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NOSTALGIC THINKING

Thursday, April 6, 2006

I took this in my dad’s barn…

George Saunders, on becoming a prude.
The Dispatch reports on the Demise of Western.
A BBC interview with the cartoonists involved in MOME. I finally ordered #3.
Interesting article about the creative friendship between R Kikuo Johnson and Paolo Rivera.
USA Today always has fun articles on LOST.

Wednesday, April 5, 2006

I was free-drawing, and this guy came to me out of nowhere, but now he really fascinates me. What is he supposed to say? I have no idea….

Until I saw the movie, I had no clue Richard Thompson wrote the Grizzly Man Soundtrack, and Jim O’Rourke played on the session. [MP3]
Jeremy was live and acoustic last night on the BBC.
A few works by Yoshihiro Tatsumi are featured in the new Paris Review. Another lit journal warms to comics…good news.
Check out the First Second Books site, where both Eddie Cambell (From Hell) and Joann Sfar (The Rabbi’s Cat) guest blog.
NPR: Soldiers reading Shakespeare. I’m reading King Lear again, and it’s blowing my mind…

Tuesday, April 4, 2006

he was dedicated to himself...

Monday, April 3, 2006

richard tore the coathooks off the wall with his bare hands...

Saturday, April 1, 2006

When you’re not reading Nabokov’s lectures on literature, head over to MIT’s OpenCourseWare project: free access to MIT course materials. An unbelievable resource.
Ever wondered why the New Yorker continues to print John Updike stories that are so long and suck so bad? Well, they have first-reading rights with him. (As they do with many authors.) Anything he writes, they get to look at first. Not to mention you get paid $1 a word for a short story at the New Yorker. (Like I always say, never trust a writer who gets paid by the word.) Listen and weep.
Here’s Edward Tufte on cartooning.
Virginia Tufte’s Artful Sentences “presents and comments on more than 1000 excellent sentences.”
These new Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions are fantastic.
Fantagraphics releases I’m looking forward to: 1, 2, and 3.
Here’s Alan Moore on the BBC, talking about the advantages of having lived in one town all your life. More of Moore on YouTube.
And finally: the Village Voice voted Gil Mantera best show of SXSW. Youngstown, Ohio where there are two things—Gil Mantera’s Party Dream and the mafia.