I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “England” from The Cultural Gutter
A Little Busier Thinking about Comics
In fact, how about another piece by Colin. This one suggests that Warren Ellis' The Authority has a lot in common with SuperFriends., writing that it is "the last true heir of the Silver Age." That boom you hear is Warren Ellis' head.
Too Busy Reading About The Secret Six.
Too Busy Thinking About My Comics has some excellent analysis of The Secret Six. In fact, the blog has plenty of excellent analysis of plenty of comics. And, as the mission statement reads, "It's not the reading of comic books that can threaten friendships
and derail marriages. It's the unintended, casual babbling about comic
books that does."
LEGO Harry Potter Trailer
Gamers and Harry Potter fans rejoice! It's the LEGO Harry Potter trailer! (thanks, Dan!)
Even chavs like it
Amazing British series Misfits features a work crew of juvenile delinquents who get zapped by the ol' superpower-endowing lightning. Despite the well-worn premise, excellent snappy dialogue, cultural specificity and fresh twists makes this the first SF dramedy I've been excited about in ages.
"Make Steam Not War"
England's own clockwork soldier has the temerity to protest conscription, reported in The London Bell, May 12, 1887.
Vive La Difference!
Britain and France have a long history together. Okay, much of that history consists of having wars with one another. But if you look at the past as a whole, having wars is pretty much what Britain did. First, it fought at home, its various tribes jockeying for position, struggling with invaders, taking over other tribes. Then later, after it discovered sailing as a disciplined science, Britain took that fight around the world. An international hello, so to speak, but with a punch in the face, rather than a civil greeting.
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Alan Moore Knows The Score
“It's nice to hear all the old songs,
isn't it?”
--the Devil, The Black Rider
I was surprised to hear the old songs
in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen Century: 1910 (Top
Shelf, 2009). I probably shouldn't have been. The chapter title, “What Keeps Mankind Alive”
distracted me, but I kept
reading my water-damaged copy and ran smack into, “Mack
the Knife.” Like the chapter title, it's a song from Bertolt
Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
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It's the End of the World as we Know It
Remember Y2K? All those pre-New Year’s warnings about what might happen to the world’s computer systems? People were pretty calm about it, but many thought, hey, better safe than sorry, and stocked up on toilet paper and non-perishables. But as it happened, the giant looming what if turned out to be nothing, and the world was utterly uninterrupted. There were some spectacular fireworks, sure, but there were also white sales, air traffic control, and neo-natal care. Life, in short, went on as usual.
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"This Book is Too Long!"
I know of many fantasy readers (myself sometimes included) who pick what book to read next based on how long it is - for epic fantasies, the longer the better. Books like this are a huge commitment though, and so for a lot of people, the fact that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is over 800 pages long outweighs everything else about it. Does Susanna Clarke tell a good story? Is there any neat magic? If the book is too long for you to get past the first 100 pages, you might never know.
Continue reading...
A Little Busier Thinking about Comics
In fact, how about another piece by Colin. This one suggests that Warren Ellis' The Authority has a lot in common with SuperFriends., writing that it is "the last true heir of the Silver Age." That boom you hear is Warren Ellis' head.Too Busy Reading About The Secret Six.
Too Busy Thinking About My Comics has some excellent analysis of The Secret Six. In fact, the blog has plenty of excellent analysis of plenty of comics. And, as the mission statement reads, "It's not the reading of comic books that can threaten friendships and derail marriages. It's the unintended, casual babbling about comic books that does."LEGO Harry Potter Trailer
Gamers and Harry Potter fans rejoice! It's the LEGO Harry Potter trailer! (thanks, Dan!)Even chavs like it
Amazing British series Misfits features a work crew of juvenile delinquents who get zapped by the ol' superpower-endowing lightning. Despite the well-worn premise, excellent snappy dialogue, cultural specificity and fresh twists makes this the first SF dramedy I've been excited about in ages."Make Steam Not War"
England's own clockwork soldier has the temerity to protest conscription, reported in The London Bell, May 12, 1887.Vive La Difference!
Britain and France have a long history together. Okay, much of that history consists of having wars with one another. But if you look at the past as a whole, having wars is pretty much what Britain did. First, it fought at home, its various tribes jockeying for position, struggling with invaders, taking over other tribes. Then later, after it discovered sailing as a disciplined science, Britain took that fight around the world. An international hello, so to speak, but with a punch in the face, rather than a civil greeting.
Continue reading...
Alan Moore Knows The Score
“It's nice to hear all the old songs,
isn't it?”
--the Devil, The Black Rider
I was surprised to hear the old songs in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910 (Top Shelf, 2009). I probably shouldn't have been. The chapter title, “What Keeps Mankind Alive” distracted me, but I kept reading my water-damaged copy and ran smack into, “Mack the Knife.” Like the chapter title, it's a song from Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera.
Continue reading...It's the End of the World as we Know It
Remember Y2K? All those pre-New Year’s warnings about what might happen to the world’s computer systems? People were pretty calm about it, but many thought, hey, better safe than sorry, and stocked up on toilet paper and non-perishables. But as it happened, the giant looming what if turned out to be nothing, and the world was utterly uninterrupted. There were some spectacular fireworks, sure, but there were also white sales, air traffic control, and neo-natal care. Life, in short, went on as usual.
"This Book is Too Long!"
I know of many fantasy readers (myself sometimes included) who pick what book to read next based on how long it is - for epic fantasies, the longer the better. Books like this are a huge commitment though, and so for a lot of people, the fact that Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is over 800 pages long outweighs everything else about it. Does Susanna Clarke tell a good story? Is there any neat magic? If the book is too long for you to get past the first 100 pages, you might never know.
