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- What’s New for the 27th of October: The Byrds Live, Trader Joe’s Organic Hot Cocoa Mix, Some Excellent Music Reviews, Folkmanis Puppets of an Autumnal Nature, The Mouse Guard begins…
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 13th of October: Elizabeth Bear tends a pot of turkey stock, Groot and Rocket Raccoon, A Video and Fiction set in India, Tasty music reviews, and music from Irish trad band Clannad
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Autumn is Here (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of September: Louisiana’s Lost Bayou Ramblers, live music by Kathryn Tickell, Ottawa based urban fantasies by Charles de Lint, Norwegian saxophonist Karl Seglem, Gus on the Estate Kitchen garden and other Autumnal matters
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- What’s New for the 1st of September: A grab bag of books, music, and film that touch on the theme of work
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Breakfast, Korean Style
- What’s New for the 4th of August: A raft of Cuban music reviews; Trader Joe’s chocolate peanut butter cookies; Looking at J.R.R. Tolkien; And a Cuban band documentary
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- What’s New for July 21st: All music — books on The Pogues, Sandy Denny, Lowell George, Zappa, and more; Cajun mardi gras on film; and Cajun, zydeco, and klemer related music
- A Kinrowan Estate Stoty: A Guest Lecturer
- What’s New for the 7th of July: A Passel of Roger Zelazny Reviews, A Write-up of an Irish Pub, Two Pieces of Live Music by Rosanne Cash, Where Irish Coffee Originated, Irish (and a Little Welsh) Music of a Modern Sort
- A Travels Abroad story: Truly Shitty Celtic Metal
- What’s New for the 23rd of June: A special edition for the Solstice, Wales in literature and music, and yes, in film.
- A Kinrowan Story: The Oak King
- What’s New for the 9th of June: Some beach reads — dark fantasy, superhero romance, comic fantasy and teen aliens; Finnish fiddles, Swedish-American jazz, and an Earl Scruggs tribute, and a grab bag of archival music; glam rock on film; an Alan Moore tribute
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Category Archives: Graphic Literature
Alan Grant’s Justice League of America: Batman: The Stone King
There are two problems with the GraphicAudio presentation of Batman: The Stone King, and neither of them are what you’d expect. The actual voice acting is fine, ranging from competent to quite good. Richard Rohan’s narration moves things along briskly, … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, GrahicAudio, superheroes
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Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden and Stephen R. Bissette’s Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Authors Hank Wagner and Christopher Golden collaborated previously on The Complete Stephen King Universe, a comprehensive, excellent study of King’s writings. This time around they’ve enlisted the help of artist Stephen Bissette and have turned their attention to Neil Gaiman. … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy
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Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland’s Camelot 3000
You can’t look at Camelot 3000 strictly on its own merits, whatever those merits might be. Someone coming to first read the series now – recently re-collected in a gorgeous hardcover deluxe edition by DC – would probably see it … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, myth
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Kazu Kibuishi’s Flight Explorer: Volume 1
Flight Explorer is a spin-off of Kazu Kibuishi‘s ongoing comic anthology Flight, aimed very specifically at children. The artists who join him in this graphic novel also contribute to Flight. Each of the artists involved including Kibuishi provided both story … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges’s The Great Fables Crossover
Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges writers; Mark Buckingham, Russ Braun, Tony Atkins, Andrew Pepey, Jose Marzan, Jr. and Dan Gree artists The Great Fables Crossover takes place entirely within the Fables universe, pulling together characters and plot threads from the … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables, Volume 3: Storybook Love, Volume 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers, and Volume 5: The Mean Seasons
Storybook Love: Bill Willingham writer; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha artists March of the Wooden Soldiers: Bill Willingham writer; Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha, P. Craig Russell artists The Mean Seasons: Bill Willingham writer; Tony Akins, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: Sons of Empire
Bill Willingham writer; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Michael Allred, Andrew Pepoy artists In this ninth installment in the ongoing Fables series, Bill Willingham is back in top form, delivering solid character development and intriguing plot in spades. A mix of … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: The Dark Ages
Bill Willingham author, Steve Leialoha artist With this twelfth collection of his award-winning series, Bill Willingham tackles the aftermath of the Fables’ victorious war with the Adversary, examining the effects on the Fables, Gepetto and the lands he formerly ruled. … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape, and Jack of Hearts
Bill Willingham author, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins and Andrew Pepoy artists Jack of Fables is very much a “your mileage may vary” sort of series. Whether or not you like it depends pretty much entirely on whether or not you … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: The Good Prince
Bill Willingham author; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Aaron Alexovich, Andrew Pepoy artists When a series is as consistently excellent as Fables, it can be extremely difficult to decide which is the finest issue or volume. However, The Good Prince, the … Continue reading
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