5/13/2023 0 Comments The black hole graphic novel![]() As with the others a different editor and designer worked on this volume, Eric Reynolds and Charles Burns himself. Order Online:, Amazon.ca, eBayĪnother high quality Studio Edition from Fantagraphics. ![]() Hypnotically beautiful and horrifying, Black Hole is a genuine American classic and this is the closest most of us will ever get to sitting in the author’s studio. It includes several full chapters from the book as well as selected excerpts that showcase Burns’s impeccable sense of design, composition, and execution. ![]() ![]() While appearing to be in black & white, each page has been scanned in full colour to retain the integrity and fidelity of the actual original art, warts and all. This Fantagraphics Studio Edition showcases Burns’s original art for the book, featuring exact reproductions of over 150 of his original pages, at their actual size. ![]() The premise lends itself to metaphorical interpretations as well as functioning as a perfect outlet to mine teen ennui and puberty-induced anxiety. Set in suburban Seattle during the mid-1970s, it’s the story of a strange plague that has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. Charles Burns’s graphic novel Black Hole is one of the medium’s most iconic works of the 21st century, a towering achievement by a master cartoonist, and perennial classic some 15 years after its initial release. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The star of kazan book![]() The other, secondary characters of this book are also great. Even in the first two or three chapters, you fall in love with this little grey-eyed girl who desperately wants a dog and who loves to act out the stories that she hears, and as the book continues you start to care more and more about her. She's a great heroine - she's simple, honest, extremely brave, kind and imaginative. Annika is one of the reasons to like this book. The Star of Kazan is the story of Annika - a young orphan girl in Vienna, who gets found and adopted by a servant and a housekeeper (Ellie and Sigrid) in the house of three eccentric professors. ![]() Eva Ibbotson is one of my favourite authors, and The Star of Kazan is, in my opinion, her best book. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Underwater dog photography![]() ![]() "Dogs expressing their graceful and goofy selves while swimming.". ![]() "Now we know exactly what to put on our holiday wish list!". "Different from anything you've seen before." - CNN.com In Underwater Dogs, Seth Casteel gives playful and energetic testament to the rough-and-tumble joy that our dogs bring into our lives. Each image bubbles with exuberance and life, a striking reminder that even in the most loveable and domesticated dog, there are more primal forces at work. In more than eighty portraits, award-winning pet photographer and animal rights activist Seth Casteel captures new sides of our old friends with vibrant underwater photography that makes it impossible to look away. From leaping Lab to diving Dachshund, the water is where a dog's distinct personality shines through some lounge in the current, paddling slowly, but others arch their bodies to cut through the water with the focus and determination of a shark. Description The exuberant, exhilarating photographs of dogs underwater that have become a sensation.įrom the water's surface, it's a simple exercise: a dog's leap, a splash, and then a wet head surfacing with a ball, triumphant.īut beneath the water is a chaotic ballet of bared teeth and bubbles, paddling paws, fur and ears billowing in the currents. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Last Bohemians by Kit Kimberly![]() ![]() The film was praised for Luhrmann's direction, the performances of the cast, its soundtrack, costume design, and production values. ![]() Moulin Rouge! premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and was released in theaters on in North America and on in Australia. A co-production of Australia and the United States, it features an ensemble cast starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, with John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Jacek Koman and Caroline O'Connor featured in supporting roles. The film uses the musical setting of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris and is the final part of Luhrmann's " Red Curtain Trilogy," following Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Romeo + Juliet (1996). ![]() It follows a young English poet, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan Satine. Moulin Rouge! ( / ˌ m uː l æ̃ ˈ r uː ʒ/, French: ) is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Takahashi's professional career began in 1978. Kozue Koike often urged his students to create well-thought out, interesting characters, and this influence would greatly impact Rumiko Takahashi's works throughout her career. Under his guidance Rumiko Takahashi began to publish her first doujinshi creations in 1975, such as Bye-Bye Road and Star of Futile Dust. During her college years, she enrolled in Gekiga Sonjuku, a manga school founded by Kazuo Koike, mangaka of Crying Freeman and Lone Wolf and Cub. Though she was said to occasionally doodle in the margins of her papers while attending Niigata Chūō High School, Takahashi's interest in manga did not come until later. Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history well over 100 million copies of her various works have been sold. Her works are relatively famous worldwide, and many of her series were some of the forerunners of early English language manga to be released in the nineties. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Rumiko Takahashi is one of the wealthiest women in Japan. ![]() She has been writing manga non-stop for 31 years. She is also the most successful female comic artist in history. ![]() She is not only one of the richest women in Japan but also one of the top paid manga artists. Rumiko Takahashi ( 高橋留美子) was born in Niigata, Japan. ![]() ![]() The photographs of antique makeup (think gorgeously embellished lipstick tubes) and advertisements (some very sexist to a modern reader) really add to the narrative her. The companies themselves also have short biographies, from Revlon (it wasn’t a good week for them when I was reading this) to Chanel. The book then looks at the role of media in advertising makeup and the initial innovators, such as Max Factor. ![]() Interspersed through the chapters are short biographies of women who were makeup muses, some well known (e.g., Marilyn Monroe) and some not known to me. The book opens by examining three major colours in beauty – and no, pink isn’t one of them – and one isn’t used that much in current trends. Interestingly, the book isn’t structured as you would expect with all makeup discussed chronologically or a discussion of each product. In this gorgeously illustrated hardcover book, Eldridge covers the history of makeup and what things may look like in the future. A highly skilled makeup artist with her own cosmetics line (the lipsticks are brilliant), she also knows a great deal about the history of makeup. To those who really enjoy makeup, Lisa Eldridge is a well-known name. ![]() Why I chose it: Love Lisa Eldridge’s lipsticks and makeup artistry. ![]() The not-so-good: Some topics I wanted to know more about in more depth. The good: Very interesting with some great photographs. In brief: The history of makeup, from colours to the cosmetics and the companies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press.Part two identifies 106 places associated with the city's most famous literary son Book Details Paul by describing his connections to 35 significant places in the city, from his birthplace to the schools, homes, and businesses he knew. Fitzgerald wrote nine Basil Duke Lee stories, eight of. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. The first part of this guidebook tells the story of Fitzgerald in St. 8The stories are listed in a chronology following Basils age. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. In this book, informative biographical detail blends with lustrous vignettes from the fiction of one of the greatest writers in twentieth-century America, offering easy access to over 100 places of interest in Minnesota's capital city. Scott Fitzgerald family rowhouse, located at 599 Summit Avenue. The young writer continued this pattern after his marriage and early popular success. Paul where a lazy Sunday drive along Summit Avenue revealed this surprising bit of news: The F. Fitzgerald's parents moved many times, but they stayed in the same well-to-do city neighborhood. Paul boyhood shaped him-and provided scenery and plots for many of his most successful short stories. Jazz Age parties at the University Club, golfing and dancing at the White Bear Yacht Club. Boyhood pranks in the backyards of Cathedral Hill mansions. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Kafka the cockroach![]() ![]() SB: Nabokov isn’t wrong in terms of basic measurements. SP: You write in your beautiful afterword to this edition that ‘Kafka wanted us to see Gregor’s new body and condition with the same hazy focus with which Gregor himself discovers them.’ What led you to that realization? (Think how wings would change this story!) There’s never any indication in the story that he might have wings hidden in his armored back. Kafka’s word Ungeziefer tells us that Gregor’s a bug of an undesirable sort (you wouldn’t use that word for a cute, helpful insect). Susan Bernofsky: If you want to imagine him as a big cockroach, go ahead, but I myself think the vagueness of his insectness is part of his inhuman condition. How did you initially picture the creature, the first time you read The Metamorphosis? Sumanth Prabhaker: I’ve always imagined Gregor as a giant cockroach, but Nabokov describes him as a three-foot beetle. ![]() ![]() In the leadup to the publication of our Book of Bugs, I reached out to Bernofsky to ask her about Gregor Samsa and the other insects of her reading life. Who among us hasn’t seen the worst of the world reflected back at us in the mirror? Who hasn’t felt the sting of apples on one’s back? Thanks to Bernofsky’s subtle touch, Kafka’s work suddenly felt relatable, nearly private. After years of Richard Dawkins-like grumpiness, I finally revisited Kafka’s The Metamorphosis through Susan Bernofsky’s 2014 translation and discovered it as a whole new creature: sweet, charming, curious, and terrifyingly realistic. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Brian katcher books![]() Still, there's one item school districts in Florida appear to have consistently banned more than almost any other U.S. ![]() It's part of a nationwide push by conservative politicians to draw their battle lines in the culture wars and signal to their constituency that they're decidedly anti-woke. Ron DeSantis' administration and the state's Republican-dominated legislature have instituted a dizzying number of regulations restricting what Floridians can say, read, and scroll through mindlessly. Florida's been banning a lot of things these days.įrom an AP African American studies course to classroom gender-identity discussions to TikTok on university phones, Gov. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pokémon Adventures is translated into English in North America by Viz Media. When Mato became ill and was unable to continue illustrating the series, Satoshi Yamamoto took over as the illustrator and still continues as the series' artist. Mato (真斗) was the illustrator for the first nine volumes. ![]() The series is written by Hidenori Kusaka. Tajiri once stated that the series is closest to how he imagined the universe of Pokémon to be. "Pocket Monsters Special", commonly Pokespe ( ポケスペ / ポケSP) for short) is a Japanese manga series based on the Pokémon media franchise created by video game designer Satoshi Tajiri and managed by The Pokémon Company. Pokémon Adventures ( Japanese: ポケットモンスター SPECIAL, Hepburn: Poketto Monsutā Supesharu, lit. Shogakukan's Separate Grade Learning Magazines (former). ![]() |