DEER DIARY BANNER

As it turns out, Megan needed a banner for her Etsy shop, not just a regular image. So I reworked everything and this is the final product.

TONIGHT @ GENERATION RECORDS

[Flyer by Pat at Twin Cuts]

Tonight, Bridge & Tunnel and Cheeky achieve childhood dreams by playing at Generation Records in Manhattan.

DEER DIARY

My friend Megan is going to be launching an Etsy store of her vintage and handmade goods called Deer Diary. These are the logos I drew up for her.

REVIEW: Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

Here's the review I did of Marnie Stern's This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That for FEMINIST REVIEW (January 16, 2009).

Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
Kill Rock Stars

Marnie Stern was brought to my attention by one of my favorite shredders, Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females. This could not be more appropriate as Marnie Stern is also a shredder.

Read the full review here

REVIEW: CHE: A Graphic Biography by Spain Rodriguez

Here's the review I did of Spain Rodriguez's CHE: A Graphic Biography for Maximum Rocknroll (issue #309, February 2009).

[UNEDITED]

CHE: A Graphic Biography
Spain Rodriguez
120 pages - $17
Verso Books
http://versobooks.com/

Spain Rodriguez is a radical-comic-artist-turned-radical-historian in his latest book, CHE: A Graphic Biography. Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez teamed up with author and lecturer Paul Buhle to illustrate the life and adventures of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in this entertaining and painstaking comic work. Spain, the legendary underground comic artist, is a logical candidate for this project, as his history is rooted in radical political comics. Graphically, the first artist I thought of while viewing Rodriguez's work was R. Crumb. Another logical connection: R. Crumb was the founding member of Zap Comix, and a fellow founder of the underground comics movement of the 1960's, both of which Spain was also an integral part.

BUILD YR OWN DISTRO

[NOTE: Check out my TOP 2008 post, below! I was editing it so it back-posted to the original date, January 2nd.]

Friend + co-conspirator Jeff Rosenstock asked me to contribute to the upcoming Bomb the Music Industry! zine that will be featured in the liner notes of their new album, Scrambles. What he forgot to tell me was all he needed was some text and not a "zine page," per se. The zine will be a sort of D.I.Y. how-to booklet. Based on my experience with For the Birds, I wrote up a short and pretty generic guide to starting a distro. The timeline was short, so check the mediocre layout and the vague ideas about building a distro. Also, the final product will not involve this layout at all. Jeff is doing his own thing and formatted my edited text (not the same as in the image above) to fit the layout he is working with.

Here is the text that will be in the zine:

BUILD YR OWN DISTRO!

by Kate Wadkins

GET BENT II

Here's another (low-res) design I did for Get Bent.

TOPS 2008

+ TOP THINGS OTHER PEOPLE DID IN 2008

Canadian Rifle - HEALTH EP. I don't know if this came out in 2007 or something, but I didn't hear it 'til 2008.

Friends' new bands. Witches / Little Lungs / Psyched to Die / Loose Tooth / Homewreckers. They done good.

Screaming Females live. I think I saw them like 25 times.

On that note, Marissa Paternoster's artwork, over + over again.

Layla Gibbon's MRR columns.

Raymond Pettibon, the silkscreen cover he did for MRR #304, and his zine, The Major Arteries.

Cynthia's sweets.

ZINES: THE WORST, I Stopped Talking an Hour Ago, SHOTGUN SEAMSTRESS

POSTERS, ARTWORK + TATTOOS by No Guts No Glory. Especially the "MOM, I'M GONNA BE A METALHEAD FOREVER!" print, which is hanging in my living room.

The Ergs! last shows. Plus "Anthem for a New Amanda"

Hunchback + Screaming Females - split 7". So into these Neil Young covers.

Teenage Cool Kids - cassette w/ Queer Salutations CD + Remember Me as a Silhouette 7"

P.S. Eliot! Sweetest girls and seriously, you are missing out if you are not paying attention to this band. They just keep getting better.

Cult Ritual live at a house show at the Fest. Also, the 2nd EP that came out on Youth Attack is pretty great and has some amazing packaging.

I also listened to that dog.'s Retreat from the Sun over and over and over again, but that came out in 1997. And lots of Government Warning.

+ TOP THINGS IN MY WORLD 2008

1. FOR THE BIRDS: FEMINIST COLLECTIVE + DISTRO (and all the ladies that make it possible)

2. THE BIG SHE-BANG 3

3. Going to San Francisco + seeing Pinhead Gunpowder

4. Touring with Screaming Females [Cheeky]

5. Playing with Tobi Vail & Molly Neuman's new bands [Carnal Knowledge]

6. Playing for a bunch of little grrls at Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls [Carnal Knowledge]

7. Playing at The Fest [Cheeky]

8. My first and second vinyl releases ever. Both with Cheeky.

9. Playing with Dillinger Four [Carnal Knowledge]

10. Releasing The Big She-Bang! compilation

11. Christine visiting from Tucson (in August and now!)

12. Greenpoint, my new neighborhood

13. Sundays

14. Writing + drawing so much more than in 2007

15. Christmas at my folks' house

16. Burnasaurus. For many reasons, including really good friends being in town to ring in the new year, and old friend surprises, and new beginnings!

17. Brian Schleyer

18. The adventures of Apartment #4S -- an epic year [Sept. 2007 - Sept. 2008]. This includes any and all ragers, roof hang outs, rollerskating and/or skateboarding events, and cuddle sessions on the giant couch. And cooking with Kate.

19. Cheekend II with Tin Kitchen + Screaming Females

20. "Eviction Party" show -- Bad Dates, Each Other's Mothers, and Cheeky at McKibbin.

To a happy and healthy 2009!

MUCH LOVE / KW