Sunshine this morning feels about 28 million light-years from our planet Ergo we dream of Pierre Mechain or Charles Messier. Also, William Herschel- galaxies a list of objects /that are not comets/ in the sky sombrero: swirling into what is almost certainly a massive black hole.
We come back to ourselves again and again and again and again we know it as kids, remember it as adults then come back up and down the thread hangs.
For Paty In my language, cog rattle, noisemaker, ratchet: Signal to noise Arabic: from مَطْرَق maṭraq stick, hammer, chatterbox to knock, bang, strike. Aramaic: from טרק to hit, sting, bite, close a door, mix. Talmud: pakia? What is a madra? Rav Papa says: An Arabian whip whose end is split. Suena la matraca noisy, fun, old. Every sound comes from somewhere else. What fortunes will the racket bring?
W e are halfway through January already, but I am only beginning to gather energy to restart again. Over the years this blog as been many things, at points becoming merely some kind of listing of things I have done (but never all). Here I’d like to reflect on what could be done differently, here, and elsewhere.
It’s been a while since I translated a poem. One morning while doing something else, you randomly take a book from the shelves, open it and find a poem that speaks to you, and calls you to translate it, in order to share it with others who also share your mother tongue.
H appy publication day to The Lockdown Chronicles ! Get your copy NOW! (Please? Links open in new tabs). With a preface by Martin Paul Eve; design by Francisco de la Mora. “Ernesto Priego’s Lockdown Chronicles are great. And if you make comics, an object lesson in what you can do with four panels. “ – Katy Whitaker Read an interview with me about creating the chronicles here.
P addy Johnston interviewed me for the Good Comics blog on the creative process behind my new comic, The Lockdown Chronicles. A Comic Strip Quarantine . You can read the interview here. You can pre-order the book now! The online book launch is on the 2nd of November at 7PM UK time. You are all invited .
Today! Our Comics Grid Webinar as part of International Open Access Week 2021. Date: Tuesday 26 October 2021. Time: 4-5pm BST. Check your timezone here. Registration: Free. Please register here. To join the webinar: We recommend that attendees use Chrome to join. Collaborate works better if Google Chrome is used.
I am pleased to share that my new book, The Lockdown Chronicles.
T his year’s International Open Access Week runs from 25 th – 31 st October 2021, and the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has organised an OLH Editors Workshop.
