The Toronto Comic Arts Festival takes place this coming weekend. It’s kind of a big year for me as I will be at the Koyama Press table promoting “The World of Gloria Badcock”, a comic that debuted last November. I’m also in a couple of new queer-esque anthologies that launch at the Festival. I created […]

I recently inherited an almost complete set of “After Dark” magazines.  This was a very gay publication focusing on the arts, entertainment and fashion that ran from the late 60s to the early 80s. They are an intensely rich and deep deep deep pool of inspiration – I feel a series coming on! The final […]

Here is a portrait of Babe Paley, one of Truman Capote’s “swans”. This woman is the daughter of the famous conductor Arturo Toscanini and wife of the famous pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Also from a photo by Slim Aarons. A Balenciaga hat. Another hat by Balenciaga. Here is a portrait of the divine Ms. Dunaway in her […]