Monday, August 31, 2026

All of This and Nothing: What's a Devil to Do?

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Sunday, August 30, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of August 29, 2026

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I'm on vacation this last week of American summer, so I gathered books from all directions - mostly in time for the actual vacation. Thi...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

Quote of the Week: A Night in Hollywood

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In the Hollywood Roosevelt bar she complained of the air and said she felt wretched and old. Nonsense, I told her, but we moved to the Zebra...
Friday, August 28, 2026

John Cuneo's Good Intentions

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John Cuneo is an illustrator: he's done a bunch of New Yorker  covers, worked for Esquire , and so on. But, like any artist, there's...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Proof That the Devil Loves You by Gilbert Hernandez

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So Gilbert Hernandez makes his regular comics stories - I almost said "normal," but that's not the right word here - with cont...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Perfect Example by John Porcellino

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When you self-publish a comic on any kind of regular basis, you tend to pour all of your creative work into that one outlet. (I don't th...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

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I have a shelf dedicated to reading projects, in my to-be-read bookcases. It's mostly sat quietly for the last few years, with three hal...
Monday, August 24, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Barracuda

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Quote of the Week: The Vocal Qualities of Rural Aunts

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I had already divined who was at the other end of the wire, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia having a habit of talking on the telephone wit...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Muybridge by Guy Delisle

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Guy Delisle's new book last year - his first graphic novel since 2021's Factory Summers  - was something of a change of pace. Delisl...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

How I Make Comics by Kim Deitch

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Kim Deitch's work has been largely of a piece for the last thirty or so years, going back to A Shroud for Waldo . Deitch himself is a ch...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

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This is the fourteenth of the fifteen books primarily about Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves. Others may argue with that number, since it i...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud

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If you knew nothing else, and heard that Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud had made a graphic novel together under the title The Cartoonist...
Monday, August 17, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Alarm Clock

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of August 15, 2026

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I was out at the library, and vaguely unhappy with the choices I had at home for my next book to read. (Three big bookcases just isn't e...