Cartoonist ‘jailed’ over Jesus comic: Comics in the US are often picked as easy targets for testing offence and blasphemy laws – disappointing to find that the same may be true in the EU. Of course, based on the news story’s s[…]

There is little point in linking this HA HA – ART IS RUBBISH story on the BBC website, except for the fact that it appears that house style has been driven to extremes. The actual story itself is a classic Philstinian piece about dustmen being […]

COMICS: AN INTRODUCTION
(If you already read comics, you know all of this anyway. Let this serve as a warning to the curious.)
I’ve been reading Marvel and DC comics – ‘mainstream comics’, if you like – again for a few m[…]

Cat’s Out of the Bag, Back in the Store Room
A rumour (Tyler Greene on the usually too clever for his own good Modern Art Notes, is the only thing on paper so far) has been floating that the new MOMA is so over grown and so badly designed for c[…]

bloggin eggheads crooked timber discuss lefty fantasy-maker china mieville:
(i haven’t read this yet so can i just for now register my sadness that the essay’s 1st x-hed aint TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM)[…]

Just a Bit of Fun[…]

SCREAM IF YOU WANNA THWART THE MENACE OF IMPULSATIA

“To thwart the menace of impulsatia, they probed the endless voids of hyperspace”[…]

some themes in tintin:
Sistrah Becky gave me L’Oreille Cass’e for xmas and i am rereadin the whole lot – viz things of note posted on ILC so far, inc. tintin’s hopelessness at tying ppl and (as raise by tuomas) the Changing N[…]

Defaced
I’ve always been in two minds (ha ha Janus-faced) about writing in books. On the one hand I’m suspicious of the fetishism of trying to keep a page clean, rather than treating a book as a machine for thinking (and for living, which[…]

HIDDEN LONDON: Buckingham Palace and the Mall:
ok this is hardly “hidden” in the (surely played out?) iain sinclair/psychogeographical d’rive sense, but in 22 years as a londoner i only once before looked at BH in the flesh, and th[…]