A NEW BOOK https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-abel/brain-damage/paperback/product-nvq9e7q.html?q=j.+daniel+abel&page=1&pageSize=4 There was a...

Old Highway 80 is a crumbling a back road now, and it was worse back in the day. It was one of only two semi-paved routes from the east...

Sid Vicious freeing himself from the oppressive tyranny of acquiring a skill, (like it was ever his problem). It’s getting very hard  to...

Capitalism is sort of like that glad-handing yuppie supervisor at work. Loud mouth, big smile, greedy and not too bright, with a barely...

One breathless argument for the inevitable world domination of AI in creative art goes like this - People who possess no analog skill, or...

Like the typewriter mechanic, the milkman, the paste-up boy or the dog-whipper, I am coming to terms with losing my job forever, an early...

My most recent graphic novel “WALKABOUT” does not inform space monsters from the 4th dimension, female warriors with big boobs in...

The new great American dream, for a lot of us anyway, is to get the hell out of America before the landlord doubles the rent, again, ...

Ashley Holt, mild mannered ex-librarian of a great metropolitan university, is fighting a never ending battle to explain himself and his...

INTRODUCTION - My first encounter with the esteemed Mr. Holt was as a fellow nomad, wandering Facebook’s great digital wasteland between...

My brief but intense romance with the American museum establishment began in 2013 and ended in 2014. It has been 10 years since one or...

“When machines can do everything you will see a generation of idiots” Einstein The media pimps did a little more crank last week and...

I’m a collector of old detritus, god help me, a complete set of 1963 MAD magazines, a tattered family photograph of uncle Don playing...

J. Daniel Abel - Andy Warhol, 2023 I have often marveled at the shear fecklessness of modern American fame. In 1962, Andy Warhol, an...

It is sobering to think that I am now 2 years older than my dad was when he died. Here he is in 1957, when he hoisted a 3 year old me up...

I’m sort of down on gallery shows these days, and that’s the main reason I went into book publishing. I'm not actually bitter about the...

I knew Rick Geary back in the day, late 1980s. Both of us were grinding out weekly illustrations for the pulps, the San Diego Reader and...

I read a post the other day from a fellow traveler, one professor X, who told me that his millennial art history and graphic design kids...

I have been smitten with Mary K. Brown, from afar, for almost 50 years, ever since High school. When I actually made contact with her,...

The trending debate right now is between analog vs art generated by artificial intelligence. It's actually the end of another debate,...