Saturday, July 4, 2009

"A Waste of Gunpowder and Sky"

Chiffon


The current issue of The Believer (The 2009 Music Issue) has an essay I wrote in praise of The Lawrence Welk Show, a program I've watched since a child. Part of it is available here. The beautiful cover artwork is, as always, by Charles Burns.

Ditko and the Beauty of Abstraction


Although Steve Ditko’s art has always been, in a large sense, representational, his work features some of the most highly abstract cartooning seen in mainstream comics. This is especially true in "The Dimensions of Greed," a story in the anthology Time Warp #3, (March 1980; DC).


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