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More Frazetta
December 10, 2007 – 3:14 pm
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has some great Frazetta art, here, here and here.
Amazing stuff.
John Carter animation 1936
December 9, 2007 – 11:28 pm
(original here)
In Frazetta - Painting with Fire, it is pointed out that Frank Frazetta really transformed the way we imagine heroic fantasy, which had previously been dressed in classical Roman garb. Interesting to see some suggestion of that here.
(via)
Jim! / What is it, Bones? / They’ve stolen Spock’s brain!
December 7, 2007 – 12:06 pm
A great song by I, Ludicrous - check it out.
(only been listened to 140 times!)
UPDATE: noticed and fixed the typo in the headline… D’Oh!
Post-punk
November 30, 2007 – 11:12 am
Someone’s conveniently packaged links to a lot of post punk videos, no doubt working on the assumption that those of us old enough to have liked this stuff when it first came out are starting to have trouble remembering things like friends’ birthdays, where the damn car keys are, and the names of post-punk bands…
A masterpiece in 150 words
November 1, 2007 – 2:35 pm
From Alan Moore, of course - who else?
THIS WARN YOU
Docs after in oldspeak. Untruth, make-ups only. Make-ups make THOUGHTCRIME. Careful. Supervisor rank or not read. This warn you. THOUGHTCRIME in docs after. SEXCRIME in docs after. Careful. If self excited, report. If other excited, report. Everything report. Withhold accurate report is INFOCRIME. This warn you. [...]
Things I didn’t know (the day before) yesterday
October 23, 2007 – 2:11 pm
God & Gold, p. 123:
Thomas Cochrane, the tenth Earl of Dundonald, was a British admiral whose adventures Patrick O’Brian used as a partial model for his Aubrey/Maturin novels. Temporarily dropped from the British naval list after attempting to make money in the financial markets by abusing his naval position to spread false rumors about the [...]
Nouvelle Vague
October 5, 2007 – 12:32 am
So, I was in the comic store picking up what turned out to be just one comic from my sub folder, when I noticed that Tony was playing a CD of some sultry-voiced French singers covering a PiL song. While we chatted a bit, more covers played: XTC’s Making Plans for Nigel, the DKs Too [...]
Inky comic goodness
September 19, 2007 – 5:06 pm
Thoughts on some comics:
I noticed Becky Cloonan’s work a while back, while trawling around on DeviantArt. It took some hunting, but I eventually found myself a copy of East Coast Rising - her story about pirates off the Jersey shore after the sea level has risen enough to drown most of what is currently coastal [...]
Ramon, could I trouble you for the name of your chemist?
September 19, 2007 – 11:19 am
Recommended: Kukuburi. Bright colors, bold outlines, cartoony… totally not my thing, and yet, I’m really liking it. Nice, Ramon!
A man after my own heart
September 12, 2007 – 12:12 am
Journalista’s Dirk Deppy interviewed:
What really makes me want to die? The way industry true-believers assume that comics not featuring capes and tights are seen as diversions that “hurt comics,” and that different and conflicting senses of aesthetics are some sort of personal attack. I realize that this contradicts the nonchalance that I affected in the [...]
“Much to My Surprise, and Probably Everybody Else’s, I Am Now in the Music Business.”
August 26, 2007 – 1:08 am
Available for pre-order at amazon. I think my photo choice was a bit better.
(I wonder if it’ll sell under this title in Singapore?)
100 Bullets
August 23, 2007 – 4:07 pm
A story so complicated you need a map to follow it [spoilers].
I like this comic, but got quite lost a while ago. When all 100 have been published, I’ll sit down and read the whole thing through, and see if I can make sense of it. If I have trouble, maybe I’ll follow Peace’s lead [...]
The past is another country
August 23, 2007 – 3:36 pm
…and while you wouldn’t want to live there, you might want to check it out via the excellent “Shorpy - the 100 year old photoblog“.
Poetaster popularity finally on the wane
August 23, 2007 – 3:06 pm
Twenty years late, but welcome nonetheless:
Today that same market is telling rappers to please shut up. While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap. According to the music trade publication Billboard, rap sales have dropped 44% since 2000 and declined from 13% of all music sales to 10%. Artists who were [...]
Jeff, you can quit your day job now*
August 23, 2007 – 2:30 pm
Jeff Lester’s written a great review of The Bourne Ultimatum.
*unless you’re already writing for a living, of course.