Nick Hanover, a writer for the website Comics Bulletin, has put together a list of Top Ten Breakup Comics in the wake of a breakup of his own- and my maiden opus David Chelsea In Love (recently certified a “minor landmark” by the Onion A/V Club) charts at #9! Other titles include such classics of romantic misery as Paying For It by Chester Brown, Blankets by Craig Thompson and Black Hole by Charles Burns. Read the full list here.

I hope you’re feeling better soon, Nick.

David Chelsea is reading:
The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures
by Caroline Preston

Trading Card from Blockbusters Of Rhythm & Blues set, 1994

David Chelsea is listening to:
Bossypants
by Tina Fey

Trading Card from Blockbusters Of Rhythm & Blues set, 1994

David Chelsea is reading:
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings

Kim Jong Il with George W. Bush, INX illustration, 2003

David Chelsea is reading:
The Death-Ray
by Daniel Clowes

Hitchens with Rabbi Schmuly Boteach, illustration for New York Observer, 2008.

David Chelsea is reading:
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by David Bellos

WHAT did you say your name was?

My first graphic novel David Chelsea In Love made it into the the Onion’s A.V. Club autobiographical comics primer this week, along with such heavyweights as R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Harvey Pekar and Will Eisner. Since the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, I am on balanced pleased  to be included, even though what’s written is hardly an unqualified rave and even though the writer (one Sam Adams, presumably not the mayor or the beer) got the name of my main female character wrong (for future reference, it’s “Minnie” not “Millie”). Here’s the relevant section:

David Chelsea is listening to:
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food
by Adam Gopnik

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I had a fine time at the opening of the Welcome To My World exhibit last night. Many thanks to Laura Russell and everyone at 23 Sandy Gallery, my fellow artists, and all the people who came.

David Chelsea is watching:
Pirates of Silicon Valley

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Rebecca's Room on a globe

I am rerunning a blog post about one of my spherical paintings from 2009, because it is in the show WELCOME TO MY WORLD, opening this Friday at 23 Sandy Gallery here in Portland:

David Chelsea is reading:
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
by Charles J. Shields

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I am in a show opening this Friday at Portland’s 23 Sandy Gallery, WELCOME TO MY WORLD, along with other area artists Mary Bennett, Allison Bruns, Chandra Cerrito, Susan Collard, Anna & Leo Daedalus with Samuel Miller, Kerry Davis, Tamara English, Adrianne Feldstein & Sonja Sujo, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Laura LeHew, David Meeker, Bonnie Meltzer, Cynthia Nawalinski, Jim Neidhardt, Jane Schiffhauer, Joanna Thomas, Robert Tomlinson and Renee Zangara. I quote from the catalogue on the gallery website:

“A stellar list of area artists were invited to consider a similar, unusual, three-dimensional object as canvas—a vintage world globe. This invitational exhibition was conceived and co-curated by new-to-Portland artist, Robert Tomlinson and is co-curated and hosted by 23 Sandy Gallery. The artists were asked to transform, build, infuse, reduce or reinvent the globe using the expressive power of cartography, exploring the form of the globe to create a compelling new work of art.”

David Chelsea is listening to:
Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell

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A reader known only as “John” writes in with a somewhat technical question:

Hi, is there a method to measure the degree of an ellipse? I know I can buy an ellipse template, but is there a way to do it without one?

David Chelsea is reading:
Habibi
by Craig Thompson

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