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Seth Godin: “You need to make art.”

11.25.2012

Seth has a new book coming out at the end of the year. It’s called The Icarus Deception. It’s what I’ll be giving everyone for their birthday next year. (Sorry to ruin the surprise.)

I took part in his fantastic and educational Kickstarter effort to support the publishing of this brave, new book, so I’ve got a preview of the book this weekend. It’s about a subject close to my heart, how everyone needs to make art. (In order to be more fully human, in my opinion. In order to fulfill your potential, in Seth’s.)

Here’s a quotation that made my heart flutter, so I had to share…

This is about doing work that is personal, that requires guts, and that has the potential to change everything. Art is the act of a human being, doing generous work, creating something for the first time, touching another person.

This is a book about why each of us should make art. Why it’s worth the price. And why we can’t wait.”

Filed Under: books, Stories from the War Tagged With: Seth

Jeff Lemire’s favorite comics of the year

01.02.2010

Jeff Lemire, creator of the fantastically melancholy Essex County dropped a list of his faves for ’09. If you can’t trust a comic auteur of his skill, you can’t trust anybody for this.

(Relevant question: Can you name a great artist in any medium who has/had horrible taste in art from that same medium?)

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: Jeff Lemire, Seth

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