Tag Archives: Comics

Suddenly Some Links Drifted By

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Wesley

Here are some of the links I’ve made note of during the weeks this blog has lain fallow: I’d love to read a collected edition of this comic strip. Mahendra Singh has written a series of blog posts analyzing the … Continue reading →

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The Comics that Scare Me

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Wesley

Mention horror comics and most comics fans picture something like this: (That’s from the recent anthology Four Color Fear. Which I will also post about at some point, although in that case the horrific bits aren’t what I intend to … Continue reading →

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Zak Sally, Like a Dog

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Wesley

Zak Sally subtitled Like a Dog, a collection of his comics from the past decade-and-a-half, “Recidivist #1, 2, and Assorted Garbage.” This subtitle rushes past “too modest” to embrace “misleadingly self-deprecating.” As he explains in his notes, Sally’s not entirely … Continue reading →

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Dino Buzzati, Poem Strip

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Wesley

Sometimes a book comes late to the party. It walks in bearing beer and waving a hot new album it’s discovered, to find that very CD blaring from the stereo and the guests already drunk. That’s Poem Strip, Dino Buzzati’s … Continue reading →

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R. O. Blechman, Dear James

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Wesley

Dear James is R. O. Blechman’s entry into the “Letters to a Young Something-or-other” genre which has sprung up in imitation of Rainer Maria Rilke. In recent years books have been addressed to young mathematicians, young activists, young conservatives, and … Continue reading →

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Mannikins

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Wesley

I’m utterly exhausted–seriously, all I want to do is sleep–so there won’t be much content this week. In the meantime, here’s another link. Stripper’s Guide has uncovered Mannikinland, a 1900 comic strip by Mark Fenderson involving wooden puppets and frequent … Continue reading →

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Comics for Health Care!

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Wesley

I’ve linked to these in blog comments elsewhere, but haven’t yet done so on my own blog. First, Kevin Huizenga discovered Superman plugging universal health care in a 1952 issue of The Adventures of Bob Hope. (Isn’t it amazing that … Continue reading →

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Harpies and Peanuts

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Wesley

Wilde attributes this joke to Carlyle: a biography of Michelangelo that would make no mention of the works of Michelangelo. So complex is reality, and so fragmentary and simplified is history, that an omniscient observer could write an indefinite, almost … Continue reading →

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