![]() ![]() I scratch it out like the George Grosz of underground comics.” “The story comes out, I have to let it come out. “I don’t censor myself at all,” she told Artforum earlier this year. ![]() Frequently autobiographical, her comics touched on subjects ranging from masturbation to menopause, abortion to adoption, hairy armpits to receding hairlines, and broke ground for generations of women comedians, writers, and comics artists. ![]() Kominsky-Crumb in the 1970s emerged as a comedic and artistic force with comics that unsparingly, often crassly, depicted the complex emotional and physical lives of women. Pathbreaking underground comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb died of pancreatic cancer at her home in the Cévennes region of southern France, at the age of seventy four on November 29. ![]()
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![]() Or Batman, where a universe of characters and storytelling conventions spun out of the simple cause-and-effect of “crime hurt me, so I’ll fight it.” Or Wonder Woman, with the altruism inherent in seeing a world in need of your help and electing to leave the comforts of home to bring about needed change. There is a case to be made for Superman’s elegant simplicity of “he was brought up right” and the multitude of stories you can tell about the upbringing that makes a man good. ![]() There is much, much debate over which superhero has the best origin. This feature was originally published on her site and now continues on Shelfdust!Įveryone, this is G-Dog, and he is perfect. Over the course of a year, Charlotte Finn will be examining this miracle – all 52 issues – as she spends A Year in the Big City. ![]() Astro City, one of the most storied and beloved superhero comics of all time, went through a revival of its own in 2013, and that it came back as strong as ever was a miracle in and of itself. We live in the age of the pop culture revival, and the arrival of the eternal film and movie franchises, all born or borrowing from the model of superhero comics storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexandra can run a scheme like this in her sleep. ![]() She’ll introduce an unexpected third competitor in the mix, one whose meteoric rise-and devastating fall-will destroy Erin’s chances once and for all. With the help of her trusted friend Sam, she devises her most devious plot yet. So when peppy, popular Erin Hewett moves to town and seems to have a real shot at the crown, Alexandra has to take action. Her ambitions are far grander than her small town will allow, but homecoming is just the first step to achieving total domination. She is the queen of Spencer High-and it’s time to make it official.Īlexandra has a goal, you see-Homecoming Queen. She floats through the halls of Spencer High, effortlessly orchestrating the actions of everyone around her, making people bend to her whim without even noticing they’re doing it. ![]() She isn’t nice, but she’s more than skilled at playing the part. Whoever said being nice would get you to the top?Ĭertainly not Alexandra Miles. Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction ![]() ![]() It is like sliding down the outside of a really long glass building while nobody sees you."īook Reviews In 'Olive, Again,' Elizabeth Strout Revisits An Old Friend ![]() Grief is such a - oh, such a solitary thing this is the terror of it, I think. She tells us that in her grief for David "I have felt grief for William as well. Seven years her senior, he is also experiencing unhappy changes in his life (which I'll leave for the reader to discover), and calls on Lucy to help navigate them. But against all odds they have remained friendly. ![]() She'd left William, a parasitologist who has never let the women in his life get too close, after nearly 20 years of marriage. She finds some welcome distraction in revisiting her relationship with her first husband, William Gerhardt, the philandering father of her two grown daughters. In Oh William! Lucy, now 64, is mourning the death of her beloved second husband, a cellist named David Abramson. ![]() Elizabeth Strout's latest, her eighth book, had me at the first line: "I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William." The forthright, plainspoken speaker is Lucy Barton, who we came to love in My Name is Lucy Barton (2016) and Anything is Possible (2017), where we learned how she overcame a traumatic, impoverished childhood in Amgash, Illinois, to become a successful writer living in New York City. ![]() ![]() Ravka is divided into two by a dark void called the Fold, which is populated by shadowy monsters that make passing through it deadly. Shadow and Bone is set mostly in the kingdom of Ravka, a country trapped in an endless war with its neighbors, Fjerda and Shu Han. ![]() And, vitally for a genre series in a time when we’re all pretty much over grim dystopias, the show has a human heart, a rollicking pace, and an honest-to-god sense of humor. ![]() Based on Leigh Bardugo’s popular YA novel series, Shadow and Bone offers a compelling blend of intrigue, romance, and action, steeped in an aesthetic that’s part steampunk, part imperial Russia. the weekend it debuted (behind only Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier). Eric Heisserer’s series was the second most-watched show in the U.S. Last month, Shadow and Bone leapt into that void with arms wide open. And not just any form of the genre - the kind with big-budget effects, deep world-building, tangled romances, and labyrinthine, intertwining plots you can get blissfully lost in. ![]() If there’s one lesson Netflix learned from its runaway 2020 hit The Witcher, it’s this: In these troubled times, the viewing public is voracious for escapist fantasy television. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Rosie learns that her bookstore’s lease has been terminated by Jane’s family’s business, romance moves to the back burner. Jane hasn’t had much luck with her own love life, but her online connection with a loyal reader makes Jane wonder if she could be the one. By night, she puts her steamier side on paper under her pen name: Brie. By day, she works for the family property development business. Jane Breslin works hard to keep her professional and personal lives neatly separated. ![]() She’s struck up a flirty online friendship with lesbian romance author Brie, and what could be more romantic than falling in love with her favorite author? The only thing missing is her own real-life romance like the ones she loves to read about, and Rosie has an idea of who she might like to sweep her off her feet. And ever since she took over her mother’s beloved Manhattan bookstore, they’ve become her home too. From award-winning author Rachel Lacey comes a playful romance about a Manhattan bookstore owner and a reclusive author who love to hate-and hate to love-each other.īooks are Rosie Taft’s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() In both those films, Clark worked alongside Ryan, though they were sometimes antagonistic toward each other. Meanwhile, John Clark was played by Willem Dafoe in The Sum of All Fears while Liev Schrieber portrayed Clark in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Ryan has also been the subject of several films and was played by a number of A-list Hollywood actors: Alec Baldwin was the first cinematic Jack Ryan in 1990's The Hunt For Red October, Harrison Ford played Ryan in 1992's Patriot Games and 1994's Clear and Present Danger, Ben Affleck was a younger Ryan in the 2002 origin story The Sum of All Fears, and Chris Pine took over the role in 2014's reboot Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Jack Ryan is currently portrayed by John Krasinski in Amazon Prime's titular series, which has had two seasons and is in production on season 3. An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife in Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, the explosive origin story of action hero John Clark - one of the most popular characters in author Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan universe. ![]() ![]() Jordan), a black-ops operative who was formerly known as elite Navy Seal Senior Chief John Kelly. Without Remorse, now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, is loosely based on Tom Clancy's 1993 novel and it's a new origin story for John Clark (Michael B. Tom Clancy's Without Remorse has a direct connection to Jack Ryan, although the patriotic spy doesn't appear and isn't mentioned in the new film. Warning: SPOILERS for Tom Clancy's Without Remorse. ![]() ![]() What they have in common are their feelings of elation, pride, confidence, freedom and ecstasy as a direct result of coming out as non-cisgender, and how coming to terms with their gender has brought unimaginable joy into their lives.Ī very necessary anthology! My middling rating is mostly due to my confusion at the structuring - mainly, why nearly 40% of the essays were by the editor when in the introduction she said that each author was "selected above hundreds of other writers" and therefore one can assume there were plenty of texts to choose from. ![]() In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria: an agender dominatrix being called ‘Daddy’, an Arab trans man getting his first tattoos, a trans woman embracing her inner fighter. But for many non-cisgender people, it’s gender euphoria which pushes forward their transition: the joy the first time a parent calls them by their new chosen name, the first time they have the confidence to cut their hair short, the first time they truly embrace themself. ![]() So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. ![]() GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s birth-assigned gender. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The third chapter, “An Operative Theory” analyzes the connection between the translation and the prevailing intellectual concerns during its era and the last chapter, “The Forgotten Translator” situates the translation within the biography of the translator, refuting the notion that he is subordinated to the original author. The second chapter, “Forensic Analysis” looks for clues in the visual, material and textual elements, and asks how they have been remoulded through the entire production process, and what new meanings have emerged from it. The first chapter,“The First Translation”, asks why this book might have attracted translation at that particular moment in history. The bulk of the thesis is structured into four main chapters, each forming an individual arc that inspects this artifact from four distinct angles. In this Masters Thesis for my degree in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices, I launched a deep investigation into a largely influential yet forgotten artifact-a 1936 Chinese translation of Modernist architect Le Corbusier's seminal work, The City of Tomorrow (or Urbanisme in original French), by Chinese Nationalist architect Lu Yu Tsun. ![]() |