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 “Garth Nix” from The Cultural Gutter
Smooth, Smoother, Smoothest
I get sucked in very easily by books that are smooth on the surface. If a book has glossy enough writing and a well-paced storyline, then I'm almost always a sucker for it. But when a book also has something intriguing going on underneath the surface, then I feel like my optimism has been rewarded - and that's when I really love a book. Enter Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief.
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Stories Never Fail Us
She's eighteen and she's getting a little impatient with life at her boarding school. She doesn't see her stepdad very often. She knows more about magic than the teachers at Wyverly College, but even though the school is within twenty miles of the Wall that separates mundane from magical lands, she's never been in the Old Kingdom. Her name is Sabriel.
Then one night a dead creature stalks into the dormitory. This is a messenger, who brings her father's magic bells and Charter-marked sword. If her dad's not already dead, then he's being held somehow near one of the nine gates that separates life from death. Sabriel has to find her father's body, somewhere in the deadly Old Kingdom, and then retrieve his spirit. All in a day's rite of passage.
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Smooth, Smoother, Smoothest
I get sucked in very easily by books that are smooth on the surface. If a book has glossy enough writing and a well-paced storyline, then I'm almost always a sucker for it. But when a book also has something intriguing going on underneath the surface, then I feel like my optimism has been rewarded - and that's when I really love a book. Enter Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief.Stories Never Fail Us
She's eighteen and she's getting a little impatient with life at her boarding school. She doesn't see her stepdad very often. She knows more about magic than the teachers at Wyverly College, but even though the school is within twenty miles of the Wall that separates mundane from magical lands, she's never been in the Old Kingdom. Her name is Sabriel.
Then one night a dead creature stalks into the dormitory. This is a messenger, who brings her father's magic bells and Charter-marked sword. If her dad's not already dead, then he's being held somehow near one of the nine gates that separates life from death. Sabriel has to find her father's body, somewhere in the deadly Old Kingdom, and then retrieve his spirit. All in a day's rite of passage.
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