Cold Heat Special # 1
Cold Heat Castle Castle
Cold Heat Special # 3
Frank Santoro, Jon Vermilyea, Dash Shaw
God, I could write that all day. Cold Heat Special Cold Heat Castle Castle. Cold are you I will Heat you up it will be Special. Flows off the tongue, onto the keys, liquid, liquid style. Do you smoke? Enough? Cold inside, you could use the Heat of a Special friend, Frank Santoro: he's gonna give it to you, like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
Santoro Claus knows you CAN'T WAIT until the 240 page epic/Tolkein-esque/Proust of the Cold Heat slab of reading drops: Soon! This Year! So, teaming up with Dash Shaw, splitting bills with Jon Vermilyea, and the ever so gracious Picturebox--"What is it? Four sheets of construction paper? Stapled together? For three dollars! For you, Frankie, anything."
They must wear name tags at Picturebox. They have too. All the guys have the same haircut and glasses. They may share pants. We know. WEVE BEEN THERE. These copies came from them in a paper bag that Gary Panter had stamped himself. They have nice haircuts. But they are the SAME haircuts. (We are getting that haircut)
Cold Heat Special # 1: you are printed like a newspaper, you are Jon Vermilyea and you are about a girl/a woman/a young lady--you are about a Heroine, and she will fight these Monsters, and maybe she is fighting for us. Maybe she is fighting for you, Proud American--and she "speaks in a voice that's halfway hopeful." That's a reference, to a book, like a real one. And it's an EASY one.
But naw, she's doing none of those. She's just trying to make it to her home, to get noticed by her father, she's just trying to disconnect from the real world--her real world, full of what it is when you're that age--she's trying to etch out a her own little slipstream behind the trees so she can listen to some Chocolate Sun.
Cold Heat Castle Castle: you are short, you are six pages, or eight, however you judge pages. You are blue and you are pink--you are male and female? You aren't talking much? You are pure that way--pure, unadulterated comic/graphic literature/cartoons/ignition fluid, you are what people want minis to be--all het up, all junk-less, just straight out of brain on to the pages, stapled, and sold. You go inside and it's her again--she's sultrier this time, she's closer to woman and further from the Special # 1 girl. But she's still in love with the Chocolate Gun. You're still you. You are simple--but you are my favorite.
Cold Heat Special # 3: You are long in width, you are Dash Shaw, you are a bus-ride, you are her, again, and this time she suffers. This time we see you different, because you aren't the girl from the newspaper, you aren't the Bond Girl from Castle, you are suffering, and you are scared, and you are getting sick and you have to get off the bus. And we love you for that? No, we are disconnected at first. At first we don't want to see this, and then when we see what's waiting for you--your imagination? Your hallucination? But your pain looks real, your pain looks awful, and we feel it, the guilt over not wanting to rip open the bus door for you, because we saw you and didn't care. We waded through. You lay there and suffer for us, fuck that, you suffered for you and waited and no one came to your side and no one held your hand or brought you home you did it all alone.
We can wait for 240 pages of this. We will be happy to.
-Tucker Stone, 2008
In answer. Yes. The minicomics almost never let you down and offer hope at something... whatever is more than "mini" but... "more than mini", often dissapoints. And costs more. And does not fit in your back pocket.
Posted by: Shannon Smith | 2008.04.02 at 08:20
Can't we all just have some fun?
Posted by: Frank Santoro | 2008.04.02 at 13:31
But maybe the strongest feeling that news of a new Britney Spears sex tape has inspired is a sensation of thundering resignation. Seeing Britney Spears have it off on the internet has been inevitable for years now. Remember when it was claimed that Kevin Federline was trying to sell a Britney Spears sex tape that mainly featured them playing chess? And that guy who said he filmed himself having sex with Britney Spears on holiday in June?
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