The Artist Goes Shopping
Some of the wonderful art supplies at Carter Sexton. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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RIP David Lynch
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My, My American Bukkake & My, My American Bukkake 2 Now Available Online
For the first time in many, many years, my seminal (!) American Bukkake comics are now available online. You can view them, plus read an introduction about their production and publication history, on my website here.
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Reading Goals for 2025 and a Return to Erotic Comics Art
A panel from an erotic comic I created some years ago: “My, My American Bukkake Too”
2024 is over. Thank god. 2025 has begun. It just has a better ring to it, doesn’t it? In any case, when I was promoting my memoir in late 2023, I was asked what my favorite book I had read that year was and I realized the answer was: none. Yes, in fact, in 2023, I read exactly zero books. That was in part on purpose because I was finishing writing my own book, and I didn’t want some other author’s voice in my head. That said, it was a little embarrassing. I was a writer, an author. Shouldn’t I be reading books?
So in 2024, I decided to read some books and track my progress. In all I read a total of 21 books, which was a lot more than the no books I’d read the year before. So a win in that regard. But the reality is that I didn’t like most of the books I read in 2024. I’d chosen them mostly at random and for who knows what reason. There was fiction, nonfiction, memoir, self-help, one photo book, and graphic novels.
But my favorite book was what could be described as a picture book: Leela Corman’s Victory Parade. It was stunning and inventive and startling and arresting and wildly creative. In a way, I felt a little silly. I write words. Wasn’t I supposed to prefer one of the other books I’d read, with a lot of words, like, you know, Pynchon or Marlowe or someone like that? No, I liked the one with the pictures.
In any case, I decided I’d do another reading challenge this year and chart my progress publicly again, but in 2025 I’m going to attempt to only read books that are picture books. For example, my first book of the year, which is a reread and which I’ve already started, is Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.
That title selection may hold a clue. The truth is: I want to create a new comic strip, which is something I haven’t done in some time. Quite a few years ago, I created two erotic comics about the times I went to go see bukkake-themed adult movies being filmed. Those comics are called “My, My American Bukkake” and “My, My American Bukkake Too.” And I’ve long wanted to do a third bukkake comic strip. So I think perhaps this re-interest in pictures and words is laying the groundwork for that.
All of which is to say, you can follow my picture book reading progress at BOOKS I READ.
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Blue Skies
The billboard at David Zwirner’s terrific William Eggleston show. For more photos, follow me on Instagram.
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Secret Headquarters
The view out the window at Secret Headquarters. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Books I Read in 2024: Eventually Everything Connects
I adored this book. It’s such an exciting mix of genres, prose and images, the political and the personal. I can’t recall having read a book quite like this. She fearlessly ranges from her sexual experiences to her politically ideologies and relentlessly sticks to the truth that any and all binary positions are false. I would hope some young adults get to read this book, as it serves as a timely, relevant guidepost for those figuring it out.
Books I Read in 2024: Victory Parade, I Hate Men, My Friend Dahmer, The Crying of Lot 49, Machines in the Head, Big Magic, The Valley, End of Active Service, An Honest Woman, The Money Shot, Atomic Habits, Finding Your Own North Star, Crazy Cock, Sigrid Rides, Your Money Or Your Life, The Big Sleep, Eventually Everything Connects, Smutcutter, Shine Shine Shine, A Serial Killer’s Daughter, Confessions of a Serial Killer
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The Reverse Cowgirl Diaries #8
In this week’s edition of my newsletter, The Reverse Cowgirl Diaries, I’ve got a pole dancing mom, a substance that makes you hotter, a male porn star monologue, and more! Hit the button at the bottom of the newsletter to subscribe and get all the sex news that’s fit to print in your email inbox every week.
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All My Friends Hate AI But I Think It's Fun
All my friends hate AI, but I enjoy it. It allows me to live alternate lives. Like this one, where I’m a cat painter.
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NoHo in Yellow
Some yellow art in a parking lot in North Hollywood. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Life in LA (Think)
Recent scenes from my life in Los Angeles: stars, think, kick. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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C U Next Tuesday
A drawing on a rock at Empire Shopping Center in Burbank. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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Life in LA (Dead End)
Recent scenes from my life in Los Angeles: art, dead end, art. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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C Is for Conjoined Twins
In the early 2000s, I was working on a project I called The Fetish Alphabet. It was a series of flash fictions, all named for the letters of the alphabet, each letter representing a fetish. Over time, I had various of those stories published on various literary platforms. In 2003, Born Magazine published one: “C Is for Conjoined Twins.” I don’t quite recall how it worked, but the idea was the site was coupling texts by writers with multimedia creators, and the text and multimedia were combined into one cool result. My story was turned into a Flash-based (I believe) … I don’t know what to call it but artwork sounds about right … by the French artist Rolito. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, you can see the interactive, animated original story here. (This interactive work is also cited in Donna Leishman’s “The Flash Community: Implications for Post-Conceptualism.”)
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Transforma
A moment from Chris Cunningham’s Tranforma at Deitch. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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Post Human
I took this photo today at Post Human at Jeffrey Deitch. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Anna for August
Love the gender play in this video featuring queer icon Anna Shumate for Playboy. Directed by Brooke James.
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Body Parts
I took this photo in Burbank on Magnolia Boulevard. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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The Reverse Cowgirl Diaries #4
I know as a “serious” creative, which I’ve never really considered myself to be, you’re supposed to hate AI, but I had so much fun when I used Meta AI to create my latest newsletter. With prompting, Meta AI made up sex toys and virtual erotic poetry readings and fiction it claimed I wrote. There were some fascinating exchanges between me and Meta AI along the way, too. I also really had fun using Substack’s somewhat limited but whatever AI image generator to illustrate the newsletter. In any case, check it out here and subscribe.
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Red
Brittney Leeanne Williams’ The Form in Which the Spirit Dresses show at Anat Ebgi is phenomenal. Thru Oct. 5.
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