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Recent Posts
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: All Hallows‘ Eve
- What’s New for the 14th of October: Rolling Stones do Aaron Copland’s ‘A Fanfare for The Common Man’, chilies and chocolate, H.P. Lovecraft, Québécois Style pork pies, Ray Bradbury and Other Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: A Punjabi Meal
- What’s New for the 7th of October: A short story from de Lint, a rare Russian ale, Buffy’s first season, Danish jazz and other cool matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Why Contradances?
- What’s New for the 30th of September: the Two Fat Ladies DVD set, Clifford D. Simak’s City, two de Lint novels, Chinese jades, and other Autumnal matters
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: On Tolkien
- What’s New for the 23rd of September: Earle Stanley Gardner, Concert swag, a China That Never Was, Old Hag tunes, Benjamin Britten, Kedgeree, an Elizabeth Hand novella and other neat stuff
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Chasing Fireflies
- What’s New for the 16th of September: Tull live, a really big chocolate treat, a favourite reading space in Kinrowan Hall, Irish music books, good milk chocolate, live music from De Dannan, an excerpt from de Lint’s Forests Of The Heart and other matters as well
- An Kinrowan Estate Story: Mushroom hunters
- What’s New for the 9th of September: Summer hambos, A Tombstone fiction, Charlie Daniels’ ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’, Junior Superheroes, and other matters of an Autumn nature
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Oh That Biography
- What’s New for the 2nd of September: Steeleye Span’s ‘Robbery With Violins’, New Zealand candy, Colombian music called vallenato, a Benjamin Britten bio, First chapter of James Stoddard’s The High House and Autumn is Coming
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Biscuits
- What’s New for the 26th of August: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Imagine film, Mint juleps, First chapter of an Emma Bull novel, Leonard Bernstein, Aretha Franklin, Peter Beagle on chocolate and other end of summer matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: The Wood, Part II
- What’s New for the 19th of August: an exhibition hall of all things Chinese, Irish music live and reviewed, fantasy reading, a fantasy film, salmon bites and other tasty things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: The Wood
- What’s New for the 12th of August: On Folkloric Matters
- What’s New for the 29th of July: Ravens musical and otherwise, Totem Poles, some novels by Charles de Lint, new music and old music, and Other Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Cranachan
- What’s New for the 22nd of July: The Art of Mouse Guard, Medieval Japan, Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’ and some other possibly odd things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: The Green Lady
- What’s New for the 15th of July: Robert Hunter’s ‘Brown-Eyed Women’, Music that Defies Classification, Indians from Day One, Patricia A. McKillip’s World-building, Gummi Butterflies, and Other Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Palimpsests (A Letter to Justina)
- What’s New for the 8th of July: Kage on Time Bandits, Olivier Greif’s Sonate de Requiem and Trio avec piano, The Haiku of Basho, Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covered Ginger gets panned, Charles de Lint in conversation, A History of Ice Cream and other matters…
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Summer afternoon (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 1st of July: Cash’s ‘Tennessee Flat Top Box’, A Raccoon in a Garbage Can puppet, Mouse Guard short stories and other Summery things
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Strawberry Ice Cream
Tag Archives: graphic novel
J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell’s Danger Girl: The Ultimate Collection
Let’s face it; if you spent your life stealing stuff to make a living, wouldn’t it be tempting to chuck your “career” for a guaranteed gig with a group of save-the-world types? Especially if that group just saved your bacon? … Continue reading
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Danny Bilson, et al.: Red Menace
The collected Red Menace revisits the early 1950s, the heyday of Joe McCarthy and HUAC, when America was paranoid about commie plots and demagogues like McCarthy destroyed lives without much regard for facts. One target was L.A.’s own caped crusader, … Continue reading
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Peter Bagge: Other Lives
Peter Bagge’s best-known series is the award-winning Hate, which should give you some idea of his approach to comics. R. Crumb seems to have been one of the biggest influences on his work, and he has been active in indie … Continue reading
Adam Beechen, Ryan Benjamin, and John Stanisci’s Batman Beyond: Hush Beyond
I’m having a hard time keeping track of all the Batman variants popping up every time I turn around. This time, we’ve got 16-year-old Terry McGinnis, working under the tutelage of the retired and semi-invalid Bruce Wayne in an adventure … Continue reading
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Adam Beechen, Ryan Benjamin, and John Stanisci’s Batman Beyond: Industrial Revolution
You may find this hard to swallow, but there is actually a Batman series out there that I like. In fact, I think it’s pretty good. It’s Batman Beyond, from the team of Adam Beechen, Ryan Benjamin, and John Stanisci, … Continue reading
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Art Spiegelman’s Maus II, And Here My Troubles Began
And Here My Troubles Began is the second volume of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning depiction of his father’s experiences in the Holocaust in graphic novel form. It is the culmination of the story that began in Vol. I, subtitled My … Continue reading
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Art Spiegelman’s Maus, A Survivor’s Tale, Vol. I, My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman’s Maus has made a lot of waves in its 25 years. It was the first (and still the only) comic or graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. In doing so, it brought graphica farther into the mainstream … Continue reading
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