The Inversion of Ambition: Creativity, Comics & Careers
• 05/07/2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Essay-Type Stuff
Tags: Action Philosophers, All Star Superman, Amazing Spider-Man, Asterios Polyp, Comics, FF, Grant Morrison, Harvey Pekar, Jamie McKelvie, Jonathan Hickman, Keiron Gillen, Logicomix, Neil Gaiman, Pax Romana, Phonogram, Phonogram: Rue Britannia, Phonogram: The Singles Club, Pledge Music, Rocket Hub, The Nightly News, Uncanny X-Men, We3, Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader?
One-Hundred Ten Word Reviews
• 15/04/2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Just... Stuff, Organisational Stuff, Review Stuff
Tags: Sherlock Holmes, Michael Cera, Studio 60, The West Wing, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, All Star Superman, Norwegian Wood, Stewart Lee, Sucker Punch, C, Tom McCarthy, Oscar Wilde, Lolita, Tao Lin, Arrested Development, The Man in the High Castle, One-Hundredth Post, Reviews, Vladimir Nabokov, Red Dead Redemption, My Idea of Fun, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Will Self, Battle Los Angeles, Philip K. Dick, Johnny Vegas, Who's Ready For Ice Cream?, She Like Electric, Smoosh, On Monsters, Stephen T. Asma, Dollhouse, The Pale King, Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, Source Code, Duncan Jones, Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, Funny People, Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Adam Sandler, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, The Maltese Falcon, Paul, Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, Haruki Murakami, The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Easy A, Fallout: New Vegas, Who Killed Amanda Palmer, Amanda Palmer, Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, Bastard, Tyler the Creator, The Third Man, Uncharted 2: Drake's Fortune, T.S. Eliot, Black Books, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part One, A Void, Georges Perec, Phonogram, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Wonders of the Universe, Brian Cox, Stacking, Doublefine, True Story Swear To God, Tom Beland, Flight of the Conchords, Planetary, Warren Ellis, John Cassaday, Laura Martin, How TV Ruined Your Life, Charlie Brooker, The Trip, Rob Brydon Steve Coogan, RED, Alphabetical Africa, Walter Abish, The Perfect Fool, Vegetable Stew, Automatic Kafka, Joe Casey, Ashley Wood, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Aaagh! It's The Mr. Hell Show, We3, Treme, Bible's Buried Secrets, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Steven Sherrill, Eeeee Eee Eeee, Talking With Gods, Willie Master's Lonesome Wife, William H. Gass, Eunoia, Christian Bök, Oulipian, Peep Show, Boy In Da Corner, Dizzee Rascal, Outcasts, Kathy Acker, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Enter The Void, Gaspar Noe, The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga, The Outsider, Albert Camus, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Dr Strangelove or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, Flex Mentallo, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, A Clockwork Orange, The Lord of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Limitless, The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, Due Date, Beloved, Toni Morrison, Lanark, Alasdair Grey, Rear Window, His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman, Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Felicia Day, Neil Patrick Harris, Kama Sutra, Mystery Team, Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn, Trying Is Good, Josie Long, Box of Secrets, Blood Red Shoes, Reading "Lolita" in Tehran, Azar Nafisi, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Kat Dennings, 2666, Roberto Bolaño, Novels in Three Lines, Félix Fénéon, The Birds
A New More Magical Me: Reading Grant Morrison & Austin Osman Spare
• 13/03/2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in Essay-Type Stuff, Just... Stuff
Tags: All Star Superman, Arkham Asylum, Austin Osman Spare, Automatic Drawing, Automatic Writing, Batman R.I.P., Grant Morrison, Hypersigil, Magic, POP MAGIC!, Psychic, Sigil, The Disinformation Book of Lies, The Invisibles
Look! Up in the Sky… Superman: Earth One
• 07/11/2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Essay-Type Stuff, Review Stuff
Tags: Action Comics, All Star Superman, Clark Kent, Comics, Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, J. Michael Straczynski, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Shane Davis, Superman, Superman: Earth One
