lacunaeDouglas Wolk's digital simulacrumthe shilling in the trawl- July 27, 2007 A review of Death Note over at Salon! I'm in San Diego, and... there sure are a lot of people here. My. Really, there are an awful lot of people here. I just took up Idolator's challenge to condense "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" into a limerick in this Zoilus post... only to find that Carl had already done it better....http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000556.html newspapers on "Reading Comics"- July 22, 2007 The reviews are continuing to come in: Steve Duin at the Oregonian! The comics panel at The Onion! Jeet Heer in The Globe and Mail! Lewis Shiner in the Raleigh News & Observer! Michael Sims in the L.A. Times! I'm having a good weekend!...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000554.html more manifestations and more- July 21, 2007 The fabulous Cecil "Seaskull" Castellucci just posted my "mix tape" of ten amazing punk YouTube videos over at Beige Is Punk! My first post at The Savage Critic(s) wasn't about Essential Defenders after all--it's about Giant-Size Marvel Adventures The Avengers 1, except actually it isn't. And thanks to Amadeo over at El Baile Moderno, there's an interview with me in Spanish. The Spanish isn't mine, by the way....http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000553.html READING COMICS virtual errata slip- July 20, 2007 A bunch of errors crept into the first printing of Reading Comics. (I say that in a passive sort of way, but in fact I put all of them there.) In the spirit of Franklin Bruno's Adcidents Will Happen, I figured it'd be wise or at least useful to have a "virtual errata slip" online until I can correct them in future editions. Pg. 83: With regard to the "Journal of MODOK Studies": "MODOK" is a "Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing," not a...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000551.html elephantine reduplication strategy- July 17, 2007 Links keep popping up! Whitney Matheson of USA Today interviewed me for her Pop Candy podcast; there's also a little excerpt from Reading Comics there. Plus a plug for Keven McAlester's Roky Erickson movie! And Nextbook.org has a piece I wrote about Douglas Rushkoff and Liam Sharp's Testament. Gabe Roth has some kind things to say about Reading Comics, too. Thank you, Gabe!...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000550.html upcoming appearances- July 17, 2007 The sidebar usually takes care of this stuff, but I figured I should indicate where I'm going to be over the next month for people who get an RSS feed; more details will be filled in when I've got 'em! July 25-29: Comic-Con International in San Diego July 26: "Drawing Style and Storytelling" panel, 12:30-2 PM (with Darwyn Cooke, Carla Speed McNeil, Colleen Coover, Cameron Stewart, and possibly a special guest--unfortunately, Brian Wood probably won't be able to make it) Signing at...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000549.html "you're thin for someone who likes food"- July 17, 2007 Link time. I contributed today's "Book Notes" entry over at Largehearted Boy--a playlist of 15 songs that are vaguely relevant to Reading Comics. Some of them have YouTube or MP3 links, too! This is also how I learned that I have a Wikipedia entry. (Well, a stub.) Immortality is mine. A review of James Brown's The Singles, Vol. Three over at Pitchfork. And word seems to have gotten around about this, but I've just joined the new All-Star Justice League lineup of The Savage Critic(s)...http://www.lacunae.com/archives/000548.html |