sexile

is a graphic novel by Jaime Cortez. He gave it to me after the Migritude show at La Pena on Friday night. I love it when other artists give me their book, CD, whatever, after seeing me perform - it's the best kind of tribute to my work.

I was saving Sexile to read on the plane tonight, but I dipped into it while I was eating lunch. Big mistake. It's totally compelling, hilarious, juicy - and now I don't want to put it down. Good graphic novels hook me that way - like Marjane Satrape's Persepolis, and Derek Kirk Kim's Same Difference and Other Stories. I stayed up past 3am reading both of them.