Tag: arts
member name: Stephen Frug
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September 18, 2006 09:40 AM EDT --
As any of you who know me know, I'm a big fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- one of the best shows ever to air on TV. (If you haven't watched it... try it. 'Nuff said.) So when I promote a . . .
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March 13, 2007 08:43 PM EDT --
There's something of a comics blogosphere tradition of making lists of 100 things you love about comics. It's a tradition begun, I believe, by Fred Hembeck; continued by Alan David Duane; and done . . .
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April 13, 2007 11:48 AM EDT --
Seventh of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
Some things are so titanically great that we can even loose sight of how amazing . . .
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November 28, 2006 06:12 PM EST --
At Cornell, where I am currently an ABD struggling to finish a dissertation, there is a program known as the First-Year Writing Seminars program. These are roughly the equivalent of the various Freshman . . .
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September 20, 2006 06:03 PM EDT --
So comics genius extraordinaire Scott McCloud is currently on tour to promote his new book, Making Comics. (I previously blogged my initial reaction to McCloud's extraordinary and wonderful new book . . .
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October 29, 2006 11:20 PM EST --
I just stumbled upon a wonderful recording: Orson Welles reading out selections from Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself" (or reading out some poems from the poem-cycle "Song of Myself" . . .
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March 02, 2007 02:28 PM EST --
Part six in a series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here; part four is here; part five is here.
I have come to the third quarter of the "Mothers and Daughters" storyline, . . .
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March 02, 2007 06:35 PM EST --
Part Seven in a series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here; part four is here; part five is here; part six is here.
One of the reasons I was surprised that I was unable to get into . . .
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March 14, 2007 06:06 PM EDT --
Second of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
Paul Chadwick's Concrete is an odd but wonderful series. Beginning with a superhero-style . . .
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March 24, 2007 10:19 PM EDT --
Fourth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
Grant Morrison is widely regarded as one of the greatest of mainstream comics writers . . .
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September 09, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
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This is not a review. It is not a systematic attempt to analyze or evaluate the book under discussion, Scott McCloud's just-out graphic novel* Making Comics, his third nonfiction book** and the . . .
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March 08, 2007 03:33 PM EST --
Part eight in an eight-part series. Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here; part four is here; part five is here; part six is here; part seven is here.
So after all that, am I . . .
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March 13, 2007 08:48 PM EDT --
First of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
City of Glass is a wonderful novel by Paul Auster -- first of a trilogy of which . . .
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March 30, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Fifth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
When I began this series, I made a list of the first few entries I wanted to do . . .
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May 02, 2007 04:44 PM EDT --
Ninth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
One of my concerns when I began this series was that the idea behind it was . . .
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May 14, 2007 12:59 AM EDT --
Tenth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
Links to: an introduction to the series; an index of posts by creator; an index of posts by title.
"Megillat Esther" is the Hebrew term . . .
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March 17, 2007 05:24 PM EDT --
Third of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
The difficulty here is deciding what counts as a 'page'. This 12-panel work . . .
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April 22, 2007 12:38 PM EDT --
Eighth of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
An introduction explaining the idea behind the series is here.
Okay this one's just pretty.
What's interesting about it, however, is . . .
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September 06, 2006 03:32 PM EDT --
(Note: this post is entirely safe-for-work, but it is about a book that isn't, and links to reviews which may contain unsafe-for-work material. I'll try to indicate which, but no guarantees. Key: . . .
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May 17, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
Eleventh of a series of posts about 100 great comics pages.
Links to: an introduction to the series; an index of posts by creator; an index of posts by title.
Howard Cruse's extraordinary Stuck Rubber . . .
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