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Still the best

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ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980)

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12/14/22: It’s Shirley’s birthday today! She would have been 106. 

Excerpted portraits from a comic I wrote that the great Michael Fahy illustrated: “Notes on 4 Shirley Jackson Archetypes” from my 2016 tribute book THE SHIRLEY JACKSON PROJECT: COMICS INSPIRED BY HER WORK AND LIFE - still available from Ninth Art Press and you know want to get this one - it may well be your cup of stars.

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People who relate to this little memory are my pals.

“Cemetery Boy,” a 2004 collab w/ the great GB Jones, originally appeared in Boy Trouble #5. 

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First review of Marry Me a Little is in (from the venerable Publisher’s Weekly), and it’s pretty sweet. 

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My book! A reminder! Feb ‘23! Available for preorder now! Link in Bio! Thank you! (Bows, exits stage) #graphicmemoir #queercomics #lgbtq🌈 #marriageequality #gaycomics #queermen #autobiocomics https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck3V0tGLJSz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Coming in Feb 2023, available for pre-order now at your favorite bookseller (here’s one of mine)

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The first 4 panels of a 1997 comic that originally ran in the New York Press for their holiday gift guide. You can read the rest on my Patreon for free (the panels won’t fit into Instagram’s format). Happy holidays! whatever that may mean for you! xo #lgbtq🌈 #queercomics #xmas #1997 #newyorkchristmas #holidaymelancholy https://www.instagram.com/p/CI6ngpkDxt7/?igshid=tusdi5ebcbbz

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More panels from my in-progress graphic novel Marry Me a Little. Bottom line: all the legal nuts and bolts of gettin’ hitched aren’t so romantic.

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This is the kind of very serious artistic content you can see if you subscribe to my Patreon for as little as a buck a month (link in bio) #pose #patreon #queercomics #autobiocomics #billyporter #categoryis #gaycomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CDT1adjD8zM/?igshid=iqp5xv3v1k5i

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Happy Virtual Pride month!

From 2001: Punk v. Pride, Nihilism v. Earnestness 

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Last one! For this episode I remembered: you cannot be a true autobiographical cartoonist until you draw yourself on the toilet (you also have to draw yourself vomiting. It’s true! That way you can point to being “authentic”). Anyway, It’s been fun, thanks to everyone for reading! Stay well 💕#cartoonists #diarycomic #covidcomics #autobiocomics #anxietycomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CAfcRifDLcP/?igshid=10amctva1o2id

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Ep 4 of my week’s stint on the comics journal is up today, and in it I get a fateful text message #cartoonists #diarycomic #covidcomics #autobiocomics #anxietycomics #furloughlife https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdaEH4DzIv/?igshid=xsw9yuzto6nu

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Excerpt from day 3 of my diary comics that are posting daily all this week on the Comics Journal: that 1pm magic! #cartoonists #diarycomic #covidcomics #autobiocomics #anxietycomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CAavv3sjQh8/?igshid=18sa4be7a4hig

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Excerpt from the 2nd day of my Cartoonist Diary stint on tcj this week (link in bio). Bonus points for anyone who can guess what movie I’m watching here. #cartoonists #diarycomic #covidcomics #autobiocomics #anxietycomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CAX-_xpjzeM/?igshid=5dhbaml2xbpa

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Hey! I’m this week’s Cartoonist Diary ahtist on The Comics Journal! So that means you can read a new installment every day from now through Friday—a good deal, amirite? You betcha. #cartoonists #diarycomics #covidcomics #autobiocomics #anxietycomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CAVbWhvDZEw/?igshid=g3dvrd56k0az

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Finally finished my week o’ #diarycomics comics with that Very Special #covid19 theme running underneath everything (you know, like a virus). Coming soon (well I think soon) to a website near you (more deets later) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ydLoljs1k/?igshid=xheb58o9gj3e