quick sketches/January hate
Friday, January 30th, 2009I’m not changing the style of Fart Party, I just decided to post some of my sketchbook comics. I will probably freak out and take it down or maybe go to the movies and eat a burrito. Here’s a picture of that swing
ps. someone just reminded me that I bitched about last January too. I’m drawing myself in circles over here
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January 30th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Start listening to Bon Iver.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Well, I wouldn’t call it embarrassing, but it felt intimate. I feel uncomfortable with myself now.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Please don’t take it down.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:01 am
You’re regular Fart Party stuff is entertaining and tough and angsty and that’s cool. This comic was interesting and real and really good and that trumps cool in my book. Thanks for sharing. No reason this kind of work cannot stand next to the ‘regular’ Fart Party “style”.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am
I love these. Who doesn’t feel like this in January?
January 30th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I know, right? what the hell is wrong with January? it’s like it got dumped and lost its metro card all on the same day. But that day is a month long.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Dammit, now I’m going to play internet doctor for real. It looks like the Brooklyn botanic garden is free on weekdays through February. I used to hang out at the Lincoln Park conservatory when I lived in Chicago and winter was getting me down. I can’t say it was much less lonely but it’s warm, and not a tiny studio apartment. For what that’s worth.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Ahh, Brooklyn winter. How nice the hopelessness is.
Are you going to do the Hourly Comics? This reminded me of them.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:27 am
January sucks so hard. And ALWAYS. Seriously, I always wonder why I look forward to December/January in Summer. It’s this romantic feeling of snow and hot coco and stuff. And then when it is actually January it bitchslaps me very very hard. Right in the face. So yeah, I feel your pain. And I need a haircut too.
January 30th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Your malaise is sort of romantic when you make it two dimensional. Very quaint.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
This is a visual poem.
One of your best works, IMHO.
So good, it prompted me to post a comment for the first time. I think, given the choice, I’d buy a book of these over a book of your regular comics.
Don’t get me wrong; I love your usual stuff, too. But this is damn close to perfection.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Sometimes folks like the Fartoons, and some folks appreciate the Farticles, too.
Not finishing the books is upsetting.
January 30th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
please don’t take it down
January 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Seriously, I love funny comics, but this really hit me where I live. Very moving and beautiful. Making good art is what loneliness is all about.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Wow, very nicely done. From one book-lover to another, please don’t take it down.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
don’t take them down! the are beeeoooteeful! AMAZING! Eat a burrito! Really impressed.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
It’s fun to indulge in melancholy sometimes.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I really liked it too. Felt Harvey Pekar-esque.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
crazy!! that you don’t have a mirror in your apartment!!
and I agree with lauren’s statement.
January 30th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Empathy rang through me! It’s very nice Julia ~ fine work.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I like this.
January 30th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I really love this one.
And I think that the contrast between this and your normal comics is part of what gives it such a strong impact.
It’s melancholy, but in an almost peaceful way.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
This is cool.
January in Chicago sucks hard too. I try to convince myself that there’s nothing wrong with being a complete hermit.
It also occurred to me that maybe I don’t have seasonal depression, maybe everybody else around me does, and being around them just makes me depressed. Then I remembered that I haven’t been around anybody all month, so I guess I’m pretty much just boned.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
How melancholy!
January 30th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
cool, i aint tha only one either. it’s just the winter time. it’s the same shit here. mmmm…pee bee and jay.
January 30th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Beautiful post. I’d like to see more like this from time to time.
January 30th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
this sounds eerily familiar…
January 30th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I like the ladder bookshelf idea. I’ve never seen anyone do that.
January 31st, 2009 at 12:11 am
It’s a wonder you’re not involved with this: http://www.826nyc.org/about/contact/
January 31st, 2009 at 12:30 am
LSD is always good for loneliness, or killing Hookers, that one works too
January 31st, 2009 at 2:28 am
I’m intrigued by this hair clip situation.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:34 am
Jesus, this has been the worst January in the history of bad Januaries.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:36 am
I would be able to empathize if I wasn’t listening to so much drowning pool, but good comic nonetheless.
January 31st, 2009 at 10:27 am
I don’t know who this other Alison is, but I’m changing my comment name.
I love these comics, it’s a nice change. Particularly in January.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:54 am
Hmm quietly powerful deep angst comic - I didn’t realise until later after I’d drawn mine- but I think your mood rubbed off on me.
January 31st, 2009 at 3:48 pm
i really like this.. it just proves (again) how much range you have as an artist.. not everything has to be funny
January 31st, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Somebody needs a puppy. Maybe you can find one of those on the street as well.
I’m like to think that you’re not alone in your January doldrums. Pretty much everyone rues it. Unless you’re some kind of up-and-coming hipster filmmaker and you got your film into Sundance or something like that.
Even movies that take place during winter are pretty much depressing as a general rule. This week I watched ‘Fargo’, ‘Nobody’s Fool’ with Paul Newman, ‘The Human Stain’, and ‘Winter Passing’. This was not on purpose, but as “good” as they were they all made me want to run away and join the French Foreign Legion afterward. Winter just does that.
January 31st, 2009 at 5:46 pm
January blahs. My cure: the tanning salon. The artificial rays will nourish your mind, body, and soul, and you will look like you’ve been to Mexico. Skin cancer, you say? You’ve got to give a little to get a little.
January 31st, 2009 at 7:25 pm
haha
i got know idea what you whiners are talking about, january rocks! granted, i live in australia and it’s 35+ degrees (celsius) every day down here, ha ha!
i think you all need to toughen up a little, we get winter here too, y’know, but this feels like it’s turning into a bloody japanese suicide site!
harden up, emos!
January 31st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I think that this particular comment is lovely.
(life isn’t funny All the time, is it?)
xo’s
January 31st, 2009 at 10:18 pm
the tanning salon? hahaha oh man that’s funny on so many levels. 1. because I actually hate tans, I mean, who the fuck pays to look like an orange and 2. I”m content with the whole pallor of death thing I’ve got going on and also, why would anyone want to look like they’ve been to mexico? i’m not on spring break or in high school. but I could use some OTC vicodin.
January 31st, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Julia, you may not like tans, but I have to say, you looked great in that old pic where you were going out, in the skirt and all and you were quite lovely tanned.
February 1st, 2009 at 1:15 am
Is it legal to mail vicodin? I just got my wisdom teeth removed, so I have tons. Feh, tans! NOTHING is worth skin cancers. It warms my heart knowing that all those girls who think they’re hot shit now are gonna be wrinkly and cancerous in a few years. White is right!
February 1st, 2009 at 1:17 am
Ha, skin cancers? Oops…
February 1st, 2009 at 4:07 am
“OTC vicodin”
hehehe. I was sitting here for a couple minutes wondering what the fuck OTC meant. Then I remembered you were talking about Mexico, and then thinking back at my own experiences in Mexico I realized you meant Over The Counter. Then I felt stupid because I’ve seen commercials on tv for Claritin OTC. I just never put that together.
But shit, I used to bring back heart meds for my ancient neighbor with no hassle. I even went into a restaurant in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico near Arizona that had a dish by the cash register filled with pills and a little card that said “please take one” They were fucking Viagra. No lie.
February 1st, 2009 at 5:58 am
That is the most amazing story I have ever heard. Ha! I love it.
February 1st, 2009 at 10:08 am
I really like this drawing.
February 1st, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Wow, that’s a really great sketch…I like the departure from the regular content. I would definitely like to see more of this stuff.
February 1st, 2009 at 8:34 pm
this is almost how i feel right now..im under stress trying to find a high school and meanwhile one of the schools i really really like is having finacial problems. But enough of what i feel i think your comics are really awesome this post!(im not saying the other ones are not awesome) i like the hair on panel 7.
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:26 am
Thank you! I especially love how you look in the mirror and expect to look old. I always look forward to your work. Here in AK,the winter months feel very much like this.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 am
for what its worth, a ladder bookshelf is kick ass-awesome-balls
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 am
sad
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
good stuff. I’ve been feeling the exact same way.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
does anyone fart in this world?????????????????????????????????
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
p.s. i love your comment
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 am
this is why i keep coming back to your site, you never know what the next comic will be like. this is full of melancholy but still beautifull.
i gotta say my favourite style is still the quick draw cartoons, but this is fantastic.
February 3rd, 2009 at 8:40 am
I can see this published in a little volume with the rest of your sketchbook comics. Really nice.
February 5th, 2009 at 12:10 am
yeah. First comment here just saying I like it. Nice capture. p.S. I’m writing this from a tanning bed.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
is it wrong to start drinking at 4 pm? by yourself?
February 6th, 2009 at 8:34 am
But Fart-Party-Lady, peanut butter/jelly and pizza rock so hard!
It’s like saying, “I’ll be trapped in a room for 72 hours and all I’ll have to watch is the first nine seasons of The Simpsons.”
February 10th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
I’m with the others: don’t take this down.
Especially as it makes a great double act with this one: http://www.fartparty.org/2009/02/09/life-like-this/
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:26 pm
This is lovely and intimate and serves to remind the rest of us that we are not alone in feeling trapped and poor and lonely.
August 5th, 2009 at 9:59 am
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October 25th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Man, this one takes me right back to when I was writing up my PhD…. strange reclusive days those were.
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