Andrew Vachss – Safe House
One of the things I like about Richard Stark’s Parker novels is the sense of a man taking care, an expert in his craft; also the sense of a world more or less coexisting with the one I know of which I am complet[…]

Zaha Hadid Rules !
The thing with Zaha Hadid is that she does not do much theory, or the theory she does is a bout buildings and not cities. Her buildings are about the logical extensions of material and form–so radical in many ways that she is[…]

I was blown away by this last night. It was stunning in so many ways.
The ENO production pushed the humour to the front and the comic foil; Papageno hammed it up to the crowd. There is a lot of character and location movement in The Magic Flute and t[…]

Literary Gems
Journey to the Alcarria ‘ Camilo Jose Cela
In an age before travel writing imposed self-made obstacles and it was possible to explore the world without strapping a fridge to your leg or unicycling blindfolded across the Andes, the[…]

When Titans Clash: Kirby vs Tezuka
Jack Kirby is known as the King among fans of American comics, and it’s fair enough. He was there at the start of superheroes (creating Captain America), he created the first romance comics, the first mystical[…]

What happened to Doomlord’s mask?
(Dez Skinn is too harsh on photo-stories here I feel. If anyone wants to see a full-on feature on the 80s Eagle revival with its photo-strips, just let me know… or it might happen anyway…)[…]

Read Misty online!! – lovingly detailed site dedicated to Misty including reproductions of the original issues! Even if you don’t have time to look at the reprints at least check out the cover gallery.[…]

Girls’ Comics: Dragged screaming from the K-Punk comments box, this link leads to an excellent essay by Miriam Hurst on the British girls’ comics of the 1970s. Hurst makes intelligent points though you can’t go far wrong in this ter[…]

New every Tuesday and this week’s is esp. hilarious. Don’t read the archived strips at work or the boss will ask you what all the howling’s about.[…]

K-Punk on Marvel UK: K-Punk’s had quite a bit of comics content lately – good stuff; it’s nice to find someone else who thinks that the mid-80s British Invasion wasn’t an unambiguous Good Thing. Anyway now he’s onto UK c[…]