Let’s warm up with a little Sally Forth, in which Hilary’s off-again-on-again garage band has been booked to play a school dance.On first take, it reminds me of college radio, in which there seems invariably to be disk jockeys intent on playing the most obscure stuff they can dig up, on the apparent premise that […]
Roz Chast has just dropped a very good cartoon into our laps, a preview of her graphic memoir, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant,” which will be released in May but is available for presale.Here’s a snippet of that significantly larger sample from the New Yorker, which you should definitely go read.A good narrative […]
I don’t have a lot to say about Julia Wertz’s cartoon-filled narrative, “The Fart Party’s Over,” and it’s not a short read, so I’m going to explain why I’m sending you there and then … well, then I’m just going to send you there.It’s very compelling, it’s very well done, and I don’t know if you’ll […]
Dylan Horrocks posted a link to this comic on Facebook, with the brief message “Read this comic by Pat Grant right now. Just read it, OK? Now. (you won’t forget it, ever)”I’m tempted to just say “I agree” and sign off, but I’ll take things a little bit further. However, any substantive commentary on the piece would […]
A chilling internal monologue as Sarah Laing gives us a peek behind the curtain and lets us watch as she is browbeaten by a disembodied Katherine Mansfield, who is not only utterly dismissive of her talent but surprisingly au courant about the artists who could – any of them — do a much better job.(I […]
Okay, before I start blathering today, you have to go read Matt Bors’ review of the new GI Joe movie.Seriously. Go.I’ll wait….Was that awesome, or what?It brings up some great possibilities, only coincidentally related to the loss of Roger Ebert. But given the increasingly visual nature of our culture, given the decreasing attention span of our culture, […]
There’s a thing going around — oh, sorry — got to start over …There’s a meme – which is much more important than “a thing going around” — that exists under a few different names, but which can be tracked down by Googling “Superman is kind of a dick.” It consists of covers of old DC […]