31 August 2012

Acting Out OIP Derangement Syndrome

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I had another topic in mind, but last night actor-director Clint Eastwood made a surprise appearance at the Republican National Convention...
29 August 2012

Mogo Doesn’t Plagiarize

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A colleague in the Boston Comics Roundtable told a story of someone seeing his Green Lantern T-shirt and asking, “Hal, John, or Kyle?” To...
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28 August 2012

Representative

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I’m at the local library, and nearby is this local poster promoting literacy. The lady smiling in the photo is my state representative, ...
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27 August 2012

What Happens to Hawkins?

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Another example of British publishing’s current infatuation with latter-day sequels  is Andrew Motion’s new Silver: Return to Treasure Isl...
26 August 2012

What Is John Blake Supposed to Be?

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Bleeding Cool’s Between the Pages vlog has offered a friendly  video discussion between editor Grace Randolph and superhero-fashion blogger...
24 August 2012

Niall Ferguson’s OIP Derangement Syndrome

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It’s no longer a surprise when a minor elected official from Texas goes on local television and spews conspiracy theories about President ...
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23 August 2012

Redoing Mickey’s Monkey?

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The legend of Maurice Sendak ’s In the Night Kitchen is that “librarians across the country” painted a diaper or underwear over the hero Mi...
22 August 2012

Baked-in Resentment from Sendak

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I was struck by this quotation from Jonathan Cott’s interview with Maurice Sendak in Pipers at the Gates of Dawn (1983), about the inspira...
21 August 2012

Ozma, the Birthday Girl

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Though L. Frank Baum probably never intended to convey this information, today is the birthday of Ozma , fairy queen of Oz. Some passages...
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20 August 2012

You Had to Be There

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Right-handed comics creator Jesse Lonergan is gave his left hand a workout  sketching people at the Boston Comics Roundtable meeting. The ...