Showing posts with label Comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comics. Show all posts
Friday, January 04, 2019

My Photographic Novel, Happenstance, Is Nearly 3/4 Posted! Start Reading Now!

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A graphic novel I wrote & illustrated (using photographs and photoshop) has been serializing online for about a year and a half, now.  I...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

My Photographic Novel, Happenstance, Is Now Being Serialized Online

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So some of you know that I spent much of the past decade working on a (photo-based) graphic novel titled Happenstance . I'm pleased to ...
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Sunday, March 09, 2014

Forty-Three (How I'm Living Now)

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Today, for no particular reason , I was moved to reread Harvey Pekar's classic short comics story, "I'll Be Forty-Three on F...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

No, Click Here and Drag Instead

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Gerry is right : sometimes XKCD is better than it usual brilliance.  Today was one of those days . You have to click through to the main p...
Monday, July 23, 2012

The Suspension of Disbelief Has Limits, After All

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From America's Finest News Source ( via ), it seems Superman has gotten a bit too unrealistic: While they acknowledged that enjoying th...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

XKCD is Awesome, Part 10,000,001,101

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So, devoted xkcd fan that I am, I nevertheless missed this one: its April Fool's joke this year. The comic was called " Umwelt ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Links, links, links

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Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Links, links, links. Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Polonius: I me...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Forthcoming Prequels To Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen: Quote Roundup

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I don’t want money. What I want is for this not to happen. -- Alan Moore A kinda-obvious thought occurs: the actual Watchmen sequel? The las...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

The Superhero Genre Invades the Last Remaining Outpost of Literary Culture

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... The New Yorker : nay, one better: the poetry section of The New Yorker ! I mean, they've long since left their origin-story fortress...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Quote of the Day

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Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain. You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is i...
Monday, August 08, 2011

Comics-Related Links, Mostly Over a Year Old

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These have been sitting in my "I should link to these" folder for a long time. They're all still fun. • Snoopy writes a Batma...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Xu Bing's Book from the Ground

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I'll get around to the explanation in a minute, but the main thing I wanted to do in this post is to quote the first paragraph of an ava...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Cool Webcomic

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I don't read enough web comics -- certainly given my affection for comics, and the amount of awesome stuff out there. I must admit that...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Super Duck vs. Rabbitman!

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Stealing this unbelievably fabulous image directly from Gerry : Gerry also managed to score the gimme goal by comparing this to Wittgenste...
Monday, February 07, 2011

My Head May Explode From the Sheer Awesomeness of This

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John Lewis -- former head of SNCC, participant in the Freedom Rides, and, for the past twenty-five years, a member of Congress (from Georgi...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Miserably Sexist Comics Panel of the Day

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From Fantastic Four #12 (March, 1963), by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby (scanned from The Essential Fantastic Four, Volume 1 (2001)): ...I was goi...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, by Barry Deutsch: a Review

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Hereville is terrific. Stylish, entertaining, extremely well-done with an engrossing story and fabulous page-layout: plus, above all, Herev...
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