28 March 2020

Greenmantle, White Men

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John Buchan’s second spy novel featuring Richard Hannay was Greenmantle , published in 1916 even as the Great War was raging. Like Bucha...
26 March 2020

“Literary texts might be doubly infectious”

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I just learned about this book, but I had a tag all set up for it already. Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print...
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14 March 2020

The Magic Wand of Tudor Jenks

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I’ve been enjoying the Magic Wand book set by Tudor Jenks, published in 1905. This collection of modern fairy tales first came to my att...
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12 March 2020

Stupendo Takes Off!

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I’m pleased to report that the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Boston Powers , the Boston Comics Roundtable’s collection of all-ages s...
25 February 2020

Art for “The Axman’s Arm”

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At Skookworks, David Lee Ingersoll has just shared his illustrations from the 2006 issue of Oziana magazine, which I edited and produced...
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11 February 2020

Helping Stupendo Take Off

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This picture shows Stupendo and Secret Girl, a superhero team I dreamed up a couple of years ago in a burst of short comics scripts for ki...
21 January 2020

The First Whiff of Gunsmoke

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In the late 1940s the head of CBS, William Paley, asked his staff to develop a radio drama based on the concept of “Philip Marlowe in the ea...
27 December 2019

The Oxford and Cambridge Schools of British Fantasy

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From Slate’s interview with Maria Sachiko Cecire, professor at Bard and author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature...
24 December 2019

Life Lessons from the MGM Movie

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Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow is a short but not insubstantial riff on the MGM Wizard of Oz . The author, Peter Guzz...
18 December 2019

See What See You Yesterday Did There

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Stories of time travel with branching possibilities emphasize the results of characters’ choices even more than other types of stories. ...