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I just returned from Comic-Con, where I worked at the SLG Publishing booth. Most of the time, I ferry books around — helping to set up for signings and keeping the store stocked. I do a few portfolio reviews and talk to aspiring comic book creators as well. I have to admit to having divided [...] Panel from "Dude Watchin' with the Brontës" by Kate Beaton Kate Beaton is absolutely one of my favorite cartoonists right now, and this comic is an excellent example to show why. Kate writes and draws comics about literary and historical figures (she’s Canadian, so I’ve been learning about the history of her country [...] Bob Dylan in Central Park, 1965 by Richard Avedon I finally watched Don’t Look Back, the cinema vérité documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England. It’s a fairly fascinating glimpse at the in turns surly, sarcastic, and earnest young artist. He meets Donovan, Joan Baez is there and then she is not, [...] Perhaps one of the luckiest things to occur in literature happened when Gabriel García Márquez was attending law school and working as an apprentice journalist in Cartagena. Colombia was in the midst of violent political upheaval, which García Márquez had escaped from when he fled Quito. Bragging one night at a restaurant about his happy-go-lucky [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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