Archive for the 'Paper' Category
Weekly Mishmash: May 4-10
May 11th, 2008The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 by Charles M. Schulz. Fantagraphics’ two volume a year, two years in each volume Complete Peanuts series is still in full swing with the 1967-68 volume having just been released, but I’m still playing catch-up with this earlier volume. The strips from 1959-60 find Schulz at the peak of his talents, […]
Book Review: At a Crossroads
May 8th, 2008You just graduated college, now what to do? Conventional wisdom tells us it’s time to get out there in the so-called “real world” and get in on the ground floor of a lifelong career. That’s what you’re repeatedly told in your teens and early ’20s, but from a jaded 39 year-old’s perspective I now know […]
Weekly Mishmash: April 27-May 3
May 4th, 2008Lots of B&W movie watching this week:
The B-52’s - Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation. Spotted this for $7.99 (new) at the local indie record store and had to get it, since an old copy of Cosmic Thing was only other thing I had by them. This is a good, solid — albeit flawed […]
Weekly Mishmash: March 30-April 5
April 6th, 2008Atonement (2007). This one seemed a bit too predictable from the previews, but I found it really absorbing once the momentum of what will happen to Keira Knightley and James MacAvoy started building. Direction was good if a little show-offy (the six-minute tracking shot on the beach, and a scene with Knightley primping in front […]
Weekly Mishmash: March 9-15
March 16th, 2008You know, it’s been four weeks since the Weekly Mishmash has started, and there hasn’t been a single comment on anything in them. Do you like these? Are they lame? I’m getting lonely!
An Affair to Remember (1957). A so-called romantic classic that has eluded me until now. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are great together, […]
Book Review: Jackie Ormes
March 14th, 2008I love it when a book exposes me to an event or person that I’d previously known nothing of. This happened recently when a friend sent along an email linking to an article on Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist. This book grew out of author Nancy Goldstein’s interest in a doll modeled […]
Reams of the Unreal
February 10th, 2008Yesterday, Christopher and I took our yearly little trek to the VNSA book sale which takes place every February. This is one of the biggest used book sales in the country — and luckily it’s located just a short walk from our house. The sale is an amazing experience, with books (and book lovers) of […]
Book Review: Art Out of Time
January 26th, 2008Dan Nadel’s Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969 arrived as a Christmas gift from my s.o., who bought it off my Amazon wish list after I blindly put it on there a few years back. Something about the cover design and the concept of trolling through old newspapers for comic obscurities appealed to […]
Bette in Bookstores
November 14th, 2007Although only the latest in a long string of similar bios, Ed Sikov’s Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis is an excellent book which manages to uncover new insights into the subject. Having considered Sikov’s 1998 bio on Billy Wilder one of the finest books on filmmaking ever, I devoured this one in galley […]
Book Review: Hand Job
October 21st, 2007Michael Perry’s Hand Job: A Catalog of Type gathers the work of 55 artists who, in rebellion against computers, excel in hand-drawn typography and design. I remember first noticing this trend in the opening credits to Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, with cast and crew names floating around in lettering mimicking the loopy and unpolished […]
Good Grief!
October 15th, 2007It looks like Ford at Basic Hip Digital Oddio will be shutting down much of his site by the end of the year. Better enjoy stuff like Vertigo: Then and Now before they’re gone forever.
Also: Bill Watterson reviews the new Charles M. Schulz bio for The Wall Street Journal (thanks, Eric!). I can’t wait to […]
March of the Penguins
October 4th, 2007Hello — I am back from Key West, Florida, with a keen suntan and lots of stories to tell. More about that later, but first I wanted to write about something I found in the Atlanta airport bookstore. Shortly before our return trip, I had finished the Peggy Lee bio I brought and was in […]
Book Review: Uncovered
September 27th, 2007You might have seen the work of photographer Thomas Allen floating around the weblogs a few months back — he’s the guy who cuts out and arranges pulpy paperback books from the ’50s in surprising and delightful ways. Now some of his work has been collected in a new monograph, Uncovered: Photographs by Thomas Allen. […]
Manga Carta
September 26th, 2007I had a bit of a deja vu moment while paging through the Geekipedia supplement of the latest Wired magazine. To illustrate the section on manga comics, they scanned a detail from the cover of the 28th and final Rurouni Kenshin volume — which I designed! I am so intimately acquainted with that artwork that […]
Best of Times, Worst of Times
September 22nd, 2007By now you’ve probably heard that the New York Times is discontinuing its Times Select subscription service and opening up their digital archives. The coolest part is the free online access to all of the copyright-free articles the paper published between 1851 and 1922. Although Jason Kottke recently posted links to some of the Times’ […]
