The same goes for older compatriots such as Kerry James Marshall, Chitra Ganesh, Mike Kelley, Seth Price, Raymond Pettibon, Karen Kilimnik. It’s a language I feel instantly both close to and critical of. Jamian Juliano-Vilanni, Bunny Rogers, Jordan Wolfson, Meriem Bennani come to mind. My peers grew up on similar diets and I see it in the artwork they make now, as relative adults. Now I find myself rewatching Rick and Morty episodes as I listen to fireworks and police helicopters overhead. And when I was too heartbroken or high to sleep in college, I’d perch Archer on my stomach like an otter. I picked my nose through a childhood of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. The Jetsons and The Flintstones were my pacifier. I used to claim Krazy Kat author George Herriman as my kin but there is no relation other than my lifelong love of fibbing and of cartoons, especially his. I have never thrown a rectangular projectile at a lover, but, I have lied to them. Krazy won’t be dissuaded by their differences. In particular, the panel where Ignatz Mouse hits Krazy, his unrequited lover, on the head with a brick. I’ve dated two guys with Krazy Kat tattoos.
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