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Elsa
Murió Elsa, allá en el ya lejano 21 de junio del año que ahora termina. Recién ahora me entero, pero bueno, lo que verdaderamente importa es que me viene a la memoria la única vez que la vi. Fue en...
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This Art Form Deserves To Die
Advertising in the Previews Catalog for volume 27 (!) of the Modesty Blaise comic strip reprint collection by Titan Books, September 2015.Imagine that all the world's museums (The National Gallery in...
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This Art Form Deserves To Die - Coda
Carlos Alberto Santos, Mundo de Aventuras (first series) # 1128: "Drama em Orchre [sic] Flat," May 6, 1971 (the issue reprints "Marshall of Ochre Flat," [London] Evening News, December 19, 1968 - April...
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I continue to get rumors coming from the fantasyland that is the comics milieu saying that I'm too dogmatic. So, let me leave you with this tweet for the day: dogmatic is someone who doesn't agree with...
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Kaavad
My Rajasthani Kaavad shrine.A couple of weeks ago I received by mail the most peculiar comic of my comics collection: a Rajasthani Kaavad (see above).Comics writer Vidyun Sabhaney talks about the...
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Daniel Clowes
Daniel Clowes by Rutu Modan, Seth and Anders NielsenDaniel Clowes was profiled at the California Sunday Magazine.I especially liked the ending:Back when the artist attended Pratt, comics fans were...
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Daniel Clowes - Coda
Alfred Stieglitz, Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, 1917.Being completely defeated and tired of preaching in the desert (or, to quote Portugal's greatest writer, preaching to the fish), and don't get me...
View ArticleDwight Macdonald and Pierre Bourdieu
As promissed, in a comment to my last post, I'm quoting Dwight Maccdonald (Against the American Grain, Vintage, 1962, 235, 236):The difference between our positions, of course, is that Mr. [Raymond]...
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Umberto Eco (1932 - 2016)
Guido Buzzelli, Umberto Eco, 1989.Another reference point to The Crib died tonight: Umberto Eco, the author of Apocalittici e Integrati (apocalyptic and integrated intellectuals; Apocalypse Postponed...
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If you are so inclined you may read "The Structure of Bad Taste" here (chapter IX, page 181).
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A Importância de Um "es"
José Tolentino Mendonça resolveu escrever um panegírico fúnebre a Umberto Eco na sua crónica "Que Coisa São As Núvens" da revista E do jornal Expresso de 12 de Março. Acho muito bem! Eis a blurb:Falava...
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Jochen Gerz or The Subtle Passage of Time
A few posts ago I mentioned Narrative Art and Jochen Gerz. Today I want to show you what I meant.Jochen Gerz, 1974.(My translation): The man, a foreigner by birth, spent most of his life in this...
View ArticleHeureux! [All Right!] by Thierry Van Hasselt
Heureux! [All Right] by Thierry Van Hasselt, Julie Rousse and Mylène Lauzon 2008.
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A "Galinha" da SPA
Decorreu no passado dia 22 a entrega de prémios da Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA). Se exceptuarmos a presença de duas figuras ligadas à banda desenhada, João Paulo Cotrim (que até subiu ao palco...
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Since it's been a while since my last post I hope to write something about Robert Kanigher and Alex Toth soon.
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Jochen Gerz's Catalogue Raisonnné Volume II
Jochen Gerz, Catalogue Raisonné Volume II, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2000.I know that I promissed something different, but I just have to advertise this first.On March 17 I wrote on this...
View ArticleAnke Feuchtenberger (music by Felix Kubin), Somnanbule, 2005.
One of the greatest works of art of the 21th century. Chester Brown was this great once (Underwater, anyone?).
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Stolen Art / Arte Roubada
Someone at the Portuguese customs or postal service stole the original art for these two Ray Bailey / Milton Caniff pages (# 13, 14 of Strictly for the Smart Birds, 1951). If you bump into them...
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Terry and Dorénavant
Los Bravú, Terry, Fulgencio Pimentel, 2014.What you see above is the cover of Terry, a great Spanish anthology whichb includes the work of Olivier Schrauwen, Sammy Harkham, Jim Woodring, Michael...
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