I Seriously Do Not Remember Alf This Way
by Alf would have certainly been a lot more interesting this way. Thanks for the nightmare, Rob & Elliot.
Category: Culture
T to the R
Theodore Roosevelt was a complicated man alright. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and genuine believer in the virtue of warfare. Those last two panels are brilliant.
Mini-Comics in the Library Of Congress
Maybe comics still needs more popular respect as an art form (rather than as a development platform for superhero movies) but this is certainly a sign of respect from our nation’s curator of literature and culture. I don’t normally post press releases but what the hey: SPX Acquires the Dean Haspiel Collection and Other Mini-Comics for the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress Bethesda, Maryland; June 17, 2012 – Small Press Expo is pleased to announce that Dean Haspiel has generously donated his mini-comic collection to the Small Press Expo Collection at the Library of Congress. The …
Battlefield: Hastings
I’ve been rereading the world’s funniest history nerd webcomic, Hark A Vagrant, and saw a link to this animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry. A simple but clever idea that really brings it to life: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGoBZ4D4_E]
Player One – Go!
Ready Player One is a good book that I read on the recommendation of the Boing Boing review. Author Ernest Cline created a really fun story within which he could mine Eighties nostalgia. Ultimately the characters were a little too thin for me to fully invest in the book but I still think it was one of the better science fiction style novels I’ve read recently. This month the paperback for it came out. Cline has done a really wonderful thing to promote the book — he’s created an alternative reality game (otherwise called an ARG) that mimics the contest …
We Have A Hulkster
I went back to check out Mr. Hipp, the fairly impressive art and comics blog, which features a lot of comics to pop culture mashup ideas. It’s a mainstream version of T.S. Elliott’s The Wasteland, without all of the footnotes. Take elements, memes, from different sources and cross-pollinating them is one of the major schools of art these days. This might be my current favorite one from Dan Hipp’s blog right now: But it’s a current favorite. It takes a well-known line from the very current Avengers movie and a very Eighties wrestling star to create the new punchline. While I …
Moonlighting: Still One Of My Favorite Things
Linda Holmes of NPR writes about how the last season of Moonlighting is actually NOT evidence that resolving romance will kill a show. In fact Moonlighting’s erratic wind-down is evidence that you can’t write half a season’s shows focusing on the secondary characters alone (which is what they did as Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd were barely onscreen for many episodes that year). But for the rest of Moonlighting’s run it was a great show – inventive, clever, and spirited. I was in highschool when it was on and it was our watercooler show — we rehashed, requoted and rehearsed what we’d seen …