August 15, 2012
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Drawing for a Living — A 1994 interview with the late, great Joe Kubert, who died earlier this week aged 85, at The Comics Journal: Doing comics was usually not a matter of choice, for most artists. I guess they … Continue reading
March 28, 2012
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“Everybody Thinks Their an Auteur” — Film director and critic Peter Bogdanovich at New York Daily News book blog Page Views: Auteurism today? Well, everybody thinks they’re an auteur. But nobody seems to understand what the whole auteur thing was. … Continue reading
March 16, 2012
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Tim Maughan on the influence of the Jean Giraud on science fiction for Tor.com: [The] combination of neon-lit noir streets, cramped towering city blocks, airborne traffic jams and scruffy characters seems almost a cliche today. But this was the first … Continue reading
March 5, 2012
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It is all hands to the pump at The Optimist HQ right now (meetings, deadlines, house maintenance, and vomit-propelled kids), but apologies for the missing links on Friday. Here’s a very quick Monday round-up to make up for it: Designer Stuart … Continue reading
February 15, 2012
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Author Tim Parks has an interesting post on the virtues of e-books on the NYRB blog: The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the material object we hold in our hand and by discouraging anything … Continue reading