All the Davids

I have noticed that I like a lot of writers called David:


David Hartley
David Markson
David Mitchell
David Shields
David Shrigley
David Vann
David Crystal

As far as I'm aware, other names are available.

Not Chewing Gum

Just read David Shrigley's Red Book. I think it's appropriate to say 'read', I mean it is a collection of cartoons* essentially. It's not the first time I've been Shrigleyfied, but this is the first of his work that I've bought.

I guess there's two things you need to know about it:

1. It deals with a lot of existential angst
2. It is funny

There's also a kind of poetry in there, visual poetry to be specific.

It's good stuff. It encouraged me to get back to cartooning immediately, after so much thinking and not acting. I occasionally look back over my old cartoons. Many of them are cringey, like, totally cringey.

Now I fear much less.




*'Visual art', if you want to be all poncey about it...