Attempted Assassination of Nancy Pelosi

A guy who was radicalized by Gamergate (seriously, I'm not exaggerating here) broke into Nancy Pelosi's house. She wasn't there so he ran around screaming "where's Nancy" (a cry used by rioters looking for her on Jan 6th when they invaded the capital), and hit her husband Paul in the head with a hammer, fracturing his skull. She's alive because she wasn't home.

Right now, if you do a search on google for "Nancy Pelosi" you have to scroll down quite a bit to get to a news story about this alarming, important event. The NY Times published it BELOW THE FOLD on the front page of their physical newspaper.

Stories reveal that the officers saw a guy with a hammer wrestling with an old man and yelled at him to drop the weapon. The man then swung the hammer down into Paul Pelosi's head, at which point the cops rushed in to tackle him.

There isn't much coverage in general, the day after the attack, and much of it is liberally studded with "rise in violent crime" and "defunded police" gibberish. One article mentions a former DUI, like that's relevant to what happened, to an old man being attacked by someone who wanted to murder his wife because she's a politician.

It's weird and violent and frustrating and violent and scary and violent.

"Chivalry" by Gaiman and Doran

I (finally) read "Chivalry," the short story written by Neil Gaiman and translated to comic form by the incredible Colleen Doran.

I was reading it, absolutely loving it, but the whole time I thought about how incredibly familiar the art is... like I've read it before. Like it's existed for years. I wondered if maybe I'd seen design sketches... I follow her on twitter and she often shares works in progress, old works, new works. All kinds of stuff! She's absolutely an artist I'd love to buy original art from. So I just assumed that I'd seen it before.

And then I read the epilogue and she talked about her original attempts at translating the story to comic and they are... incredibly different from what ultimately was published. So... I don't know! But it seems so very familiar, comfortably familiar.

The most interesting thing about the epilogue is she talked about the physical process of creating the art, the materials she used, and some of the watercolors and inks are slightly iridescent. That doesn't show up in a scan of the material. It isn't printed on the page. The only way to see it is to look at the actual physical pages.

Anyone who owns/sees the original pages will see something that nobody else has seen. That is fantastic. That is amazing. I love it.

I love Colleen Doran so much.