I recently watched the BBC series Lost in Austen, about Amanda Price, a contemporary London woman in love with the world of Jane Austen, who discovers, as it happens, she has a magic door in her bathroom that opens into the world of Pride and Prejudice. She and Elizabeth Bennet switch places, and soon Amanda [...]
 She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew. Portrait by Brian Belew. |
I was doing a little “research” for a Father’s Day “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” column, and when you have a dad like mine (he had his own kung fu school for a while, and one of my favorite things is a picture of him breaking a cinderblock with his fist), that “research” means watching [...] I’m excited about the new movie about Hypatia of Alexandria, Agora, starring Rachel Weisz and directed by Alejandro Amenábar. Here’s the teaser trailer (if you can’t see it, here’s the link): The brief scene with what looks like Hypatia teaching is lovely — it reminds me of a J.W. Waterhouse painting. Also seen — the Pharos [...] In the post-apocalyptic world after Judgment Day: Los Angeles is a barren wasteland. San Francisco is home to evil technology and an apocalypse standard-issue ruined Golden Gate Bridge. Women wear skin-tight jeans and have luxurious, full-bodied hair and perfect teeth. But Bryce Dallas Howard is bogarting a stash of lip gloss and blush. Everything is REALLY LOUD. John Connor has a podcast. And something [...] Ladies and gentlemen, we must discuss the most important question to arise from the new Star Trek movie: Why is Spock so ridiculously hot? Personally, I’m working with the theory that having (usually) superbly controlled emotions roiling beneath the surface is unfathomably sexy. A logical facade, in this sense, is no different from Byronic brooding. Why, ladies, why, [...] |
 Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez  Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle And Sebastian Anthology by Image Comics, Jamie S. Rich, Marc Ellerby, Jennifer De Guzman, Brian Belew, Mark Andrew Smith  Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut  The War at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks, Jennifer de Guzman  Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon  Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks  Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant by Belle and Sebastian  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  Anansi Boys: A Novel (P.S.) by Neil Gaiman |
|
Copyright © 2010 Jennifer de Guzman - All Rights Reserved |
||
