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Friday, August 19, 2011
The title below is discussed in the August 19th Bookreporter.com Newsletter Opener, which can be read here:
UNMEASURED STRENGTH by Laura Manning
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August 22, 2011
Today's featured title is THE CAT'S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje.
In the early 1950s, an 11-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table” --- as far from the Captain’s Table as can be --- with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury.
August 22, 2011
Feature Story: Going Native: Frank Frazetta’s White Indian and the Dynamics of Playing Indian, Part 1 Comments
The name Frazetta is nearly synonymous with comics illustration in the realms of fantasy fine art and masculine heroism. Recently, Vanguard Classics published a collection of Frank Frazetta's earliest sequential art beyond his more widely known oil painting renditions of sword and sorcery tales. Spanning 16 issues between 1949 and 1952, Frazetta's White Indian stories constitute the longest ongoing comic series in the artist's life. As a backup feature for the Durango Kid and other Western titles, White Indian focuses upon a non-Indian, Anglo colonist who abandons the life of a Philadelphia socialite for the vast American frontier to hunt down the murderer of his fiancée.
The Harvey Awards were handed out over the weekend at the Baltimore Comic-Con! Congratulations to all the nominees and especially the winners. Here's a great lineup of graphic works published recently. All are worth checking out!
I'm about halfway through with Craig Thompson's new graphic novel, Habibi, right now. The book is slated for release September 20, but I was lucky enough to get a galley. At more than 650 pages, Habibi is not a quick, short read, and the fact that it is so incredibly, jaw-droppingly amazing is forcing me to take my time with this one.
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