On HU

Our Featured Archive post this week is Anja Flower on queerness and Edward Gorey.

I had a post on love, marriage, and saying goodbye to my father in law.

This week was almost entirely devoted to our Godard roundtable, organized by Caroline Small. The index to all posts so far is here. The roundtable will continue through next week.

At the end of the week I snuck in a post about Ella, Enchanted, the book.
 
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At Splice Today I had a post about avant disco performer Arthur Russell.

Also at Splice, a piece about why it’s okay for eight-year-olds to tell Michelle Bachman she’s an idiot.
 
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Shannon Smith’s twitter feed is really enjoyable.

Robert Stanley Martin is translating The Divine Comedy and has a new section up.

Alyssa Rosenberg contemplates the incompetent marketing of Marvel and D.C.

And some art inspired by Godard’s Pierrout Le Fou.
 

On HU

This week’s featured archive post, Richard Cook looks at portrayals of East Asians in comics covers.

James Romberger on Fantagraphics new Alex Toth collection.

I talk about superheroes, the good, the powerful, and Ben Saunders’ book Do The Gods Wear Capes?

Tom Crippen curates another gallery of work by illustrator and cartoonist Bob Binks.

We highlight some comments by Monika Bartyzel on Bella, Buffy, Katniss, femininity and feminism.

I talk about feminism, love, and obedience in the film Ella, Enchanted.

Erica Friedman on the sublimely pretentious gittery of food manga.
 
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At the Atlantic I talk about the new film Shame, and why porn is less offensive than male angst.

At Splice I explain why I may vote for Mitt Romney in the Republican primary.

And also at Splice I review the 70s Korean psych rock classic Now, by Kim Jung Mi.

 
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Excerpts from Marc Singer’s new book on Grant Morrison.

Eleanor Barkhorn on how Twilight finally lost her.

Tucker Stone blogs through TCJ #38.

And more Tucker, this time with high quality industry snark.
 
 

On HU

I posted two related reviews: one of Bjork’s recent album Biophilia and one of the soundtrack to the 1979 BBC series Life on Earth.

Sina Evil discussed Robert Kirby and gay alternative comics.

Kailyn Kent reviews the Lyonel Feininger exhibit at the Whitney.

I posted a free merengue mix download.

Tom Crippen posted a gallery of work by illustrator and cartoonist Robert Binks.

And the rest of the week was off for eating turkey and celebrating imperialism.

Also, there’s been a fun discussion of twilight and feminism going on all week.
 
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At Splice Today I talk about delivering the eulogy for my father in law.
 

On HU

In our Featured Archive post this week, James Romberger discusses the critique of Christianity in the work of artist David Wojnarowicz.”

I talk about decadent viewers and decadent villains in 13 Assassins.

Sina Evil on Gay Ghetto comics.

I reviewed Marston/Peter Wonder Woman #25.

Robert Stanley Martin on Julian Barnes’ Sense of an Ending.

Nadim Damluji interviews Craig Thompson about Habibi and Orientalism.

I compare Kyrli Bonfiglioli’s All the Tea in China to Peter Carey’s The True History of the Kelly Gang.

I talk about Bella, Katniss and (fear of?) femininity. (Caroline Small makes a special guest appearance.)

I explain why Obama is no Khruschev.
 
 
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At the Atlantic, I had a post about Twilight and the Hunger Games.

At Splice Today I argue that Herman Cain’s campaign does not mean that ideology has trumped racism.

Also at Splice I talk about frame stories and narrative in How To Train Your Dragon. (Also why it’s better than Harry Potter.)
 
 
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Shanenon Garrity asks various folks (including me) what comics adaptations they would and would not like to see.

Ty Templeton’s blog is really entertaining.

Rod Dreher on empathy and justice in light of the Penn State scandal.

Tucker Stone with a long interview with Mark Waid.

On HU

Featured archive post: Lilli Carré’s animation for a Wallace Stevens poem.

Dan Kois on Lynda Barry’s pedagogy.

Marguerite Van Cook talks about comic book crowd scenes and the Kantian sublime.

Caroline Small on comics, writing, and reading.

Joy DeLyria on reboots and retrogarde representations of women, looking especially at Star Trek and Nolan’s Batman.

I talk about natural creativity and wearing your mother’s skin.

I talk briefly about Wonder Woman’s new origin. Extra fun: see me get slapped about in comments.

Richard Cook on Argento’s Deep Red.

I review an anthology of stories in Kafka’s spirit which for that reason aren’t really in Kafka’s spirit.

Vom Marlowe talks about the ALA and rubber chickens.
 
 

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At Splice Today I argue that Khruschev was more honorable and courageous than Obama.
 
 
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Laurie Penny talks about harrassment of women on the internet.

Why Andy Rooney is an idiot.

Goodbye to the Giant Squid.

Matthias Wivel on the crisis at L’Association.

Eric Berlatsky reviews the new anthology of Charles Schulz’s prose.

Anja Flower pointed me in the direction of this pretty great essay by Susan Stryker about Frankenstein and transgender people.

James Romberger interviews Gary Groth about the new Fanta collection of Barks comics.

On HU

In our Featured Archive post this week Ryan Sands talks indie manga.

Contra Steven Pinker, I express skepticism that the world is getting less violent.

Ng Suat Tong provides annotations to Jaime Hernandez’s The Love Bunglers.

I talk about snails and fecundity in Junji Ito’s Uzumaki.

Nathan Atkinson argues that tcj.com’s uncritical enthusiasm for Jaime Hernandez is necessary and unfortunate.

Erica Friedman explains answers the question what’s the big deal about sailor moon?

I talk about how my people (that’s Jews) love the folk music.

I argue that the politics of art is about how it makes you spend your time.

A doomy death metal download mix for your listening pleasure.

Caroline Small argues that comics creators need to read more.
 
 
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At Splice Today I review a collection of stories inspired by Kafka which are in fact not much like Kafka.

At the Washington Times I review Miranda Lambert’s new album

At Splice Today I talk about the Coffins and international death metal.
 
 
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Nate Silver on Herman Cain and expert judgment.

Jog on old horror comics.

C.T. May on Mitt Romney’s eyebrows.

Casey Brienza on gender in superhero comics.

A thoughtful discussion of Orientalism in Habibi.
 
 

On HU

Our Featured Archive post this week was Domingos Isabelinho on the mother/daughter art of Dominique Goblet and Nikita Fossoul.

Most of this week was devoted to our roundtable on the Drifting Classroom, with contributions by Jason Thompson, Shaenon Garrity, Sean Michael Robinson, Richard Cook, Joe McCulloch,and me.

We also had a dialogue about Jaime Hernandez, soap operas and Quentin Tarantino, which starts with this post by Caroline Small, wends its way through a massive number of comments, and continues with this post by Katherine Wirick.
 
 
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I talked about Bjork and Life on Earth at Splice Today.

I discuss In Time and capitalist dreams at the Atlantic.
 
 
Other Links

Franklin Einspruch on excellence in art.

Chris Mautner on DC’s 52/

TCJ has an intersting looking habibi roundtable.

Eric Berlatsky (aka “my brother”) talks about his anthology of Alan Moore interviews.

And here’s the horror Manga Movable Feast archive post, which our Drifting Classroom roundtabl