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- Whats New for the 14th of April: It’s truly Spring, so go outside and enjoy the warm weather. Really it’s worth doing.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Designing Trolls
- What’s New for the 31st of March: Foxes in fiction; new Americana, Russian folk, Persian, and Nordic music; Justice League comics; Cajun music on film, and more!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Cookbook (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 17th of March: A grab bag of fantasy and folklore including American Gods; some fantastic graphic novels; a grab bag of CDs including Scottish Traveler stories & songs, and folk songs from all over;
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Apple Brandy
- What’s New for the 3rd of March: Mysteries and Murderbot; fiddles Hardanger, nyckleharpa and violin; springy music; rhubarb wine and dark chocolate mousse and a Seabiscuit, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Pub
- What’s New for the 18th of February: More Tolkieniana – non-LOTR stories, letters, references, etc.; music acknowledging Black History Month
- What’s New for the 4th of February: Mostly Tolkien – The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books, films, and even some audio
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Stockpots
- What’s New for the 21st of January: A (mostly) Robin Hood themed edition: Child ballads, scholarly tomes, young readers’ books, comics, movies, and TV series about the bandit of Sherwood; plus The Boy and the Heron, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Irish coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of January: Robert Holdstock and other easonally appropriate books, jazz in winter, real and not-real beer, a poor comic book, cold weather music, and Gary’s music pics of 2023
- A Kinrowan Estate story: New Years Eve
- What’s New for the 24th of December: The Heist; Seasonal music and books; The Polar Express; winter ales; and Christmas Revels
- A Kinriowan Estate story: A Package from Budapest
- What’s New for the 10th of December: A mixed bag of seasonal and other Nordic, Celtic, and British music; omni reviews of late-in-the-year music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hrafnfreistuor (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 26th of November: Music we’re thankful for; fairy tales and myths; a graphic novel about a pandemic; an Old Hag, a Piglet, Canadian television, and hot chocolate!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Greening the Estate (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 12th of November: a grab bag of adult and YA fiction and nonfiction; Russian and Eastern European folk-rock, classical, Celtic, blues music and more; Sons of Anarchy; an intrepid air hostess
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Guy Fawkes Day (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of October: Halloween is Nigh on Us!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Summer afternoon (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 15th of October: Music in fiction and non-fiction; Psycho and its sequels; Two Fat Ladies; some Gaiman; folk music from all over, plus some Zappa and some jazz
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Category Archives: Graphic Literature
Brad Meltzer, Rags Morales, and Michael Bair’s Identity Crisis
Every year on my dad’s birthday, I include in his gift a complete comic mini-series, in graphic novel form, of some old favourite of his from either the DC or Marvel universes. Like me (and most men who were once … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, superheroes
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Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s Baltimore: or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
In the darkest days of World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore, then a Captain in the English Army, watches his men fall in battle. Himself injured, he barely fights off a nocturnal predator, and in doing so, unleashes the unholy … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, horror
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Jamie Delano, Garth Ennis, and Grant Morrison’s John Constantine: Hellblazer: Rare Cuts
Twenty-three years ago John Constantine sprang from the fertile imagination of Alan Moore to become a part of The Saga of Swamp Thing. Two years later, in 1987, Jamie Delano was approached by Vertigo editor, Karen Berger about giving Constantine … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, dark fantasy
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Eddie Campbell’s The Black Diamond Detective Agency
I suppose we’re all suckers for some things. I tend to love nineteenth-century American life depicted with a gritty realism. I have a soft spot for beautifully executed graphic novels, whether the style is loose and painterly or tight and … Continue reading
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Tagged comics
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Jim Butcher and Ardian Syaf’s Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle marks Jim Butcher‘s first foray into a genre near and dear to his heart: comics. This volume collects four individual issues comprising a standalone storyline in the world of Harry Dresden, prefaced by an introduction from … Continue reading
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Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins’s Watchmen Complete, #1-#12
Jasmine Johnston wrote this review. ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?’ (Who watches the watchmen?) – Juvenal Have you ever read a book, a long book, all in one sitting, one gulp, one go? Till your eyes stick with every blink, and … Continue reading
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Marv Wolfman and George Pérez’s Crisis on Infinite Earths
It may seem strange to begin a review by taking a look at the end of the book, but Dick Giordano begins his afterword of DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths with, “Whew, what a read, huh?” (This is the … Continue reading
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Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, editors’ It Was a Dark and Silly Night
Nathan Brazil wrote this review. Across the hemisphere our heroes dash in a flying machine of their own design, when down below in the ravaged tulip fields they spot the herbicidal maniacs. It Was a Dark and Silly Night is … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, comics
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Val McDermid & Kathryn Briggs’ Resistance: A Graphic Novel
I worked for more than 30 years in a state government agency that included the public health department before retiring in, coincidentally, 2021. And for nearly all of that time I heard public health doctors and communicators warning about a … Continue reading
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What’s New for the 7th of January: Robert Holdstock and other easonally appropriate books, jazz in winter, real and not-real beer, a poor comic book, cold weather music, and Gary’s music pics of 2023
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ― attributed to Katharine Hepburn Traditional Central European and Jewish comfort foods are common here in Kinrowan Hall. Mrs. Ware, our Head Cook, says ‘It’s not … Continue reading →