But in the movie, as always in the movies, writing flows easily and life is hard, when in reality life is hard and writing is harder.
Two Very Different Approaches to the 21st Century Baby
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Warm, cozy and handmade or cold and clinical? How do you want your baby to be made?
This Day in Arf History: Etta Kett
The Etta Kett strip ended on this day in 1947 after running almost 50 years. Paul Robinson started the strip for the King Features Syndicate to teach good manners, grooming and fashion. Etta Kett=etiquette, get it? Har! Har! This etiquette angle was soon dropped and the strip became a typical teen-girl strip. “Teen-girl strip”, my, the blog is gonna get lots of hits today from trollers of the search engines! I just hope the pervs mind their manners!
THE LOW NOTE IN THE HARMONY
In my youth, I was easily impressed by drawings with fine linework.
It feels undeniably cool to make such lines. Artists like Norman Lindsay (above), Virgil Finlay, Frank Frazetta and Berni Wrightson enjoyed it so much, they sometimes got carried away drawing delicate little lines.
As I matured, I noticed how some artists added a lower note to the harmony, combining light and elegant lines with heavier lines for emphasis. Below, the great Alex Raymond draws an entire figure using a…
THE LOW NOTE IN THE HARMONY
On actual Halloween night I didn’t even dress up, me and a group of friends just went to Keagan’s where my sister bartends. … Earlier that night I forgot to buy candy so all these little kids were coming to the door looking for candy. All I had handy were airplane bottles of Captain Morgan and some birth control pills — but hey, at least it’s something. I don’t see you giving back to the community.
This Day in Arf History: Steve Ditko’s Birthday! Plus: When Kermie Met Spidey!
Steve Ditko is the reason I got into this biz, really. I loved Walt Disney Comics and Stories when I was in grade school, but for all I knew they were drawn by Walt Disney who was a god. And even at my young age I knew I could never obtain that stature. But when I graduated from The Mickey Mouse Club to the Merry Marvel Marching Society in Junior High I wanted to be the next Steve Ditko. Not that I could ever hope to attain his ability, but through Marvel calling him things like “Sturdy…
This Day in Arf History: Steve Ditko’s Birthday! Plus: When Kermie Met Spidey!
No Cause for Indictment: An Autopsy of Newark
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I first saw this a few months ago, when I did a little research on the Newark riots after reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral.
There’s a lot going on here: I love the tension between the explosion of the city and the circle holding the text. The circle is more than just a circle: as the most rational geometric form, it reinforces the reasoned analysis that lies on top of (literally and figuratively) the explosive historic event. I haven’t seen this in…
Proust on jealousy
One parenthetical insight:
(It is astonishing how jealousy, which spends its time inventing so many petty but false suppositions, lacks imagination when it comes to discovering the truth.)
Marcel Proust, The Fugitive, translated by Peter Collier (London: Penguin, 2003), 402
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Bonus: Kelly Link recommends Lynda Barry’s Cruddy for the holiday, a book I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never read, even though my wife recommended it to me years ago when we first started dating. I might give it a try tonight. Why am I more willing to take advice from a stranger on the Internet than from someone whose tastes I know and trust? That is a recurring thing with me, and it is seriously messed up.
Frankenstein: A Cultural History
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