28 February 2011

Making a Splash in Washington

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Earlier this month on the New York Times oped page, Colin H. P. Buckley reveals how politics, a children’s picture book, and compassion mi...
27 February 2011

Mascot Beyond Rescue

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The number of novels inspired by the death of the second Jason Todd (the Robin of the late 1980s) is very small. Peter David ’s Mascot to ...
26 February 2011

“There Were a Lot of Them and They Were All 10”

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Earlier this month Prof. Carlo Rotella of Boston College wrote in the Boston Globe about doing an elementary-school visit : Recently I visi...
24 February 2011

To Ozopolis and Back

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Ozopolis is a new Oz comic, written and published by Kirk Kushin and illustrated in black and white by Gonzalo Martinez. It’s firmly based ...
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22 February 2011

Bufkin the Bibulous, Bufkin the Brave

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From the very first issues of Fables , scripted by Bill Willingham and drawn mainly by Mark Buckingham with Steve Leialoha , L. Frank Baum...
21 February 2011

Fables and Ozian Decadence

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Yesterday I quoted comics scripter Bill Willingham ’s 2009 essay against “Superhero Decadence,” which appears to be a politicized way of ex...
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20 February 2011

Willingham’s oh-so-Brave Stand Against “Superhero Decadence”

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Back in January 2009, comics scripter Bill Willingham offered the world a long grumble about superheroes not being as great as they were w...
19 February 2011

How to Play Dorothy for a Whole Week

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Here’s a detail from the Mixed-Up Files interview with author Kirby Larson : I remember vividly the first moment I realized the power of st...
18 February 2011

Lilah Bell (1908-2011)

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This is the picture of my grandmother, Lilah Bell, that accompanied her induction into the Davenport, Iowa, school system’s Hall of Honor . ...
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17 February 2011

It Must Be Valuable If a Guy Could Get 600 Ducats from the Emperor for It

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The Voynich Manuscript , now in the collections of Yale University, is getting a lot of press because radiocarbon dating has determined it ...
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