The relationship of your nose to your book: adjust ratio, as required

2012-11-29T15:13:07-05:00

On occasion, I have to wonder if perhaps  my grandmother and great-aunts didn't have a point. How many times did they instruct me that I should not, so often, have my nose in a book. Because sometimes I really wonder how I missed something huge. Like, for instance, Robert Lepage's

The relationship of your nose to your book: adjust ratio, as required2012-11-29T15:13:07-05:00

Mariko Tamaki’s Skim (2008)

2012-11-22T09:03:11-05:00

"Being 16 is officially the worst thing I've ever been." That's Kimberly Keiko Cameron (aka Skim) speaking. "Why do the students call you Skim?" her English teacher, Ms Archer asks. "Because I'm not," Skim answers. Adolescence is such a horrid time: you're called what you're not, you want

Mariko Tamaki’s Skim (2008)2012-11-22T09:03:11-05:00

BIP’s Snips: Thoughts on three books

2020-05-21T16:09:05-04:00

Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie's Aya de Yopougon 4 Gallimard, 2008 Read: At the table, because I said that I would use my dictionary to look up all the French words that I don't know (of course I always say that, but I never do) Warning: As the fourth book in

BIP’s Snips: Thoughts on three books2020-05-21T16:09:05-04:00

Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader, Plague Stories

2022-06-14T15:04:53-04:00

What does Captain Trips mean anyway? NY: Marvel Publishing Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Writer Mike Perkins, Artwork Laura Marin, Colourist If you could ask General Bill Starkey he would NOT say 99.4% communicability, 99.4% excess mortality. He can't say that: he works for the government. But that's what it means.

Drawing Conclusions: A Serial Reader, Plague Stories2022-06-14T15:04:53-04:00

Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth Series

2014-03-17T14:18:13-04:00

Jeff Lemire's style is immediately recognizable. The colours are sombre, earthy. Faces are often smudged with shadow. Sometimes entire pages appear to be shadowed. The lines are raw, sometimes inexact. Details in the background are sometimes perfectly drawn, like expertly squared tiles, and other times they are hasty cross-hatchings, a

Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth Series2014-03-17T14:18:13-04:00
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