Category Archives: Biography
Yesterday’s Men
This past week I finished Gerard Jones’s Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. As I had blogged last week, I’ve had this book for several years, but I had just not gotten around to reading … Continue reading
Histories of the High and Low
This past week I finished Matthew J. Costello’s Secret Identity Crisis. As I had discussed in my previous blog entry, this is an insightful look at Cold War politics from the 1960s and into the post-9/11 years and the way that … Continue reading
Reasons to SMiLE
I’ve long been a Brian Wilson/Beach Boys fan–although not a fan of the post-”Brian Is Back” nostalgia-laden direction that the Beach Boys took from the late ’70s to the present day–and like many, I was a sponge for any news … Continue reading
And by the way…
Just a few more comments on Todd Hignite’s The Art of Jaime Hernandez: The Secrets of Life and Death. One of the first things you’ll notice about this book is its introduction, written by Alison Bechdel. She is the creator of … Continue reading
Further Thoughts on Xaime
As I’ve mentioned in this blog previously, I’m in the process of working on an essay centered around Jaime Hernandez’s post-1996 comics–those that were published after the end of the first Love & Rockets series–and the way he deals with issues … Continue reading
Comic Reads
Over the past month and a half, as I’ve been making my way through several Woody Allen-related texts, I’ve also been reading quite a number of comics. Many of those have been superhero or mainstream, and I’ll discuss those in … Continue reading
Royal on Allen on Allen
I just finished Woody Allen on Woody Allen: In Conversation with Stig Björkman, and really enjoyed it. The book is a series of one-on-one interviews, or conversations, between Allen and Björkman that took place in the early 1990s, around the time … Continue reading
More Woody
Lately I’ve been reading quite a bit on Woody Allen. Back in April I re-read Eric Lax’s latest book on the filmmaker, a wonderful collection of interviews thematically arranged, and since then I’ve picked up three other Allen-related texts. The … Continue reading
Various and Sundry
I’ve started several narratives over the past couple of days. One of them is Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, which I began listening to in audio form. It’s been awhile since I’ve picked up a McCarthy novel–the last was Suttree, … Continue reading
Lax Talk
I’ve just finished re-reading Eric Lax’s Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking, and my reaction the second time around is even more positive than the first. This has to be the best conversation-based book on Allen … Continue reading