Les Philosophes by Helen Parson

Desperate Times Guest Artist Series Volume I: Helen Parson
Thanks to the wonder of the interweb, I ran into an old friend the other day. An old friend in the sense, that I knew her "when" or "back in the day." Not old friend in the sense that she's an octogenarian. Helen saved my life. Yes, it's true. In addition to saving lives, she's an artist extraordinaire. A student and teacher of the suzuki method of instruction; Helen not only teaches guitar, she writes and plays in her Seattle based band Princess Seismograph aaaaand she draws amazing comics - which are on display here for you, the people to peruse. They are brilliantly drawn and full of absurdly wordlys and Helen's staple whimsical chrimsical charm. A new comic each day for the next week folks... I promise!

Here for your comic reading and viewing pleasure: Les Philosophes






Next up: Group Spontaneous Prose with Jared, Dave and Ben

Desperate Times Goes Global

The chart above shows how many languages our little site here is viewed in. As you can see from the pie chart, Desperate Times has indeed gone global. The page is now being viewed (by a very small percentage of you) in Chinese and German. I wonder if the fresh prose is translated accurately, and if it conveys the same meaning. Either way, you are welcome to read, listen, view and comment in any language. We here at Desperate Times thank you for making us the site we are today. We hope for future growth. In fact, it's my goal to have the fresh prose poetry being read in every continent and dozens of countries across the globe by the end of the year. So tell your friends, professors, classmates, brothers, sisters, savants, hobos, jews, gentiles, wasps, asps, elephants... anybody who has access to a computer.

More to come soon,

Next up:

Featured Artist Series Volume 1: Helen Parson

...till then...

Thanks for reading

-Jared