Author Archives: Noah Berlatsky

The Aardvark in the Closet

I’ve been reading Eve Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet, which is pretty darn brilliant. Her central thesis is: …that many of the major nodes of thought and knowledge in twentieth century Western culture as a whole are structured — indeed … Continue reading

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As It Is Seen By Toads

Since I’ve been talking about Dave Sim, I thought I’d reprint an essay that the man himself hated. This is a review of Jeff Brown’s “Every Girl Is The End of the World for Me.” It first ran in TCJ … Continue reading

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Blake, Dick, Darger, not quite Sim

There’s another endless thread on the TCJ message board about Dave Sim. I was kind of interested in a side-note by Mike Hunter on this page, in which he notes in reference to Sim: “Echoes of “The Religious Experience of … Continue reading

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The First Comic-Book Ever

The first comic-book I can remember reading is World’s Finest #244, which came out in 1977. I would have been six, then, and — if I remember correctly — it was a gift while I was recovering from having my … Continue reading

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Unspeakable Exhibition

Here’s some info about the exhibition of Lovecraft themed art in which my work is being shown: An Exhibition of Unspeakable ThingsWorks inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace BookOpening on Saturday, October 27, 2007, 6 PMat Maison d’AilleursPl. Pestalozzi 14, … Continue reading

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You Are Now Entering Hell — Welcome!

This post is essentially the gallery of Art Young work which appeared in TCJ #273 a while back, though there are a couple of additions and subtractions. My essay from that issue is here. The image at the top is … Continue reading

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Wurdulak

I just saw this Mario Bava movie (one segment of the trilogy “Black Sabbath. I’ve been thinking about proliferating horror movies (ones where one person turns into a monster, then infects someone else, then someone else, etc.) like The Thing … Continue reading

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