Always fascinating when people who work in other under-appreciated art forms reveal that they too sit down to a desk to think, plan, and execute their vision in the manner of a cartoonist. This snippet is from The Education of a Gardener, memoir of master landscape architect Russel Page.

My bio in two images.

Land of the Dead solo comic. Copies still available at rimkicomix.bigcartel.com

The Kakimori brass nib: shaped like a bullet with slits along the edges, its reservoir holds a considerable amount of liquid. You dip it in your ink and then may vary the width of your line on the page depending on your surface angle.

Portrait of life with a cell phone, or, being psychically tethered at all times to a television, newspaper, telephone, typewriter, and stereo system.

A jam image to accompany a fanzine interview I did with Daniel Clowes back when I was a teenager. At the time he was just about to publish his classic story Caricature and seemed a bit nervous about how it would be received. #clowes #comix

Sea of the Dead, 2024.

Nib Rot #1 concludes with RIMKI’s “The Coward of Ghent,” a crime story of paranoia and murder.

Nib Rot #1 then spotlights “Old Pillsbury Mills” by William Crook, Jr., a series of glorious pen and ink drawings of a shuttered industrial complex in Springfield, Illinois accompanied by a thoughtful essay on the buildings’ history.

Nib Rot #1 also features “Pre-Post-Apocalpytic Drawings” by Paul Nudd, a steaming grotesquerie of pustulent orifices, barbecued tumors, and potted brains all rendered in Nudd’s inimitable imagist style.

Nib Rot #1 features “Twains” by Ryan Edge, a comic tale of a Mark Twain impersonator with dubious motives who moves into the author's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri.