Announcing: THE BUREAU!

Very pleased to begin daily postings, Monday through Friday, of an album I've been working on for around four years, titled "THE BUREAU". The idea behind the album is it's a full working day at a job, meaning when it is complete, there will be around nine hours of music - sufficiently filling an entire day of work with electronic noise. Each moment of a day is timed to a track of music along with a custom comics panel. I'll be drawing panels every day throughout the year to complete the album.

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Read on for other news on The Realist Archive (now available in PDF), our talk in Parsons NYC, Washington Post on John Wilcock, as well as its inclusion in Best American Comics 2017, and enjoy the music from The Bureau below. Cheers, Ethan

FOUR FULL ALBUMS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

LISTEN TO ALL AVAILABLE BUREAU TRACKS

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February 2017 - New issue of Comics with Problems

Item: New issue of Comics with Problems: YOUTH IN THE GHETTO!

This is an amazing item that we've been seeking a copy of for years. And lucky you, here's a chance to view the most pristine copy known to exist. Typically found in tatters or incomplete, Youth In the Ghetto was a one-shot comic book distributed by Haryou (Harlem Youth Unlimited) in the 1960s as a comic book version of their report on youth in the city. It's pretty amazing. After a multi-year effort, we found a copy and scanned/restored it - View the entire document here. Like a number of comics that are used for academic achievement on this site, this qualifies as an instant do-it-yourself thesis reference; heck it might even get you tenure. (You'll see the wealth of references within that can branch to other study, as well)

Postscript:

Interesting write up from @bleedingcool on our recent Comics w/Problems post of the mega rare YOUTH IN THE GHETTO comic (full scans here: https://t.co/QKXsSBX63P) Bleeding Cool states @neiltyson's father is the author. Info: https://t.co/Fgw5NxMBRT — Neil you might enjoy the art.

— Ethan Persoff (@EthanPersoff) March 27, 2018

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January 24 2017 - A few press items and other materials

Our talk at Parsons School of Design at the New School

Returned from New York in November, after speaking at the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium on November 7th. I love that city. The night was a lot of fun, in a two hour talk that detailed Comics with Problems, The Realist archive, and the John Wilcock comic. I'll post photos or video soon, as it was recorded for their spoken history project on cartoonists and their work. Thank you genuinely to all that came out for the talk. Local hero (and genius/hero of mine) Robert Sikoryak was in attendance and captured some terrific sketches of the event. See all four pages of Sikoryak's wonderful sketches here. (They actually capture the mood and sequence of the presentation, in full)

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Item: THE REALIST NOW IN Text-Searchable PDF FORMAT

Our thanks go out to Jason Witherspoon, who has provided The Realist Archive a set of text searchable PDFs of each issue. This vastly improves the searchability and usefulness of the archive itself. It's presently on me to add the PDFs in, and I'm doing so in order, from 1 til 146. You can presently access PDFs on the first seven issues (Begin with issue number one) I'm taking this opportunity to also add a 'Next Issue' and 'Previous Issue' button to each issue, which will allow scanning through the set much easier, as well. Our thanks to Jason for such impressive work on this. All issues will be set up with PDFs soon.

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Item: BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2017

Very happy to mention the John Wilcock comic has been included in this year's BEST AMERICAN COMICS (amazon link) — Reviewing the volume, the Washington Post commented that Wilcock is "A deftly presented bio-comic that illuminates New York’s underground press movement at midcentury." (link) - Much appreciated, thank you.