For Peter
He taught me many truths, but there was one lie I carried for years after leaving his class.
Lucy Bellwood
The online home of Adventure Cartoonist Lucy Bellwood
Latest posts
New Comic: The Scale of a Man
"Whether framing the hull of a ship or the panels of a story, we delineate the things we love. It is an affection that cannot be rushed."
2025 in Reading
"Left to its own devices, the path of reading strays all over the place."
2024 in Reading
Everything I read in 2024, a whopping year late.
Making Nonfiction Comics Event in Ojai
Come celebrate the publication of "Making Nonfiction Comics," a comprehensive illustrated guide for everyone who’s ever wanted to tell stories about the world around us in words and pictures.
Hyde and Eroticism
I wonder about this post-70s literary landscape: everything still reverberating with the energy of the 60s, the explosive visibility of sexuality in American youth culture, the rising tide of queer voices—but also the broader definition of eroticism.
Sing It Loud
Filter by: Less Danceable
Maximum Melville
Four days in the whale facts firehose.
Measurement/Metric
"It is maybe not functionally possible to design social networked technology geared towards listening."
Elsewhere
I feel the answer to your question will always exist outside the world as it presents itself, beyond the matters of the day, distinct from the temporal. It will be found within the mysterious, the unsettled, and the sacred, that faraway and intangible place where truth and music and your father reside. — The Red Continue reading Elsewhere