![]() ![]() BISSETTE: I stepped away from the American comic book industry such as it was in 1999. JASON BERGMAN: I thought I would start with a simple question: are you retired from comics? I caught up with Bissette over Zoom to talk about that unexpected journey, as well as the enduring legacy of his work on The Saga of the Swamp Thing, and what made his horror anthology Taboo so special. His journey took him into video retail and academia, and while he never completely walked away from comics, perhaps at long last some part of his future involves drawing them again. It’s safe to say the 27 years that followed didn’t go as expected for Bissette. The book was riding high with strong catalog sales, and the fourth issue was on its way to store shelves. Bissette had every reason to be confident in that plan. Bissette boldly declared that he planned to spend the next 15 years writing, drawing and publishing Tyrant, his series detailing the complete life cycle of a Tyrannosaurus rex. In his 1996 interview with Kim Thompson in The Comics Journal #185, Stephen R. ![]() Photo by Marjory Bissette, caricature by Joel Christian Gill. Bissette at Boston University's Stone Gallery in March 2023. Interviews “My Imperative Was To Get My Family Through This”: Catching up with Stephen R. ![]()
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James Herriot’s writing is a particular comfort read of mine and his heartwarming tales around his busy veterinary practice in Yorkshire are the perfect cozy books to read around Christmas. Oday’s Christmas Book Advent Calendar features ‘The Christmas Day Kitten’ by James Herriot – a story about love and loss around Christmastime. The Christmas Day Kitten by James Herriot ![]() ![]() He directed several cult films, namely the infamous "El Topo," a Midnight movie favorite. The 1970s saw him transition into the world of film where he quickly put a defining stamp on all his cinematic works. This innovative artistic movement allowed him to creatively participate in over a 100 theater productions. In the 1960s, Jodorowsky ventured further into the world of theater, creating in Mexico, the Panic Movement. 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He and Coop became fast friends right up to when they both died in 1961. The one thing that Hemingway did like was the casting of Gary Cooper as the hero Fredric Henry. ![]() ![]() A Farewell to Arms is definitely in keeping with that tradition. Borzage did a whole slew of tender romantic stories in the Thirties like Three Comrades, The Mortal Storm, stuff like that. If he did just knowing Frank Borzage directed this film should have told him something. When Papa Hemingway said that he obviously did not know Hollywood well at all. They turned his novel and put too much emphasis on the romance angle. When this version of A Farewell to Arms came out, Ernest Hemingway hated this film. ![]() ![]() ![]() They sail from Boston, planning to meet Blitzen, a dwarf, and also Hearthstone, an elf along the road.Īs they approach their conference spot, the boat is attacked by the 9 Giantesses of the Wave. The group should regain Loki before his ship Naglfar dives in at Midsummer, otherwise Loki will start Ragnarok, the last war between the gods as well as the titans. With a team of einherjar and a Valkyrie to aid him, he sets out on a magical boat offered to him by his papa Frey. Magnus Chase has been provided the difficult task of regaining Loki and also returning him to his bonds. Magnus Chase as well as the Ship of the Dead. The adhering to variation of this book was utilized to create the overview: Riordan, Rick. ![]() Rick Riordan – The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3) Audiobook The Ship of the Dead Audiobook ![]() ![]() Trust is all about money, particularly, the flimflam force of money in the stock market, and its potential, as a character says, "to bend and align reality" to its own purposes. That word "trust" in both their titles is a tip-off that that's exactly what we readers shouldn't do upon entering these slippery fictional worlds. Susan Choi's 2019 novel, Trust Exercise, about the misleading powers of art and memory, is one recent instance now, Diaz's Trust is another. But sometimes these metadramatic maneuvers serve a novel's larger themes. When a work of fiction reminds me that it is a work of fiction simply to show me how gullible I am, well, thanks, I knew that already. Take the opening section: You settle in, become absorbed in the story and, then, 100 pages or so later - Boom! - the novel lurches into another narrative that upends the truth of everything that came before. ![]() Trust by Hernan Diaz is one of those novels that's always pulling a fast one on a reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Playing with the English language in such a manner that his work has drawn comparison's to Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, among other novels, Marcus describes the cultish, recondite practises of his mother, her enigmatic mentor Jane Dark, and their legion of disciples as they attempt to create perfect stillness in the world by eliminating the "wind violence" of speech and, ultimately, physical movement. With that, Ben Marcus (the author) launches into a lengthy first-person narration with Ben Marcus as guide, allowing the reader to decide if, and how, any of the words can be trusted. Michael Marcus (the father of Ben Marcus, the character) opens Notable American Women with several warnings – most notably, that his own offspring, Ben, may very well be mentally handicapped – and ponders reflectively, "How can one word from Ben Marcus's rotten, filthy heart be trusted?" ![]() The Marcus family, owning four members, lives on a farm outside of an unnamed town the reader encounters narration from three of those members, and is led through a seemingly implausible and temporally confusing description of the life events of the protagonist: a young Ben Marcus. The novel, written as a follow-up to Marcus's literary debut, The Age of Wire and String, deals with an abstruse Ohio family, which shares the author's surname. Notable American Women is a novel written by Ben Marcus and published in March 2002. ![]() |