Links, a video, and Validus!

• I’ve been meaning to link to K Thor Jensen’s upcoming Red Eye, Black Eye for a while now. It looks to be a witty, insightful autobiographical piece that manages to avoid the pitfalls of the genre. Plus: Jensen’s one of “us,” so I’m always about showing some love.

• I somehow stumbled across Niki Smith’s site and really like her sequential work. I hope to see more from her in the future.
• Wizard interviewed Howard Chaykin and managed to talk about Gil Kane instead of “Hey, so you like drawing big titties, huh?”
• Dennis The Menace meets Fight Club: Part One | Part Two
• Panel One is Alexander Danner’s experiment with the conventions of the medium. It’s funnier than it sounds.
• I got copies of American Splendor #s3 and 4 from DC a couple of weeks ago and haven’t reviewed them. Thankfully, Tom Spurgeon did.
• John Porcellino’s 10 Records That Changed His Life.
• Commentor Sausaletus Rex wrote a damned good piece on the Sunk Cost fallacy and how it applies to creative people. He goes into detail, but the gist is thus: writers, artists, editors – cut your losses when you can.
• 33 minutes of Charles Mingus playing for French TV.
• I am totally jealous of this Royal Tenenbaums sketchbook. I’ve half-considered starting a Pet Shop Boys one a few times, just because I’d love something different from artists I like.
• Chris Yates’s photostrips are always pretty funny, but this poker one from his archives had me LOLing and OMGing. OK, maybe not the latter.
• I love Jen Wang’s drawings of Airline Safety Instructions as Dance Moves. I love them fiercely.

Here’s David Blaine screwing with people. Yes, it’s a spoof. No, it’s probably NSFW when it comes to language used.

Remember to participate in the Validus is always flipping out event so you can have your own Photoshop/MS Paint/Illustrator/etc creation on this page, Sunday! Here’s two more I whipped up: