June 2009
3 posts
Time for a new definition of the supervillain
This last couple of weeks have seen a change in the way that many of us receive our international news. Rather than reading it through the filter of international news agencies, we have been reading and watching about the election in Iran via the online posts and videos of individual people actually living there, even major news agencies are getting news items this way. In the past news was...
Jun 25th
Sonia's Linkage: from the sublime to the...
I thought that it’d be fun to share a very few of the many sites that relate to comic books which I found to be in some way of special interest. My apologies if you’ve already seen them elsewhere, I do my best, but half the time I’m oblivious to what’s current. This is just the stuff that I found especially nifty. Scott McCloud’s talk at TED I meant to post...
Jun 11th
Symbolism in Art and Comics via Seaguy and...
This week saw the third and last issue of Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewarts’ Seaguy, Slaves of Mickey Eye. After reading the issue, I fell immediately into a deep sleep wherein I had the oddest dreams. The details of the dreams are hazy, but what I do remember is that moment upon half waking where I thought “It’s just like being in Seaguy, it all makes sense.” and...
Jun 4th