A short essay on calling oneself “artist”, at IndieArtsRI.com.

Part II of the article “I H8 New York” is online. See it at IndieArtsRi.org.

Starting today, and continuing every Friday, I will be posting a short essay to IndieArtsRI.org. This week’s post is entitled “I H8 New York, Part I“.
A note, especially to my New Yorker friends: This is intended to be more stand-up routine than journalistic editorial, in case you couldn’t tell. Don’t take it too seriously.

I have been drawing The Invisible Life of Poet since the winter of 2002. That’s almost six years since the idea began. After The Dayton CityPaper dropped me in 2003, it was on-and-off for a short time, but since the fall of 2004 I have created a new Poet almost every single week. There are […]

Coming up with number 200…more stupid jokes that mean essentially nothing.

In case you didn’t notice….

I will be traveling British Columbia for almost two weeks. Hope you can wait to see what happens in part V of this series. (Hint: Poet dies and I make the strip entirely about robot zombie ninja pirate monkeys, and make billions as a total hack.)

A new blog devoted to sharing the library of ideas that fill my notebooks, simply and beautifully. Updated weekdays.
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I have just finished The Invisible Life of Poet number 200. I never thought I would make it this far, nor did I ever think I could do so much amazing work and make so little money.

The “Cleanse Patch“.
I’m all for alternative viewpoints on medicine, but seriously…the colon? Are you going to rub my foot and make me spray shit like a firehose? Or will it simply make my colon feel better? Come to think of it, my colon has been kind of listless and uninspired lately. Maybe I need to […]

…crackpot ideas dominating the political and emotional zeitgeist of the nation come up against other crackpot ideas.
 GA Governor Says Guns Should Be OK In Airport
is in direct conflict with
The Department of Homeland Security
or more generally, EVERY REASON BUSH IS STILL PRESIDENT.
I’ve been away from the gun-loving south for a long time now, so I don’t […]

If you would be interested in purchasing a full-size signed print of any Invisible Life of Poet, please send me an email or leave a comment on this post. The prints would be printed on archival 13×19 paper and probably sell for around $50. This could be mounted on foamboard or framed. I may provide […]

Pledge to donate on this Facebook group.

ComicRelated.com has a review up of DOSE magazine, which is a small publication in NYC created by Brendan McGinley that prints some of my strips. Here’s what they say:
Owing a lot of its style and tone to the strips of Chris Eliopoulous, Christopher Stetson Wilson’s The Invisible Life of Poet is a fun, if brief, […]

“Speaking of Trademarks” (176) can be seen in the July/August issue of Adbusters.

Your “economic stimulus” refund should arrive in the mail, or your bank account, soon. Be a good citizen for once and give it all to veterans and their families. You can pledge to do so on my Facebook group: Donate Your Economic Stimulus to Veterans and Their Families.
Bad reasons for not joining this group:
1) “The […]

To be frank, I should be kicking the crap out of the comics on these sites.
In addition to running for Senate, Poet is also running for top web comic. At right I have added two buttons that take you to TopWebComics.com and TheWebComicList.com. You may vote at the former every 16 hours or so — […]

…that a Google search for “gender issues” turns me up fourth in line (and after this post, probably higher). I’ve technically never done a strip that was openly about questions of gender. Even Gender War is more about “women’s issues” or “women’s rights” than it is about questions of what IS gender. On the other […]

41 - Pope Benedict
56 - The Muslim Joke Book
68 - Christmas for Halloween

Today I upped the only series of strips that ever got me in trouble with a publisher, for not-even-graphic depictions of adolescent sex. What, do they think this shit isn’t actually going in?
Psychojesus Biblequeen, Part I

Many have been asking me where all my archives are, especially 1-20. This is addressed briefly in the FAQ. However, I make a special note here on those specifically falling in the range 1-35.
When I started this comic strip, I obviously had no clue what I was doing. Not only could I not draw, I […]

Google the word “pro-patriarchist“. That’s right. I invented it. And I’m claiming it with and without the hyphen: pro-patriarchist, propatriarchist, pro-patriarchism, and propatriarchism. As long as I’m here, I claim all the other parts of speech, too:
pro-patriarchically, propatriarchically
pro-patriarchistic, propatriarchistic
pro-patriarchate, propatriarchate (technically already a word, but I’m giving it a second meaning. Don’t worry, I’m a […]

Apparently when I added the series “Poet vs. Gus, First Blood” I forgot to post the last part, which is sort of important. So here’s half an archive update.
72 - Poet vs. Gus, First Blood, Part IV

Upon receiving notice of the coming “economic stimulus” refund in the mail recently, I was immediately disgusted that this money is being given to me to spend on electronics and mortgages when it should be going to disabled veterans and their families. I started a Facebook group called Donate Your Economic Stimulus to Veterans and […]

Being a serial artist has given me a unique perspective on self-discipline. People are often impressed that I’ve been able to create Poet every week for three and a half years with hardly a break. One of the truths I have discovered in this process is the importance of creating bad art. That is, there […]

Series: Poet Abandoned (6 Strips)

53 - Poet for Senate ‘06
54 - Poet for Senate ‘06: Meet the Media
55 - Poet for Senate ‘06: The Offensive

69 - Poet vs. Gus, First Blood, Part I
70 - Poet vs. Gus, First Blood, Part II
71 - Poet vs. Gus, First Blood, Part III

31 - The Darkest Season
37 - From Paciotti’s to Pucci’s
38 - The Don’t Do Drugs Awareness Crew

The Invisible Life of Poet will be on display at Blue State Coffee at 300 Thayer Street in Providence during March and April. Opening reception is Friday, February 29th from 7 to 10 pm. I will be there. As will my homemade baked desserts.
Admission and desserts are free. I, however, charge $650 for twenty minutes […]

42 - Born Again
57 - The Marine Corps
58 - The Nightmare 

60 - It’s Morning in Biology
66 - Kill the Quarterback
67 - Kill the Quarterback, Part II 

73 - Devices of Adolescent Torture
77 - A Memorable New Year
78 - African-American Dream Simulator

79 - Spirit Day
82 - Saint Valentine’s Day
84 - Unbearable Nonviolence

Just added today:
86 - El Rey de Mexico y El Asesino del Granjero
87 - Future is Disjunction
88 - Ass-Kicking Rock Awesomeness

Big update today — the Kings and Kingmakers series, comprising seven strips.
Kings and Kingmakers, Part I

Not some of my best work, but here’s three more:
 89 - Simple Pleasures
98 - The Superficialist, Part I
99 - The Superficialist, Part II

For those of you not familiar with the story about Ben’s father (as mentioned in this week’s strip, The Common Element), I’ve uploaded the backstory, which is really just one strip long.
 85 - The Absence of the Father (warning: sad)

97 - Same Summer, Separate Worlds 

100 - The Lens Artisan
 101 - Get a Vasectomy
 102 - The Gang of Nerds

 Uploaded this week by special request: all-time favorite the Hitler strip:
80 - Hitler & Himmler 
Also uploaded, 104-108, “The Upgrades” series (aka “MechaPoet”):
 104 - The Upgrades, Part I