29 November 2011

Kaliko Vision

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In L. Frank Baum ’s Ozma of Oz , Roquat the Nome King is served by a Nome introduced this way: Meantime the King ordered refreshments to be...
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28 November 2011

I Remember When Barney Frank Was in Worse Shape Than Me

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Barney Frank has represented me in the U.S. Congress since before I could vote. [Well, in some college years I voted in another state.] I w...
27 November 2011

When Did Dick Grayson Become a “Ward”?

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Prompted by an Oz and Ends reader, I plan to devote the next few installments of the weekly Robin to explore the legalities of the relatio...
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26 November 2011

One of the Book Fair Faithful

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I grew up with the New England Mobile Book Fair as one of my local bookstores. It was a store like no other. The company started as a whole...
25 November 2011

Greatest Insight Ever—A New Age of Overstatement?

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Back in 2008 I quoted Adam Gopnik writing in the New Yorker about an early-20th-century shift in prose style: Writers like Shaw and Chest...
23 November 2011

“The ever-amazing Jefferson Mays”

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Charles Isherwood’s review of Blood and Gifts , J. T. Rogers’s new play about Afghanistan in the 1980s, is positive all around, but singles...
22 November 2011

The Tin Woodman’s Head on My Mind

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In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , W. W. Denslow gave the Tin Woodman a skull-shaped head. Of course, the long nose and ears riveted on tha...
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21 November 2011

Daredevil and the Family Circus

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A day after  analyzing some big panels in which a single character appears multiple times, I read  Tucker Stone’s Comixology interview wit...
20 November 2011

Eleven Nightwings in One Panel

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Earlier this month Miguel Rosa at Comics Without Frontiers set himself to “find a panel that shows a character doing multiple actions.” Th...
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19 November 2011

Eleanor Davis Shows the Invisible

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I can’t keep writing about how comics “show the invisible” without pointing to Eleanor Davis ’s delight-filled The Secret Science Alliance ...