Tag: Reading List
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A Book Is To Dream With
A Dusty Reading List I’ve recently undergone a rite of passage that many experience far earlier than I have: The loss of my last surviving parent. Dad was sharp and able up until the last couple of months. He spent most of his time in his chair, next to a stack of books, and it…
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Pop Go the Besties
It’s been a year. Filled with event, not all of them positive. We forge on, after a crazy summer of family matters, and my usual art show scramble. Not to mention the Red States’ massive brain fart in November. I survived the summer family drama, and then got through the art show rush, then I…
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Summer Muse
MoPrint took a bit out of me, blog wise. Its frantic pace stretched into April and I also took May off, mostly. By June, I was back into a regular studio routine, but never picked up the thread here. My latest studio icon is boxes. I sometimes like to take a simple image and explore…
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Besties Be On My Way
I had a lot more time than usual to read this year, and I took it, sometimes ignoring my TV for days into weeks. I read quite a bit of prose this year ( finally finishing The Sot-Weed Factor), but there are reams and megapixels devoted to that, and so I return to my niche,…
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Words and Pictures
I try to communicate just what it is about comics that has carried my interest across decades, from my years as a thrilled kid and enthralled teen to my dotage as a book blurb blogger. I have never stopped searching for the thrill that only the synthesis of words and pictures can provide, and the…
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The Resties
Each year end, to join in the fun of year end book lists, but also to sort of process what I’ve read, I put out a favorites list I call Besties. It’s actually two lists; one features recent or recently discovered books, with a Bestiest as top title; and the second dwells mostly on collections…
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It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Besties
Besties, if you’ve been living in a MAGA echo chamber, are my breathlessly anticipated yearly list of best comics. Or, as Marvel called their comics for a brief moment during the Stan Lee fever dream of superhero magic that jump started the Marvel Cinematic Universe many decades ago when bell bottoms were wide, and colors…
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A Library of Ideas
Library of Babel is a Jorge Luis Borges short fiction that clearly inspired the library in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. It’s a delightful story, and the themes of infinity and mathematical abstraction appealed to me at a time when I was beginning a cycle of work so I put it to the…
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Whereas:
Whereas: I’m having a good Summer, drinking coffee and reading in the cool mornings, and when the afternoons get blazing hot, I simply pour a gin and tonic or a white wine and sit under the ceiling fan, reading any number of various diverse books that have piled up, until it cools enough to venture…
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Postponed Bliss
There’s a rhythm to this blog thing. Twice a week studio schedule means there will be projects to talk about, but they will naturally involve writing incessantly about me. Nick Hornby-style book blurbs provide topical diversity, and a never depleting pile of subjects to write about. But there’s a catch: One has to finish the…
