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Titans vs. X-Men 25 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
A Twitter comment from UK artist Randolph Hoyte alerted me to Chris Sims’s Comics Alliance essay on Marv Wolfman and George Pérez’s New Teen Titans. Sims is careful to note that his assessment of that...
The New Didacticism 24 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
The International Reading Association’s Literacy and Social Responsibility Special Interest Group has announced a new award for children’s books: The Social Justice Literature Award. The group’s anno...
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio’s Plan to Avoid Being a Laughingstock 24 Aug 2013 | 02:32 am
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan provided this week’s example of OIP Derangement Syndrome. As quoted by Buzzfeed and elsewhere, Bentivolio responded to a question about presidential impeachment at a ...
The Visual Display of Edward Tufte 23 Aug 2013 | 01:50 am
About a quarter-century ago, I was a young Editorial Assistant at a publishing company, and someone handed me a copy of Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. I already had a ...
What Fell Out of 52 Pickup 22 Aug 2013 | 09:04 am
It was a warm, clear day when I heard that crime novelist Elmore Leonard had died after well over eighty years and forty books. That news reminded me that I’d been meaning to write about the experienc...
Market Report on “Oz Incorporated” 21 Aug 2013 | 07:46 am
Earlier in the summer I caught a performance of Circus Smirkus’s “Oz Incorporated” show. Each year this traveling youth circus has a theme, lately one based on some cultural milieu of the twentieth ce...
Is Analyzing The Killing Joke Like Dissecting a Frog? 20 Aug 2013 | 09:25 am
Retiring Batman scribe Grant Morrison went back on Kevin Smith’s Fat Man on Batman podcast this month and proclaimed his interpretation of The Killing Joke, a landmark graphic novel from 1989. As Robo...
Spotting a Familiar Name 18 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
A few months back there were a lot of pictures of Damian Wayne with Death from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, but I don’t recall having seen this one in my feeds. (Of course, there were a lot.) This picture ...
Wild Goose Egg Chase in Colorado 17 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
In the November 2012 presidential elections, 2,569,516 people voted in Colorado. The Obama-Biden ticket won 51.5% of the state’s vote, with a 137,858 (5.4%) margin over the Republican ticket. When Sc...
Judging Chuck Grassley’s OIP Derangement Syndrome 17 Aug 2013 | 04:05 am
Among the fights quietly going on in Washington is the effort by Republican senators to slow or stop President Barack Obama’s nominations to the federal judiciary. With the President characteristical...
