Patricia Highsmash

Sep 9, 2024 | comic-watch.com | Patricia Highsmash |Travis Hedge Coke

Clive Patrick Nolan is a photographer and psychotherapist who lives in Snowdonia, Wales. *******King Mob has eyebrows like a villain from Thunderbirds, a Daniel Day-Lewis face, a shaved head Grant Morrison will adopt, inconsistent facial piercings, and Steve Yeowell tried to draw him somewhat Asian. The back cover of the first issue of The Invisibles has Woody Harrelson from Natural Born Killers. Draw a dog house. Draw someone not you. Draw a kind of tree which you have not recently touched.

Feb 26, 2024 | comic-watch.com | Patricia Highsmash |Travis Hedge Coke

There Is Nothing Left to Say On The Invisibles 3.09 The Past We Read About by Travis Hedge CokeFeel that? Feel a shiver of nerves that you are seen and known? That right now you could be doing something productive enough to change your life, yet here you are, you are doing this? Time is the ache in your elbow. But, so is a bruise. The past is something we can revisit.

Dec 4, 2023 | comic-watch.com | Patricia Highsmash |Travis Hedge Coke

The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds features significantly in The Invisibles, during Volume 2, and if I were to name a song without conflict, that ambient track might come up quicker in my mind than its backstory. Little Fluffy Clouds heavily samples from an interview with American musician, Rickie Lee Jones, samples they never cleared, which resulted both in a five thousand United States Dollar payout and Jones referring to the Orb as, “those fuckers.”Tension hides in everything.

Nov 20, 2023 | comic-watch.com | Patricia Highsmash |Travis Hedge Coke

In recent days, I have been listed by an unelected politician, a professional rabble-rouser, as an ethnic fraud and a “secret Jew.” You and I know how I feel about anyone who thinks “Jew” is an insult or something incompatible with multiracial or mixed existence. That becomes a funny thing, though, and if you are not Jewish, you hesitate on using, “Jew.” Jewish person. Queer person, too. Because you may think this, may think that, but it is not about you.

Jul 22, 2023 | travishedgecoke.substack.com | Patricia Highsmash

Seventeen years ago, I wrote a satirical essay entitled, L337 Theory, on the paradisiacal and all-embracing promise of the rising geek cultural commodity. Neo-pronouns, L337-speke, torrent technology and the superhero movie boom would drive us to new heights of kindness, comprehension, international exchange, and emotive, humanist cache! Right? Surely? But, no. And, we knew it then, that it would not. That’s the wind back there, seventeen years old.