New zines: Not-knowing and Complexity
I can’t stop making zines! Issues #6 and #7 of my Deleted Zines from Don’t Call It Art are available for free in today’s newsletter.
Don’t call it a book tour!
I’m doing a very limited number of events to promote the release of my new book Don’t Call It Art.
Monday, June 1 in Austin, Texas: BookPeople, 6PM. Details here.
Wednesday, June 3 in Nashville, Tennessee: Parnassus Books, 6:30PM. Free event, but registration required. RSVP here.
Monday, June 8 in Cleveland, Ohio: Cuyahoga County Public Library, Parma-Snow Branch, 7PM. Free event, VIP tickets available. Details here.
If you have questions about any of the events, please contact the hosts through the events page.
Preorder goodies!
Preorder your copy of Don’t Call It Art and complete this form to download a PDF that includes:
- A personal note from me
- 5 mini posters
- 5 zines with bonus material and extra book chapters
- 1 playlist of all the musicians mentioned in the book, plus a J-card if you’re feeling inspired to make your own cassette tape!
If you’ve already preordered, no problem! Just fill out this form and you’ll have access to the bonus material.
I like kid’s work more than work by real artists
I used this drawing by Jules (age 3 or 4 at the time) in my latest letter, “How I get into something new.”
One reader said, “I LOVE Jules’ drawing! That overshadowed everything I just read!”
The comment made me laugh, because that really was the first impulse for what became Don’t Call It Art, all those years ago: I just felt like what the kids was doing was so much more interesting than anything I was doing.
Jean Michel Basquiat once said in an interview, “I like kids’ work more than work by real artists any day.”
(That quote is in chapter 8.)
Sometimes I really can’t stand waiting on a book to be released into the world. Lingering in The Gulp.
