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Ecce picturae intra libros: Comics art for the week of 1 May 2013
‘I met Andy Warhol at a really chic party’ / Blow it out your hairdo, ’cause you work at Hardee’s!
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What I bought – 27 February and 6 March 2013
George looked at his granddaughter’s empty suit. He thought of Job. Satan lacked imagination. To crack a man’s faith, one need not resort to burning his flesh, ruining his finances, or any such obvious afflictions. One need only take a man’s species away from him. (James Morrow, This Is The Way The World Ends)
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What I bought – 6 February 2013
“Italians have made the family an extremist group. The family is the instrument of revenge.” (Don DeLillo, from The Names)
What I bought – 9 January 2013
She said, “In every age, there must be truths people can’t fight – whether or not they want to, whether or not they will go on being truths in the future. We live in the truth of what Freud discovered. Whether or not we like it. However we’ve modified it. We aren’t really free to suppose – to imagine – he could possibly have been wrong about human nature. In particulars, surely – but not in the large plan –” (A. S. Byatt, from Possession)
What I bought – 5 December 2012
It came to me that he meant something different by “smile” than I did; that the irony, the humourlessness, the ruthlessness I had always noticed in his smiling was a quality he deliberately inserted; that for him the smile was something essentially cruel, because freedom is cruel, because the freedom that makes us at least partly responsible for what we are is cruel. So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence. (John Fowles, from The Magus)
What I bought – 7 November 2012
Out of the seven days of creation, four were successful and three were unsuccessful. Only one day held sway and made this world a successful world. That was the seventh day, the day of rest, when the Creator did nothing. (Milorad Pavić, from Landscape Painted with Tea)
Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 239: Detective Comics #610
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be looking at four writer/artist duos, as voted on by you, the readers! This week features Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle! Today’s page is from Detective Comics #610, which was published by DC and is cover dated January 1990. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 238: Detective Comics #583
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be looking at four writer/artist duos, as voted on by you, the readers! This week features Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle! Today’s page is from Detective Comics #583, which was published by DC and is cover dated February 1988. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 218: Detective Comics #410
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be looking at four writer/artist duos, as voted on by you, the readers! This week features Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams! Today’s page is from Detective Comics #410, which was published by DC and is cover dated April 1971. This scan is from Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams volume 2, which was released in 2004. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 216: Detective Comics #404
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be looking at four writer/artist duos, as voted on by you, the readers! This week features Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams! Today’s page is from Detective Comics #404, which was published by DC and is cover dated October 1970. This scan is from The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, which was released in 1988. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 214: Detective Comics #395
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be looking at four writer/artist duos, as voted on by you, the readers! This week features Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams! Today’s page is from Detective Comics #395, which was published by DC and is cover dated January 1970. This scan is from Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams volume 2, which was released in 2004. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 155: Detective Comics #34
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks, with each week devoted to comics from one decade. This week’s decade(s): the 1930s/1940s! Today’s page is from Detective Comics #34, which was published by DC and is cover dated December 1939. This scan is from The Batman Chronicles volume 1, which DC published in 2005. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 66: Detective Comics #529
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. Today’s page is from Detective Comics #529, which was published by DC and is cover dated August 1983. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 8: Detective Comics #620
Every day this month, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. Today’s page is from Detective Comics #620, which was published by DC and is cover dated late August 1990. Enjoy!
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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 3: Detective Comics #748
Every day this month, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. Today’s page is from Detective Comics #748, which was published by DC and is cover dated September 2000. Enjoy!
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