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A few recommendations from my 2011

01.09.2012
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If you’re looking for something to light your fire, here’s a decent place to start. I used to spend a ton of time making big, long lists of my favorite everything – books, music, movies, etc. – and I took great joy in keeping those lists up-to-date. If you poke around on this site, you can [...]

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Kevin Huizenga’s lyric comics essays

05.07.2010

Kevin Huizenga is one of my 3 favorite makers of comics these days. His methods mix accessible pictures, science, philosophy, history, and autobiography all together in a form much like David (Reality Hunger) Shields describes here: The lyric essay asks what happens when an essay begins to behave less like an essay and more like [...]

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Douglas Wolk Explains Kant in 5 Minutes

03.02.2010

Douglas Wolk does Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgement, explaining “what beauty is, what art is, and why people like stuff” … in 5 minutes … with pictures of Wolverine. All hail.

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Philadelphia: Some bright spots

01.24.2010

Everyday I walk by this mural, which reminds me of Ezra Jack Keats.

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Getting to Know Philly a lil Bit

01.20.2010

But just a little bit. The first time I visited Philadelphia, I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. (Actually, it was the second time I’d been here, but I was only 12 years old for the first trip, and all I remember is the homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk as people walked over [...]

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Jeff Lemire’s favorite comics of the year

01.02.2010

Jeff Lemire, creator of the fantastically melancholy Essex County dropped a list of his faves for ’09. If you can’t trust a comic auteur of his skill, you can’t trust anybody for this. (Relevant question: Can you name a great artist in any medium who has/had horrible taste in art from that same medium?)

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Comics Tonight

02.01.2009

I read several rotten comics tonight. Urgh. Dark Avengers!? Unbelievable. Secret Wars II? Horrible.

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Jul 24, 2008

07.24.2008
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Essential Reading: Daybreak

06.03.2008

Daybreak started out as a big mystery to me. I picked-up the second issue, recognized that the art was obviously my style, and so I bought it, at the same time ordering the firs issue. I waited till I had both to read them, and I was glad for it. These two issues have left [...]

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Huizenga Follow-Up and Ganges #2

05.21.2008

Isaac Butler’s diablog response to my Essential Reading post on Kevin Huizenga’s work is right here. In it he details not only some of the reasons he digs Kevin H., but also the one major shortcoming he finds in Huizenga’s work. A couple of quotations from his post sum it up nicely. What happens in [...]

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