Hagai Palevsky (he/him)

@katesheridanart.bsky.social

14 Jan 2025

Hi, I'm Hagai, I write comics and occasionally prose, and criticism thereof. Most of my comics can be read online for free, or purchased on a pay-what-you-want basis on Gumroad and Itch.io. Always on the lookout for new collaborators, projects, and criticism outlets. linktr.ee/DialHForHagai

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i’m getting top surgery in less than a month, the cats have fleas, and one needs dental work. i could use some help, so if you could share i’d be grateful ko-fi.com/gosshawks

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2 Oct 2025

Can I sign your cast? “Cast” is a 16-page comic written by me, drawn by @aaronlosty.bsky.social, colored by Aaron and @marissadraws.bsky.social, and lettered by @illusclaire.bsky.social. You can read it below or purchase a hi-res .pdf on Itch: hagaipalevsky.itch.io/cast

The Alberto Breccia books I bought the other day are both adaptations (Poe shorts + an Ernesto Sabato adaptation) and the thing I find striking is how few words they both sport, compared to your typical prose-to-comics adaptation. He was so much more willing to let atmosphere rule. Refreshing!

important Bilbao news: bought two jackets that are sick as fuck

more formal than I usually go for but I wandered into a vintage shop and there they were, beckoning me

I also bought some comics, surprising nobody

18h

alright everybody this is our last song, thanks for coming out, we’re the

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12 July

“Crisis on Infinite Jests” (R. Sikoryak, 2007; adapts David Foster Wallace‘s famous novel in the style of Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. 10 pages)

23h

We’re back

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social

when I was in Dublin I was at a cafe and this really annoying song came on the speakers and I was like "what is this really annoying song." then the chorus came on and I thought, huh, I guess this is the first time I'm hearing the song "Wonderwall"

23h

Chat, you know my kid better than I do. What’s the vibe there

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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probably the closest my writing will ever come to “conventional horror”

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social

You know what must be done. “Corridor Again” is a new 13-page comic drawn by @spacemacchiato.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or purchase a high-resolution .pdf for a price of your choosing at the link: hagaipalevsky.itch.io/corridor-again (1/2)

Thinking about this again, after two days of museums and more museum action coming in the next week. I think my work is a very direct representation not just of what I like but of who I am — my fears, frustrations, avoidances. Can I say that for most people driven by genre/IP concerns? I cannot!

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social

Ultimately—and this is a big part of what Mark is saying—the more concerned a work is with audience reception and with recognizability (tropes &c) the less attention it devotes to the craft of authentic expression. At which point you may as well forfeit the entire thing because what’s the point?

An easy example for someone who has found success through this avenue is Mark Waid. I’ve read his FANTASTIC FOUR, I’ve read EMPIRE, I’ve read others here and there… I genuinely can’t say that I detect any substance—any actual real-world feeling—that isn’t hyperlocalized to these fictional characters

This is not to say “straight genre entertainment can never be good” of course but if you can’t offer me more than “I think these characters are capital-I Important” or “the most important thing you can do in life is to subvert a trope” or whatever then you have almost certainly lost my interest

guy who thinks Joe Mad and Joe Matt are an Iain Banks/Iain M. Banks situation

favorite part of the @themountaingoats.bsky.social gig in London this past Thursday was that JD was very clearly moved by his own performances in ways he very clearly was not expecting. just a really powerful sense of presence—of presentness—that reminds you what live music is for

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19 Aug

There’s a story, where I come from. “A Warning” is an 8-page comic drawn by @doctop.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it in its entirety below, or purchase a high-res .pdf for a price of your choosing at the link (process edition available for $6USD): hagaipalevsky.itch.io/a-warning

we once again return to “is this comics?” with these two works of accumulative markmaking by Rafael Ruiz Balerdi. my answer is it’s not comics (once again sorry to Mr. McCloud) but it’s nonetheless fun and cool

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Went to the Guggenheim in Bilbao and found this super cool niche artist whose work seems really inspired by comics :) Do any comics folks know him/have any opinions on him???

the more I think about this book the more I like it tbh

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social

Gilbert Hernandez’s GARDEN OF THE FLESH is like if Johnny Ryan was good

haven’t read the book it’s responding to (Crumb’s GENESIS) but it nonetheless succeeds as both a joke (“here are all these biblical figures suckin and fuckin”) and a critical thesis (“so long as we view these fictional characters as more than characters we will never be able to view them as human”)

Through excess gratuitousness it immediately (and effectively) attacks Crumb for his unusual exercise of restraint and asks what it means to have *that* project, of all projects, be “the chaste one”; what it means is, of course, to fall into a kneejerk, uninterrogative mode of authorial detachment

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20 Mar

still haven’t listened to a full album from front to back but I don’t really get how people can listen to “Here Comes the Sun” or “Oh! Darling” and still be haters

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social

veering dangerously close to my inevitable Beatles phase

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21 May 2025

[Australian Beatles] yisterdye,

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quiet night at the hotel tonight, ask whatever

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social

ask whatever, don’t be weird

I think stories about “how it feels to be alive right now” (personal blending into the political, manic/psychosexual grotesqueries) should have fake popup ads for Kalshi/Polymarket-type apps show up directly in your face

Unremarked upon by the characters, of course, just a reminder for the reader that things are above all else very stupid

probably the closest my writing will ever come to “conventional horror”

Hagai Palevsky (he/him)@dialhforhagai.bsky.social

as opposed to the horror of just being alive in the world

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19 Dec 2025

my apologies to all Spanish booksellers who either have already had or will soon have to hear me utter some pathetic variation on “hola, yo no hablo Español pero yo intentar, yo buscando comics como X o Y”

have mostly been met with patience and accommodation so far, presumably they are all thinking “he’s trying so hard, we should kill him with hammers”

Didn’t expect how “closed on Sundays” Spain would be

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29 Mar

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Obv McMahon (with Tom Frame) is transcendent but one thing I think about occasionally is that it’s weird how the repetition of letters is the default way to extend sounds in comics lettering. It’s one thing in standard typeset prose, but in comics you’d think people would explore some other ways

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Mick McMahon

The idea I always go back to (in my head, my comics have never been so emphatic as to require the solution) is to simply horizontally stretch letterforms while retaining the same height; primitive of course but imho more interesting in the use of space-as-time; dashed-off notes app attempt attached

hey what should I do in Bilbao today/tomorrow (already did the Guggenheim and the Museum of Fine Arts)

@squarehead333.bsky.social

Went to the Guggenheim in Bilbao and found this super cool niche artist whose work seems really inspired by comics :) Do any comics folks know him/have any opinions on him???

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robin

Joel Priddy 2004

I like Paul Jon Milne art

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simply an immense song

Saw this 17th-century painting at the Museum of Sacred Art in Bilbao and thought “Wow, cool use of inset panels as a means of ensuring attention!”; this tendency to think exclusively in comics terms is commonly referred to as “McCloud Disorder” and generally considered terminal

Yes I reposted this because of a stupid grammatical error caused entirely by two possible ways of phrasing mashing together in my head that I only noticed six hours after the fact. Shut up

Admittedly music is probably the art form my sensibility hews most “conventional” in but I just can’t get into Craig Finn’s long-ass prose-set-to-music sentences

I think he’s very sharp and knows exactly how to get to where he wants to get to, tonally/emotionally. Unfortunately this how is unwieldy as hell

Nipped into a comic shop in Bilbao (bought two Breccia books, couldn’t decide on some other stuff). Like in France and (to a somewhat lesser extent) Italy, astonished how robust the Spanish translated market is. So much more stuff gets translated *from* English compared to the reverse

It feels at least a little crazy to see e.g. a Seth book available in Spanish that has never even been published in collected form in English. Or the new Peter Kuper, or books by Tom Hart — the sort of thing that in English would immediately be dismissed as “too niche to bother”