Thursday, October 15, 2026

Black Arms to Hold You Up by Ben Passmore

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I don't know if Ben Passmore would call himself a radical cartoonist. His semi-fictional avatar in this book is presented as the unsophi...
Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Medallion Status by John Hodgman

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I don't want to hit a man when he's already no longer on TV. And I found this book very entertaining, with lots of great sentences a...
Tuesday, October 13, 2026

The Undertaker, Vol. 3: The Ogre of Camp Sutter by Xavier Dorison & Ralph Meyer

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So this is possibly confusing: the previous Undertaker  book I read was " Volume 1 ," but it included the first two French albums....
Monday, October 12, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Let Go

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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, October 11, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of October 10, 2026

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Two books came in the mail this week - from Tachyon - and I grabbed one at the library. I'll take them in that order. First up is is a n...
Saturday, October 10, 2026

Quote of the Week: Portrait of a Criminal Attorney

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E. Andrew Prosker, as he called himself, had all the appurtenances of a rich man, including in a Long Island stable two racing horses of whi...
Friday, October 09, 2026

All My Friends by Hope Larson

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It's not always safe to say that a series is definitively over - writers, like life, find a way to come back - but when a third book cam...
Thursday, October 08, 2026

The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake

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Donald Westlake was two of my favorite writers. Well, maybe three, but two of them used the same name. Perhaps I should explain. Westlake wr...
Wednesday, October 07, 2026

This Beautiful, Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini

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Comics can be almost anything. They can be fictional or non-fiction. They can be wordless or almost illustrated prose. They can be immediate...
Tuesday, October 06, 2026

Seven Places Without You by Juan Berrio

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Just reading two books by a creator doesn't make you an expert: let me say that up front. I read Juan Berrio's lovely wordless Kiosc...
Monday, October 05, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Tuesday's Gone

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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, October 04, 2026

Books Read: September 2026

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As I always say: this is mostly an index, and mostly for me. But here's what I read last month: Ben Passmore, Black Arms to Hold You Up ...

Antick Musings Is Old Enough to Drink Today!

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As of today, Antick Musings  is twenty-one years old. That may seem impressive, but I have two children older than that. I also tend to see ...
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Saturday, October 03, 2026

Quote of the Week: Another Morning

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I thought about sitting up. The various governing bodies in my mind all agreed that this would be a good thing, but there were disputes over...
Friday, October 02, 2026

Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography by Joshua Kendall

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I was an avid Doonesbury  reader in my youth; I assembled all of the books eventually (up to about 2009, though I might have missed the rare...