Thursday, September 04, 2025

The Man With Two Left Feet by P.G. Wodehouse

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It can be odd to think of a book like this - a decade and a half into the author's career, his second collection of short stories and ro...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Business Cat: Hostile Takeovers by Tom Fonder

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I've read chunks of the Business Cat  strip, mostly on GoComics - I've been waiting, for about three years now, for it to restart f...
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

Dante's Inferno by Paul & Gaëtan Brizzi

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The last time I read a comics adaptation of Dante, it was by Seymour Chwast . This one, you might say, is from the opposite end of the pictu...
Monday, September 01, 2025

Books Read: August 2025

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This is what I read last month; as always, it's mostly an index to the blog and primarily useful to me  rather than you the home viewer....

Better Things: Weight of the World

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"Better Things" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previou...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Quote of the Week, Supplemental: Bay City Blues

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I sat down on the bunk again. It was made of flat steel slats with a thin hard mattress over them., Two dark gray blankets were folded on it...

Quote of the Week: The Real Deal

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Much of this chronicle - perhaps, it may seem, too much - has dealt with the difficulties of getting from place to place. But that seems to ...
Friday, August 29, 2025

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

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This is the middle one, though no one knew that at the time. The Lady in the Lake  was published in 1943, the end of the first burst of Raym...
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu by Gou Tanabe

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Gou Tanabe is a manga-ka  whose work has largely been adaptations of literary works - with a particular line in adapting H.P. Lovecraft stor...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Doctor Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? by P. Craig Russell and others

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There are several different ways to collect periodical comics into book form. The most obvious, and to my mind the best, is to take a story,...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Ninety-Two Days by Evelyn Waugh

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I doubt there is a travel book with as much of a throw-my-hands-up title as Evelyn Waugh's Ninety-Two Days . It's as if he was sayin...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Better Things: Twin Cadillac Valentine

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"Better Things" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in the previou...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Quote of the Week: Getting Paid Enormously for Committing Crimes Against Which No Laws Had Been Passed

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When the United States of America, which was meant to be a Utopia for all, was less than a century old, Noah Rosewater and a few men like hi...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Safely Endangered Comics by Chris McCoy

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I haven't seen any official figures, and I don't know who would produce them, but the webcomics field seems to be at least as broad ...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Hypericum by Manuele Fior

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Manuele Fior is an Italian cartoonist - or maker of graphic novels, if you want to put it that way - who does interesting books about partic...