The Book Of Forks: After the extinction of music, due to the farming of nostalgia...

That hits.

A map of Grave Acres from book 2 over Bear Park from book 1. Only means anything if you've read the books.

A picture of one of Davis's post-man, sitting inside his mother under a downpour of knives. Just a really cool illustration.

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 3d

All this talk about the benefits of a Cashless Society?! we will not stand for it!

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly shocking to find that I only read this a year ago. Feels like three *at least*.

Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 3d

László Krasznahorkai just won the Nobel for literature, for whatever that's worth. I read Satantango a last year and that was a pretty incredible experience. Hoping to get to his The Melancholy Of Resistance in the next couple months.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · Nov 23

Book 25 of 2024:
Sátántangó by László Krasznahorkai (1985), translated by George Szirtes (2012), performed by Grover Gardner (2020)

This was, I think, very good and very grim. It's Lord Of The Flies but with adults and without the readers complaining that it's too pessimistic.

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Seth T. Hahne @sethhahne.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yes.