Whatever happened to Uncle?: fine article from the Economist on the neglected children’s classic beloved of some Freaky Trigger writers. I think they’re basically right about the books and why they don’t sell – Uncle is a very[…]

Extraordinary late entry from Challenge Business.[…]

Around the time of her death about two years ago, Agnes Martin became less subtle, and started using colours and shapes that in her previous painterly practice would strike as unusual, even shocking. (if you have painted grey lines on beige paper for[…]

And it’s great! Really childish, really fun, scattershot crazyness. He’s obviously a bit of a goth*, but there are a lot worse problems of some other creators i admire.
I buy so few comics any more, but with a little time to kill the othe[…]

Yes, yes – the bad sex award. All very TITter-worthy and purient, and in many ways deserved : (Fustar takes pains to look at the Giles Coren bit). Nevertheless for all this jocularity, it does tend to ignore the fact that describing sex is actu[…]

No, actually, his ghost. Haunting a coffee machine![…]

Not me!! Honest. My only familiarity with Dreiser is his use as a BIG STICK for G Groth to beat the readers of The Comics Journal with. Here we see my namesake blogging Dreiser’s works – and encountering a TROLL! Quite a verbose troll too[…]

Two miles from Robert Smithson’s large spiral jetty, is an even larger spiral jetty. One is art, about land use and geographic history, and the epic interference with the land. It is a masterpeice, dependent on the rise and fall of the great sa[…]

I did a small item on this series when it started. I’m not sure how much it’s my state of mind and how much it’s the creative team of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima finding their range, but volume 6 struck me as much the best yet, an[…]

I prefer the Primula vs Kraft debate, but nethertheless Stephen Grant here explains why its a bit of a red herring in his opinion in the comics world. Its a nicely balanced piece, clearly going via the detour of punk (well of course) and has the kind[…]