The latest issue of Rick Veitch’s legendary comic Rare Bit Fiends is out now with the glorious golden pupa cover. I mention because it’s not only a series of interest to anyone obsessed with dreams, comics or surrealism but also because I have a dream in it–not drawn, mind you, but happy to add to the melange of surrealism with a genuine weird dream.

Buy it here.

Now that the mainstream media has taken up a notorious story it will doubtless have repercussions for comics as a whole — and the media inspired by it. Alas, that probably doesn’t affect the seemingly endless supply of superhero media. The tiny men who scream endlessly about their super-powered masculinity have created such a din; they hope no one will realise what pathetic excuses for human beings they are.

Apropos of nothing, did you know that pal Byron Ballard often offers terrific classes on the history of bane work and hexing? More about hexing anon. Much fuel to offer.

I’ve become fascinated with the tarot of Xul Solar, a pal of Jorge Luís Borges, and someone whose art took in a look at surrealism as well as a deep study of the occult. He didn’t think too much of the Surrealists but thought much about how to portray the tarot. Here’s his Sagittarius (yes, astrology also important to him):

I seem to be getting back to tarot in a big way, as you may have guessed from recent events. Where will it lead? Who can say: perhaps dreams, perhaps it’s in the cards…