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[…]

CRISIS ON INFINITE PENCILSHARPENERS

(Click for obscene bigness plus obscene fiddliness).
Crisis On Infinite Earth was the big crossover event. It was the first big companywide one, over at DC-Comics and was in itself relatively nonsensical and remar[…]

Why have all the great children’s comics of yesteryear vanished, asks Brandon Robshaw of the Times
Bit of a “Phil Space” article for the Times. Published Jan 1st from “the file” before proper journos came back off holida[…]

Will Eisner, RIP
Vic Fluro, from the recent Top 100 Comics thread: “If you think about Pulp, or Noir, or Detective, or Storytelling, or Action, or Emotion, or Cool, or Titles or Words or Pictures or Anything that actually Works in Comics…[…]