Happy Holidays

by Dan on December 23, 2011

It’s been a stupidly busy December, but before I take a break from the blog for a couple of weeks, I want to thank everyone for supporting The Casual Optimist this year — it means a lot. Really.

Happy Holidays.

The amazing book cover above is from Maraid Design’s incredible, incredible Flickr photostream. Go take a look.

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Burton Kramer Film Trailer

by Dan on December 22, 2011

A trailer for a short film by Greg Durrell about Canadian graphic designer and painter Burton Kramer to be released in Spring 2012:

Durrell has also published a book about Kramer’s design work called Burton Kramer Identities.

(via Swiss Legacy)

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Midweek Miscellany

December 21, 2011

Kate Beaton’s Wonder Woman returns. Five-Pointed Stars of Pain — An excellent post on Dan Clowes and his latest book The Death- Ray at The Brooklyn Rail: Clowes engaged themes consistent with those of literary fiction in visual terms and in bookstore-friendly formats, and he was not alone. By the turn of the millennium there emerged a [...]

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Jeet Heer on Tintin

December 19, 2011

Canadian cultural critic Jeet Heer had a great piece on Tintin in Saturday’s  Globe and Mail: Hergé belongs to the noble line of boys’ books and thrillers that includes Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, John Buchan’s The 39 Steps, Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda… This is largely a literary tradition, but Hergé [...]

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Works of Fiction by Grant Snider

December 14, 2011

Here’s a nice way to follow my post about covers:  a new literary comic by Grant Snider:

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