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Working on this new King-Cat is like cutting down an oak tree. I chop away at it little by little, day after day.

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New BONEY ISLAND OBSERVER up on Ye Olde PaTr30n page. This is my monthly newsletter for supporters, featuring (this time around): Beloit Panel! KC 83 Update! Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy! and More??

LINK: Volume Seven, Number Eleven: Nov. 5, 2023 | Patreon

THANK YOU!

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Hi John, would you like to get an invite for bluesky?

Sure! Is it any good? Thank you...

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Wow! Three of Chicago's best cartoonists are coming to Beloit College next Monday, November 6 at 4 pm, for a reading and panel discussion moderated by the inimitable Lynda Barry!

Come see Mike Centeno, Keiler Roberts, and Sam Szabo read their wonderful comics in beautiful Pearsons Hall, while Lynda joins them in conversation. I'll be there too, worrying about the tech. Books will be available afterwards for purchase and signing.

This event is free and open to the general public! I hope to see you there!

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Hey Folx, my latest #Patreon update is up now, and it's FREE for the WHOLE WORLD™ to "enjoy"! Sign up for as low as $3/month to get your very own GENUINE® King-Cat Fan Club Membership Card, plus access to gobs of excloosive online content like comix, essays, reviews, and other sputum. You can even sign up to get stuff in the mail, too!

"MID"-MONTH UPDATE: October 24, 2023 | Patreon

DANKE SCHÖN!!!

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New PRAIRIE POTHOLE up now for subscribers at my Patreon page! Sign up for as little as three smackaroonies per month...

PRAIRIE POTHOLE #38: "Jack Daniels', If You Please" | Patreon

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Hey all -- I'll be at A2CAF, the Ann Arbor Comics Art Festival, tomorrow Saturday October 7, from 11am to 5pm, tabling with King-Cat stuff and a small selection of distro titles... Come on by and say hello!

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OUT TODAY! WOW!

New two song "digital 45" from your truly, available on Bandcamp for streaming and download.

Sargasso Serenade was written in Denver in the 90s. I remember playing it in Jon Pinnow's hi-rise condo on Ogden, maybe that's where I wrote it. This was the first song I tried to record on my own in my current home DAW set-up.

Gum Commercial was recorded in Beloit a few years ago, direct to my cellphone. I later added bass overdubs. Steve honked his horn into his computer's mic in Jefferson City, Mo.

Porter then salvaged these poorly recorded traxx at Port Recording TX, et voilà.

Thanks everyone, more to come!

(Also, it's Bandcamp Friday, so if you buy a copy today, Bandcamp forgoes their $$ cut!)

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Day Two of my Visiting Artist gig at Beloit College: How to Draw a Tree. All students successfully learned how to draw a tree. 🌲🌳🌴

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New MID-MONTH UPDATE up now at my Patreon page, with notes on back aches and King-Cat 83 progress. This one is FREE for everyone. Thank you for your support! John P. https://www.patreon.com/posts/87744496

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New Boney Island Observer up now at my Patreon site: Weed inventory, mailing update, and a poem...

As little as $3/mo gets you instant access to all exclusive online posts, comics, essays, reviews etc. Truck on over and check it out... Thank you!

Volume Seven, Number Six: June 2, 2023 | Patreon

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BRAND STINKIN' NEW PRAIRIE POTHOLE #36: Pre-Teen Alienation, garment stylee, in: "AC/DC Tee Shirt"

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Mailchimp is down, so I'm turning to our Beloved Tumblr...

Lots of sale books and warehouse finds up at the Spit and a Half distro site -- including a bunch of hard-to-find Koyama Press books etc!

www.spitandahalf.com

RESTOCKS: Shary FLENNIKEN: Trots and Bonnie HC - $40 Hartley LIN: Young Frances HC - $20 Josh SIMMONS: Ghouls #0 - $0.50 Josh SIMMONS: Ghouls #1 - $1 Josh SIMMONS: Ghouls #2 - $2 Noah VAN SCIVER: One Dirty Tree - $20

WAREHOUSE FINDS: Lisa CARVER: Money's Nothing - $5 Lisa CARVER: "__________" - $5 Cole CLOSSER: Black Rat - $7.50 Michael DEFORGE: Lose #7 - $5 (2 copies) Pascal GIRARD: Fanny & Romeo - $20 (2 copies) Jesse JACOBS: Safari Honeymoon - $7.50 (1 copy) Seo KIM: Cat Person - $10 Jane MAI: See You Next Tuesday - $6 Max MORRIS: On Transit - $5 (5 copies) Mare ODOMO: Late Bloomer - $10 (3 copies) Ben SEARS: Night Air - $6 Julia WERTZ: Drinking at the Movies (Koyama ed.) - $7.50 (3 copies)

SALE BOOKS: Drew WEING: Set to Sea (PB) - $7.50 (Two copies)

LAST CHANCE (One copy each!): Jessica CAMPBELL: Hot or Not - $5 Anya DAVIDSON: Band for Life - $30 Pascal GIRARD: Nicolas - $17 Simon HANSELMANN: Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam - $20 Akino KONDOH: Nothing Whatsoever Out in the Open - $6 Jason LITTLE: Borb - $20 MARINAOMI: I Thought You Hated Me - $9 Ben MARRA: American Blood - $20 Pascal MATTHEY: Pacal est Enfonce - $8 Pascal MATTHEY: Le Verre de Lait - $8 Steve WEISSMAN: Butter and Blood - $13

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New CRITERION DIARY up now at my Patreon Page... Capsule reviews of Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Meshes of the Afternoon, Il Sorpasso, and Paterson.

$3/mo gets you all excloosive online e-content®

CRITERION DIARY #20: February 19, 2023 | John Porcellino on Patreon

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New Work in Progress post up at Ye Olde Patreon page... the Rat's Nest that is... King-Cat 83.

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MID-MONTH UPDATE: Feb. 17, 2023 | John Porcellino on Patreon

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Cool new stuff at SPIT AND A HALF!!! from Dan Zettwoch, Rotopol Press (in English), Neoglyphic Media, and more! NEW: Nick EDWARDS: It Had to Be You - $10 Shary FLENNIKEN: Trots and Bonnie HC - $40 Stefan GRUBER: Scentagons - $5 Lea HEINRICH: Peacock Island - $5 Matt LOCK: I Don't Belong Here! - $5 Leoni SADLER: Terminal Discount - $5 Robert SERGEL: Bald Knobbers - $16 Mikkel SOMMER/Anna RAKHMANKO: Strannik - $15 Amanda VAHAMAKI: Pixie Lice - $5 VARIOUS: Primitives (Israeli Anthology) - $30 Thomas WELLMANN: Pimo and Rex- Interdimensional Wedding - $21 Dan ZETTWOCH: Tel-Tales #1 - $5 Dan ZETTWOCH: Tel-Tales #2 - $8 Dan ZETTWOCH: Redbird #3 - $5 Dan ZETTWOCH: Redbird #5 - $5 Dan ZETTWOCH: Redbird #6 - $5 RESTOCKS: David COLLIER: Winter of Our Pandemic - $20 Kevin HUIZENGA: Wild Kingdom - $20 Tim LANE: Toybox Americana - $35 Hartley LIN: Young Frances HC - $20 Orion MARTIN: Lianhuanhua: China's Underground Comics - $8 Liz VALASCO - Pleasant Nightmares - $5 VARIOUS: Too Tough To Die (Aging Punx Anthology) - $20 WAREHOUSE FINDS: Keren Katz, ed.: Misdeeds (Israeli Anthology) - $12 (1 copy) Pierre MAUREL: Blackbird - $17 (one copy) ONESIES: Julia KLUGE: To Be a Brave Scout - $11 (one copy) Charles FORSMAN: TEOTFW - $20 (one copy) www.spitandahalf.com

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Have Mercy: John rides the bus with the "big kids" in the latest PRAIRIE POTHOLE webcomeek -- excloosive to Patreon supporters!

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PRAIRIE POTHOLE #35: "Led Zep Bus" | John Porcellino on Patreon