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Pretty darn calming.
Six year old Miumiu sings “I Wish You Love” Her cover of “Fly Me to the Moon” is beautiful as well.
Latest
The Internet Archives 90s VHS Vault
Have some time to go down a weird internet habit hole? The Internet Archive [https://archive.org/], has for years been archiving VHS tapes and putting online [https://archive.org/details/vhsvault]. On one end of the spectrum there’s this collection of Nickelodeon Commercial Breaks from April 1998 [https:
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A Murder Most Foul
I found this, long, unreleased Bob Dylan song that came out the other day surprisingly affecting.
Incredible Doom #3 - Behind the Scenes
A mammoth collection of every bit of trivia that went into creating Incredible Doom part 3, including a timelapse of the drawing of almost the entire book.
Links for quarantined kids from a children’s librarian.
My girlfriend, a children’s librarian, is working from home as many are. With so many folks at home with their kids, I asked her to share her expertise and curate some particularly good links for kids stuck at home. Here’s her list, pulled from a treasure trove of
Wuthering
Hank Green, talking about his illness on Vlogbrothers for the first time, instilled the first feelings of understanding and stability I’ve had recently.
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NEW COMIC: “Incredible Doom – Eternal September” #1 available to patrons months early.
Incredible Doom: Eternal September #1, the first issue in Season 2, is up for all patrons today, months before its public release. To those of you who are able, thank you so much for supporting independent art. Together we’ll get through this worrying time. In the meantime, have a
Note Pad – Enjoying Simple Apps
Thinking about early 90s computing over the last couple years my comic drawing Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com] has given me a fondness for software that seems restricting, yet is oddly focusing. Software like that these days seems like plain vanilla ice cream. Simple and really good. Which is why
Illustrations
Fascination Station – Designing a bookstore
Several months ago, novelist, comedian, poet, storyteller, and president of Write Bloody Publishing [https://writebloody.com], Derrick Brown [http://www.brownpoetry.com] wrote me with a plan. A friend of his was redesigning a huge building in a small town and wanted to turn it into a collection of shops
Backup Stories
Backup Stories Collection
A panel from “Girls”, a patron exclusive comic.If a you’re a Patreon member at $10 or more you can now read all 70+ pages of members only Incredible Doom comics on one page [https://www.matthewbogart.net/incredible-doom-backup-stories/]. Being able to explore these stories that didn’t fit
Jesse & I were on “Talking To Ghosts”
As I’ve been spending the last couple weeks re-invigorating this blog with a new host, CMS, and other fun features, I’ve come across things that should have been posted here that never were. For example, last October my Incredible Doom collaborator Jesse Holden and I were guests on
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How to Make Custom Comic Slipcases: Cost Breakdown (And What Went Wrong)
After my last comic ended, I made a list of everything I’d always wanted to do in comics but hadn’t. Inspired by Oregon History Comics by Sarah Mirk and Monster Box by Tien Pham & Lark Pien, making a series of pocket-sized books in a cardboard slipcase was