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- 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
- What’s New for the 12th of October:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Tunes
- What’s New for the 1st of the October: Horror, time travel, murder and fantasy, and comics journalism; personal Scandinavian jazz, ancient Persian songs, bluegrass, Americana, and a podcast; Johnny Cash on TV; chocolate and empanadas
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Béla
- What’s New for the 17th of September: WWII (and other) mysteries; jazz, Americana, Celtic music and more; Doc Martin; summer beer and ale
- A Kinrowan Estate story: My Library
- What’s New for the 3rd of September: Gary pens a short tribute to Jimmy Buffett, New jazz and Americana music, a grab bag of styles from the archives, books about English folk rock, books about breakfast and brunch, a black and white world, a panned comic, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the 20th of August: Some favorite mysteries; jazz, country, RT, and a musical grab bag; a hoedown, a big dragon, Hellboy, and of course ice cream!
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Guest Lecturer
- What’s New for the 6th of August: Weird westerns and singing cowboys, Jane Lindskold and two from Patricia McKillip; ska, Spanish jazz, klezmer, and songs about fishing; Mary Poppins and lonely Vampires, Roman emperors and superheroes; and a couple of Oregon ales in a British style pub
- What’s New for the 3rd of September:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Chasing Fireflies
- What’s New for the 23rd of July: Books by Roger Zelazny; Scottish music, SCOTS music, dance music and Asian Underground; chocolate-peanut butter cookies, rock poster art, and a little primal horror
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: A Theological Anthropologist
- What’s New for the 9th of July: All Sorts of Good Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Musical Ganeshas (A Letter to Svetlana)
- What’s New for the 25th of June: Steeleye Span edition
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Danse Macabre (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 11th of June: Space Opera, Folkmanis Rat in a Tin Can, Lots of folk rock – Steeleye Span, Orthodox Celts – Maddy Prior interview, some contradance and some bluegrass; a catty film review; Vess’s Ballads & Sagas; and some new Norwegian folk rock
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Reading Groups (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 28th of May: All Sorts of Interesting Reviews, Page and Plant’s ‘Kashmir’ and Kage’s Favourite Folk Song
Category Archives: Graphic Literature
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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Tagged comics, pandemics
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G. Willow Wilson and M.K. Perker’s Air: Letters from Lost Countries
Blythe is not your typical airline attendant. Sure, she’s blonde, pretty and personable, playing into every conceivable stereotype there is. But Blythe is much more than that. For starters, she’s acrophobic, surviving each flight only through the wonders of modern … Continue reading
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Tagged comics
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Joe Sacco’s Palestine: The Special Edition
This lovely edition of Joe Sacco’s classic graphic novel Palestine is being promoted as “celebrating fifteen years of . . . Joe Sacco’s groundbreaking work of comics journalism.” So, it’s not a graphic novel? It’s “comics journalism.” OK, I’ll buy … Continue reading
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Tagged comics
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Chester Brown’s Louis Riel: A Comic Strip Biography
In the USA, history has been used as a basis for all sorts of entertainment. Novels, films and television shows have long been built out of the legends of American history. And so American history might have been distorted in … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian history, comics, history
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James Lee, Scott Williams, et al’s Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday (Books 1 & 2)
Part of the problem with Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday, is that we’ve seen it before, and better. We’ve seen it with the Beyonder, for one. Molecule Man, for another. Any comics junkie is going to be more … Continue reading
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Tagged superheroes
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Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: The Companion
Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola (writers) and Mike Mignola (illustrator) It’s really hard to do a companion to a long running series well. Roger Zelazny’s The Amber Chronicles was well served by Theodore Krulik’s The Complete … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, Hellboy
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Jeff Smith’s SHAZAM! The Monster Society of Evil
First, a few brief items from the Full Disclosure Department: as a kid, my favorite superhero was Captain Marvel. I read a lot of his comics, watched his Saturday morning TV show (coupled with “Isis”), and when I was in … Continue reading
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Tagged superheroes
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Paul Grushkin & Dennis King’s The Art of Modern Rock
A long time ago, more years than I’d like to count, I was the assistant editor of my high school yearbook. Okay, it was 1968 and we had an art editor who was deeply influenced by the posters coming from … Continue reading
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Tagged poster art, rock and roll
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Paradox Press: An omnibus review of The Big Book Of … series
Jonathan Vankin’s The Big Book of the ’70s (Paradox Press, 2000) Jonathan Vankin’s The Big Book of Bad (Paradox Press, 1998) Doug Moench’s The Big Book of Conspiracies (Paradox Press, 1995) Bronwyn Carlton’s The Big Book of Death (Paradox Press, … Continue reading
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An interview with Michael William Kaluta
Ian Nicholas Mackenzie here. I took a break from working on our upcoming Brian and Wendy Froud edition to talk in the Pub over a few pints of Guinness with another master artist, Michael William Kaluta. Green Man Review: Why … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, fantasy, science fiction
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