Paul Pope’s Adam Strange serial was my favorite part of DC’s Wednesday Comics this summer.
From what he says on his blog, those single-page installments shaped his approach to the bit of Dune that you can see full-size here.
Among the things that I particularly liked are Lovern Kindzierski’s desert sky colors and the ornithopter’s squiggly shadow [...]
I’m always a sucker for some revved-up, reimagined folk music, and have been checking out what I can find online by The Imagined Village, who do some great versions of English folk music. (It’s basically Eliza and Martin Carthy, plus assorted members of Afro-Celt Soundsystem, plus Sheila Chandra, plus Billy Bragg, plus even more folks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>Came across a reference to an interesting-sounding book, the Codex Seraphinus, an encyclopedia from an imagined world, in a cryptic alphabet and unknown language, but copiously illustrated.
Wikipedia explains, and here’s a site by an enthusiast.
I tried to summon one up via interlibrary loan, but (alas) the only copy in Maine is apparently non-circulating.
However, a Google [...]
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