I just drove up to Fantagraphics and got a couple hot-off-the-press advance copies – yay!!! – and I have one in my paws AT THIS MOMENT (…and, that’s a Spongebob band-aid on my thumb). And here it is, ON MY SHELF! There’s a gold foil on the spine, too. I love a good spine! Also: …
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When words and pictures are combined to tell a story, one medium or the other usually ends up doing most of the heavy lifting. Personally, I prefer art where the picture plays a more important role than the words. But the People In Charge of Handing Out Awards seem to have a different view. The …
Four Color #1042Four Color #1042
Harry, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it – just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at a men’s store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black …
Stop for a good night’s rest: good advice for anyone doing a long-distance drive this Thanksgiving weekend. Close cover before striking: good advice for us all. Wikipedia: Williams, Arizona was “the last town to have its section of Route 66 bypassed.” My son Ben found this matchbook on the street. Who could’ve dropped it? Someone …
Bookslut’s Colleen Mondor brought Goodbye Madame Butterfly and Chin Music Press to my attention. Like the hardcover of Dave Eggers’ What is the What, there’s no dustjacket – the illustration is imprinted directly on the cover. Check out the beautiful endpapers. And how cool is this: “The full-color illustrations on the cover, the endpapers and …
CIA paparazzo Trevor Paglen is a thorn in Uncle Sam’s side. Known for snapping telephoto candids of CIA planes and Area 51, the artist also gathers “patch intel,” which he’s collected in this provocative book (main title: “I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me”). The fruit of several …
Superman Family #204Superman Family #204
Audiobooks are my e-books. … Audiobooks take the content from a novel and turn it into something else – something I can use when I can’t read a novel. That’s what these e-book readers seem to miss. I want to search text, transform it, cut and paste it, and listen to it. If I want …
One hundred years ago: “Sing Sing Prisoners Merry, Convicts Give a Minstrel and Vaudeville Entertainment,” New York Times, November 29, 1907 Happy Thanksgiving to all! TagsSing Sing, Thanksgiving Thanksgiving at Sing Sing
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