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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Graphic Literature
Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher: All Hell’s A-Coming and Alamo
The final two volumes of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s epic Preacher, All Hell’s A-Coming and Alamo, bring us back to the Quest. In All Hell’s A-Coming, Jesse and Tulip (and Cassidy) are reunited. It hasn’t been an easy time … Continue reading
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Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher: Salvation
Salvation gives us an intermezzo within the story of Jesse Custer’s search for God. In Jesse’s case, the search is literal: he has some things to say to the Almighty. But there are things, it seems, he must do along … Continue reading
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Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher: Dixie Fried and War in the Sun
After the hiatus of Ancient History, the saga of Preacher continues with Dixie Fried and War in the Sun. The overall story line is still Jesse Custer’s search for God, with the express purpose of reading him the riot act … Continue reading
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Garth Ennis, Steve Pugh, Carlos Ezquerra, and Richard Case’s Preacher: Ancient History
And Preacher continues, although the fourth volume of the collected stories doesn’t really move forward. Ancient History is just that — backstory on some of the secondary characters. “Saint of Killers” gives us the origins of that archetypal character — … Continue reading
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Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher: Until the End of the World and Proud Americans
Until the End of the World and Proud Americans are volumes two and three of the collected Preacher, the epic tour of an America that might be by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. Together they encompass the Grail story line … Continue reading
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Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher: Gone to Texas
Preacher is one of those series that was always on my list of things to check out someday. I had a vague idea that it involved some guy walking around in a cowboy duster shooting things up. It’s not that, … Continue reading
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Ray Fawkes’ Gotham By Midnight
As you might have noticed in my review of the DC Showcase’s The Spectre animated short film, I find this DC character fascinating. So I was deeply interested when I heard that DC had announced Ray Fawkes’ Gotham By Midnight, the Gotham … Continue reading
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Tagged Batman, DC Comivs, ghost story, Gotham City, horror
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DC Showcase’s The Spectre
The animation, like those of the Green Arrow and Jonah Hex that I previously reviewed, is some of the best animated work these folks have done over the past twenty years. Here the Los Angeles setting makes the animators strive … Continue reading
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Tagged CD Uinverse, ghosts, Warner Animation
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Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency
Global Frequency is one of the best comics that Warren Ellis has created, a series so interesting that there have two attempts to make a television series out of it. Global Frequency is a organisation devoted to combating those incidents … Continue reading
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Walt Kelley’s Pogo: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, Volume One,1949–1950
We have met the enemy and he is us. — Pogo as quoted in, of course, Pogo Walt Kelley (1913 to 1973) conceived, wrote, and illustrated what many including myself consider the greatest strip of all time, Pogo. Some claim … Continue reading
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