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September 19, 2011
By vommarlowe
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Avatar the Last Airbender: a very fun American anime! (kind of)

Flying bison! Bat eared flying lemurs!

August 26, 2011
By vommarlowe
Blog
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Waterlilies: Paintings in Context

Those paintings took up so much space it was like the whole world had gone blue and green and full of light and weedy flowers and if you got close you could see all these brushstrokes.

Illustrated Wallace Stevens — Hibiscus on the Sleeping Shores

Text by Wallace Stevens; Art by Vom Marlowe.

The Roundtable Has Pants: Pantless Pants

Being a critic is kind of like writing an autobiography. It’s an arrogant act to say, Listen to meeeee, for what I say is important! The thing is, what I say isn’t all that important. I’m not going to be in the majority on this one, and I doubt that many people will care about [...]

February 3, 2011
By vommarlowe
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Endless Comfort: the sweetest yaoi ever

Endless Comfort, Sakuya Sakura, June Manga. I admit it up front–I bought this manga for the plucky great danes on the cover. Look at these faces! (Note the dark grey nose at the far right, just peeking into the frame!) The art isn’t bad, either, and I enjoy yaoi, but it’s the dogs that got [...]

January 20, 2011
By vommarlowe
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Loveless Ink

This is an exploration of how Kouga’s inks and composition show character and mood in the first volume of Loveless. The art style shifts with point of view and interactions, building into a powerful visual language. I have mixed feelings about Loveless. It’s a hot mess in a lot of ways. The story contains horrible [...]

January 7, 2011
By vommarlowe
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There’s zombies in my yarn

Intro A couple of years ago, I was in a van full of librarians, being whisked in air conditioned splendor to the convention hall at ALA. I got to talking to my seatmate, a public librarian, and she told me that the most interesting thing she’d heard so far was that zombies were going to [...]