Illustrator Nigel Buchanan:

One of my OSU comrades has just started a literary journal devoted to nonfiction, called FIVE. She asked me to contribute something for the inaugural issue, so I did. If you're interested, you can read it here.

Swedish artist Lena Malm's “Papperskollektion #1″ (paper clothes):





Something else interesting to check out is this Estonian Demonstration About Nothing:

David Herbert got his MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University:

Big Thunder

The Curse

VHS

German artist Sebastian Meschenmoser:

Cristi Rinklin got her MFA at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis:

Doublespace
(2005)

Gush II
(2004)

Apparition
(2006)

The arresting weirdness of Ashley Snow Macomber:

The Queen, Villain #1
(2005)

The Child/Hero
(2005)

Vampire

(2005)

Japanese artist Tomoko Konoike:

Chapter Two: Giant

Chapter Three: Wreck

Click here to read a Žižek interview in The Believer.

Click here for the heartbreaking story of Louis Wain, the man who painted cats:

Three great ones from The Complete Calvin & Hobbes Archive:
(click them to view clearly)

I am agog.

Last week I received Octopus Magazine #8, which is a knockdown fantastic collection of 8 chapbooks put out by folks in Nebraska with impeccable taste:

The Knife-Grasses by Julie Doxsee
The Ohio System by Jen Tynes & Erika Howsare
Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
DJ Spinoza's Dozen by Eugene Ostashevsky
The Book of Truants & Projectorlight by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
The Tides by Genya Turovskaya
The Continuing Misadventures of Andrew, the Headless Talking Bear by Jonah Winter
Goodnight Lung by Samuel Amadon

Not only are these terribly good looking, but they're also beautiful on the inside.

Our kitty can't decide which to read first.

Esquire magazine sent 250 writers a napkin and asked them to put something on it and send it back. Some of the writers they chose were super cool like Aimee Bender, Kevin Brockmeier, Christopher Sorrentino, and Jack Pendarvis. You can click here to see who else and check out the results.

Here is another great writer, Benjamin Percy's response:

German artist Amelies Welt:

Stelzengängerin

der Spargelwächter

Wiesenidyll

Check out David Hofmann's Box Doodle Project:

by
Euridice Conceicao

by
Irene

by
Kopa