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Oct.11.2012
New essay

Read my new essay on Sex & the City at Vivid Scribe!

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Jun.16.2013 - 4:24 am
Seeing things with crystal anniversary clarity
So, what do you do when you write something 15 years ago, post it online when the internet is just starting up and people were still wondering whether they should call it the...
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Oct.11.2012 - 8:13 pm
Learning a Foreign Language: Esperanto
Five foreign languages have I learned in my time, to varying levels of fluency. The first was German, at high school and later at a college in Germany. Then came Korean, because I...
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Oct.10.2012 - 7:34 pm
Pete Townshend's Psychoderelict: The Graphic Novel
Renowned rock star Pete Townshend has just published his autobiography, Who I Am, a book which he has dedicated to 'the artist inside all of us.' In Pete's autobiography you...
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Oct.04.2012 - 3:31 am
Metamodern Musicals
My colleague Kate Krake, of vividscribe.com, wrote an essay on the topic of metamodern movie musicals, for example, High Fidelity.* I illustrated it as a comic and it is now...
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Comments from J

Aug.04.2011 - 5:44 pm
In response to: Did Hitler Help Inspire the Vegetarian/Spiritual Movement that Gained Strength in the 1960's?
Relax,
vegetarianism long predates the 30s. Hitler was a vegetarian, but it wasn't part of Nazism. They did have firm ideas...
Aug.02.2011 - 5:25 pm
In response to: Worst Sentence In 2011
Nice
That sentence had a bit of a turbine-like effect on my own thoughts.
Aug.01.2011 - 10:10 pm
In response to: Our Comic Book Culture
A good post, which I found by searching for 'comics'!
I have come to a similar conclusion about creative pursuits recently. Broadly there are two kinds. One kind serves to...
May.17.2011 - 5:46 am
In response to: Owning Your Creative Past
What's that thing they say
What's that thing they say about inner critics? Nobody ever built a statue of one. Embarrassed to be a writer? Well,...
Mar.21.2011 - 2:25 am
In response to: My Immigration Story, continued... the UK
I agree with your
I agree with your sentiments. It's the same for us in Australia. I once looked into getting a job at Buckingham Palace...

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Article: Socio-Political Themes in the Smurfs

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Jan.12.2013
All You Bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge!
Published by Sydney Morning Herald
"...thought-provoking, contemplative, and exploring the narrative and visual possibilities of his medium."
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About J

J Marc Schmidt is the creator of many graphic novels including Egg Story and All You bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge, a book of essays, and an ESL textbook. His work has been published in several languages. The J stands for Jonathon. e-mail me at j_marc_s...
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