For months I have been promising that readers outside the UK could buy Solver volume 1 at Topatoco; the first shipment I sent was destroyed in transit so I have been waiting on a reprint to send more. Anyway, they have now arrived safely and are on sale. I’ve also added Circus Windows. Be warned: the print runs are not huge.
[If you’re in the UK, Solver volume 1 is still in stock at Page 45, and they have Circus Windows too. I’m just in the process of restocking UK shops so keep checking back.]
Apparently the RSS feed has stopped updating on some services – Feedly, Newsblur – meaning some people are missing updates. This happened last year and nothing I did or that anyone suggested remedied it. In the end, it got better all on its own. Sometimes these blog posts will appear on Feedly etc when comic updates don’t, so if it does, updates are M-W-F unless I explicitly say otherwise. Sorry for the break in service. Nothing has changed at my end!
Here, for you, same as every year, my albums of the year. I thought it was a good year, lots to listen to and enjoy. Of course, time will tell if these releases live long in the memory. It’s funny when I look back at old lists and see which long players stayed in rotation.
Here’s a Spotify playlist with a song from each (with the exception of two that weren’t on Spotify, so I have put a song from #41 and #42 on to make up the numbers).
1 IMAGINAL DISK – Magdalena Bay 2 RONG WEICKNES – Fievel Is Glauque 3 NIGHT PALACE – Mount Eerie 4 CHARM – Clairo 5 WORLD OF WORK – Clarissa Connelly 6 BELOW A MASSIVE DARK LAND – Naima Bock 7 PAINT A ROOM – Chris Cohen 8 PAUL BUNYAN’S SLINGSHOT – Liquid Mike 9 THE PILGRIM, THEIR GOD, AND THE KING OF MY DECREPIT MOUNTAIN – Tapir 10 PEGASUS – Sex On Toast
11 DOGGIE PADDLIN’ THRU THE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS – Psychic Temple 12 LOOPHOLE – Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band 13 MANNING FIREWORKS – MJ Lenderman 14 LIMITS OF LANGUAGE – Field Music 15 ONE MORE AGAIN – Dylan Moon 16 WEIRD ROOMS – The Black Watch 17 HERE IN THE PITCH – Jessica Pratt 18 LATE SLAP – Dana Gavanski 19 BOX FOR BUDDY, BOX FOR STAR – This Is Lorelai 20 WHO’S A GOOD BOY – Bory
21 MALAGROTTA – Augie March 22 A DREAM IS ALL WE KNOW – Lemon Twigs 23 SCHEDULED EXPLOSIONS – 2nd Grade 24 THE OPTIMISTIC WRENCH EP – UV-TV 25 GRAVITY STAIRS – Crowded House 26 SEED OF A SEED – Haley Heynderickx 27 SOUVENIR – Omni 28 HEX – Jon McKiel 29 IMAGINARY FRIENDS – The Junipers 30 FOR EVERY SET OF EYES – J. Mamana
31 LA FLEUR – Kelly Stoltz 32 DIAMOND JUBILEE – Cindy Lee 33 ETHEREAL ESSENCE – Cornelius 34 EELS – Being Dead 35 MY LIGHT, MY DESTROYER – Cassandra Jenkins 36 HOWL – Daisy Rickman 37 BIG FOR YOU – Zsela 38 TAPED OVER EP – Novelty Island 39 INFINITE SKY EP – Twen 40 CATCHING CHICKENS EP – Nourished By Time
Issue 1 of a new 4-part limited series (with me writing and Max Sarin drawing) is out from Dark Horse in April 2025. It’s a follow-up to Great British Bump-Off called KILL OR BE QUILT.
I’ll have further details in the new year, but here is the cover to the first issue, and the variant cover for #1 by Lissa Treiman. Read more about it at CBR.
