Tag: Reading List
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Manga Miss
Manga publishing is a huge industry in Japan, which has the largest and most diverse comics industry in the world. It’s really beginning to gain a foothold here in the US, if the library shelves and bookstores are any indication. I was introduced to it in Raw Magazine in the early 80s, a special section…
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Zine But Not Heard? Hardly.
This blog is about art matters and books. The ‘intellectual’ mediums (movies, theatre, opera, literary novels) and the media once reviled as ‘lowbrow’- comics, TV, genre lit, both interest me. Do they intersect? For me, they do, and for many they always have. An influence on my thinking about pop culture was Hermenaut, a now…
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Besties 2025
My annual list of the best things I read in comics got a little lost in the shuffle this year. I read many comics, more than most years, though these were the clear leaders. Final Cut, Burns, 2024: Burns is well known and justly celebrated for his teen horror comics. These are hyperreal clear line…
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Rabbit Holes and Time Warps
Despite holiday socializing, and the onset of MoPrint, I’ve been reading a lot. I promised myself I’d catch up on movies, and I’ve watched some, especially a couple on or by Phillip Glass, but mostly books, and since I finished Shadow Ticket, mostly non fiction. Sometimes books just naturally lead into one another. After reading…
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Shadow Novel
“When trouble comes to town, it usually takes the North Shore Line.” As good a place as any to start. A new Pynchon novel, Shadow Ticket, came out in October, and for those who were waiting for this sort of validation, The New Yorker has weighed in, and it is safe to ignore it. I…
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Attack of the Stack
The end of Summer and early Fall brings moderate weather, the last of the bright sun, and cool nights. An end to Summer projects- an art show, kids’ art camps, various supporting projects on the computer- and there is time to read in the morning and at night. Half-finished books, the casualties of the limited…
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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,…
