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Midweek Miscellany

May 25, 2011

Line o’ Type — John Hendel celebrates 125 years of Linotype at The Atlantic: A German immigrant named Ottmar Mergenthaler invented [Linotype] in the 1880s and continued to promote and expand its use until dying in Baltimore in 1899. The Linotype’s power involved transferring a line of text (typed with meticulous care by a Linotypist [...]

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Something for the Weekend

May 6, 2011

A distinctively typographic cover by David Pearson for Vault by David Rose, new from Salt Publishing. Giving Up Irony — John Self reviews Edward St. Aubyn’s At Last: The author’s background, like Patrick’s, is of inherited wealth; perhaps it is this which enables him to treat his characters mockingly and sympathetically at the same time. [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

April 20, 2011

How Much Is It Worth? — Ivan Brunetti on teaching, and his book Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, at The Comics Journal: To me, art is not about talent, it’s about hard work. It’s about developing one’s intelligence, thoughtfulness, and sensitivity. To some degree, the potential for these things seems to vary, implying they are perhaps [...]

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Aaron Renier’s Mathilda

March 11, 2011

Based on Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Quentin Blake’s illustrations, cartoonist Aaron Renier has created a wonderful comic about the joy of books and libraries. Read the whole strip at Unshelved. (via Drawn | The Ephemerist) Tweet

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Midweek Miscellany

February 16, 2011

Risky Business — Cartoonist Adrian Tomine talks about his new book Scenes From An Impending Marriage, which originally started life as a mini-comic for his wedding guests, with More Intelligent Life: I probably first started thinking about publishing it when a copy appeared on eBay. I assumed that since it was only given to close [...]

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