what folks're saying:

"I'll get straight to the point. This book is fantastic."
– Shannon Smith, File Under Other

“…Hardships in life [are] hard to conquer, yet they are eased into submission with the words and visuals of this book.”
– Gary Hornberger, Razorcake

“Moorman is definitely a talented writer, consistently interesting in each story… it whets the reader’s appetite for what’s to come next”
– Sarah Morean, The Daily Crosshatch

“Brilliantly phrased and delicately drawn”
– Monica Anderson, Eye Candy

3.29.08

Books that saved my life lately:

One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry; Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott; Man and His Symbols, edited by Carl G. Jung; Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin by Ashley Montagu; The Relationship Cure by John Gottman (I know the title is stupid); Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain; The Enneagram in Love and Work by Helen Palmer; as always, James Kochalka's American Elf; the issues of MOME serializing Lewis Trondheim's "At Loose Ends" diary comic.

Got a lovely review from Shannon Smith at file under "other".

I'm sitting here watching Freaks and Geeks with Abby and things're all right.

You can read KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, a bilingual comic for MPLS panhandlers in PDF format for free! Here's a nice review from Sarah Morean at The Daily Crosshatch about it. She says, "this book gets at the heart of the matter and intelligently predicts and plays out scenarios that might really matter to a person who falls on hard times."

There will be a special sneak preview of GHOST COMICS, the benefit anthology for RS Eden premiering at MCAD's Mini-Comic Con, which coincides with the Off-Kilter Comics opening. It's April 4, 6 PM, and it stars Zak Sally, Ivan Brunetti, Lilli Carre, John Hankiewicz, Onsmith, and Dan Zettwoch. Gallery talk at MCAD, signing at Big Brain the next day (check the link). The Mini-Con is at MCAD's Student Center (2nd floor) from 12-7 or so. There's an article in the Southwest Journal next Monday about the exhibit that has some words from me.

GHOST COMICS stars Eli Bishop, Jeffrey Brown, Allison Cole, Warren Craghead, Jordan Crane, John Hankiewicz, David Heatley, Lucy Knisley, Mike Lowery, Jessica McLeod. I'm the editor. Yes, I'm a bragger.

Look out for me in Not My Small Diary #14, Candy or Medicine vol. 4, Eye Candy Zine vol. 2, and Good Minnesotan Episode #2. (My story for Good Minnesotan, appropriately, is about Bob Dylan. Strangely enough, my friend Abby was recently stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again (just like that great song from Blonde on Blonde)! The power was off in Mobile, Alabama and they couldn't leave.)

I updated the links in the about/contact section of the site to include more lovely folks.

I finally dropped off the anthology zine I made from the work of my Autobiographical Comix class at MPLS queer youth community center District 202. It's a wonderful place, I woulda killed for one like it growing up.

Jessica McLeod's comics make me laugh.