Super Hero films
saw avengers finally - loved it - laughed so hard it hurt
upcoming spiderman has shitty version of lizard and fucked up gwen/parents story
batman seems to be more about terrorism than superheroes
buth prometheus looks set to be best film in 30 years
back to avengers
Several flaws in nick fury dialogue at least could be explained as bullshit - dead agent should have popped up and fury just lied he was dead - turns out phil will return - he is the glue of the ushared film continuity - one costant thing in the bold new shared superhero world
The cinematic universe version of marvel universe is pretty big but i guess universal pictures monsters are a kind of shared film world, as is godzilla. Superheroes are a bit more human than those - (marvel pioneered super continuity in comics with first team up ever in ww2 era sub mariner vs human torch) - every comic universe owes this one comic story.
I like how tony gets a boner for bruce offers him room in house and drives off with him at end for kebab. Hulk was so funny i hurt laughing.
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Sly Stallone complains of action heroes genre being killed by superheroes.
sly whine here
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=60620
Good.
Action tv in australia died in 80s and still going in usa - i would have thought crime tv was was worse - martial arts in moves were big deal once - in 70s it was like magic to most ppl - now everyone has done some martial arts- now girs doing flying kicks is a shit cliche (any pretty girl with no muscle tone can do anything). I now understand what my friend meant by hating wire based martial arts films. Anyone with effects can doanything now - make dr who a superhuman acrobat and make spy kids beat anyone. No more steve reeve where as herculese he looked like he really could move a boulder or kill a lion.
Superheroes are the last viable genre of sf left
transhumanismm - the sf of the body [moon fits this too]
seriously id prefer to see superherous than sleazy tough jocks bashing stereotype fears of the momentr. with hoplessly unreal violence -at least you know superheroes are kida unrealistic but like the sybolism is more obvious
if comic based movies help keep comics or at least the characters alive good
Anyway Great Superhero films Below -
I’ll do animted heroes some other time and sf horror the new sf vs cthulhu craze.
Blade and Robocop and judge dredd will be elsewhere too - pure spandex heroes only.
Avengers
The Shadow
beautiful
Rocketeer
beautiful
The Increeadible Hulk
1st one ok but second was really good and linked to previous 70s tv show and movie - starting to make more flexible continuities for heroes and audience can acept multiple versions and alternate realities
Superman and the mole men
(im a hollow earth sucker)
Batman
(80s one though i hated end - joker leg ulds a 1-7t block of stone, villain falling + -1star
Whole series just turned into celebs as themselves posing in s&m outfits
Current cycle of bat films are fun but too fixed in now and terrorism - i wanna see Gotham city not Boston. Gotham is the real star of older batman films. You watch 60s Batman like an austin powers movie or like a small child and read it totally straight. I used to cry when my dad and brother came to watch batman and would laugh (monkey too) didnt they know he was serious and dark? I think there is room for funny batman like brave and bold cartoon 50s 60s comics were increadibly weird and comix were inherintly a bit silly. the 80s and frank millar made batman black and dark.
Superman 2
Best villains 3 ppl as good as him - other than this and the set up in one the est are pretty silly. I fell asleep first watch of new one - was anoyed by continuity shit too - hope next verion works. Otherwise go back to 40s animations.
Supergirl
i really always liked supergirls comics and pets - her horse is awesome. Fun film.
Fantastic Four
Great chracterisation of four - dr doom had capable actor but screwing up his origin, not having a battlesuit like ironman, or his steampunk brutaliust inventions. No latveria no magic. Most of the films heroic feats were cleaning up their own mess and 4 ppl beating up one. not very fantastic. Second one should have done galactus and have him apear to aliens with their form before eating them - they pussied out and movie crawled backwards in thrill power - the film Kronos with the FF would have rocked. Actors and fx great in both shame franchise didnt get another shot. I cant wait for rights to return to marvel.
X-Men
Cartoon better but the fourth film was beautiful and surprisingly good - like dr no and madmen kind of retro look i really enjoyed enough to not care about their non-cannon text. First 3 films were a bit matrixy. First was promising but got more shitty - i enjoyed them but kept being upset at why fix wot aint broke. Just make a new film dont call it xmen. Wolverine was so bad. One of worst films ever - make all those flopped black superheroes movies nobody in australia got to see look good. Im no deadpool fan but after raping him in wolverine they want to give him a spinoff!!!I cant wait for rights to return to marvel so beast, wolverine and storm can be in avengers VIII.
Unbreakable
Brilliant!
League of extarordinary Gentlemen
Oddly did better in australia. If i didnt know comic i would have liked more but i some how could accept it was just inspired by alan moore and not meant to make fames masturbate on the commic while watching. I didnt mind it and think it on par withy 70s steampunk movies.
Spiderman
The 70s version among my friends was as cool as starwars. we all had spiderman toys. Now they look like the shittry tv movie/pilots they were. TobyMcGuire version i enjoyed. Kistens dimples make me feel funny. Good but mre fighting please. Second one ok, 3rd one should be called too many monsters - screwd relations up for no reason. New one has screwd lizard one of my faves - the idea of a lab coat wearing scientist lizard man is brilliant he could be brilliant one moment and crocadillian stupidity next. I look fwd to more but home marvel studios will get back because the cinematic shared universe project is good for all superheroes. I cant wait for rights to return to marvel
Daredevil
When he beats Bullseye turn it off quick. Electra spinoff dreadful - making typhoid a nothing villain - what a waste. Kingpin was aweful.
Hellboy
Brilliant - second one a bit too slick even though i can see wires in first.
Hancock
Not really a superhero film. Maybe first half counts.
KickAss
Not really a superhero movie but go read the comic because it is dark and not a teen summer fun film liker at all. Maybe thell make it like the comic in a remake in 10years.
Thor
Awesome cept why cant jane be a nurse? Nurses rock - or even a paramedic. Shame no donald blake - thors not used much secret id - being a medical doctor a man of peace was a good flipside.
Captain America
old version with italian skull? shit
Current one like rockateer is wonderful.
Iron Man
Probably my fave solo hero film now. Second one needed a bigger villain and took me a rewatch to like. Converted several friends to superhero films with iron man. Not really acting is it?.
Green Lantern
Villain parallax fail on many levels.
Punisher
Lets make 3 terrible films with a character who was at his best as a spiderman villain. I would kill him if i could (and had powers). How can 3 films be so bad?
Watchmen
book is great - this film ok but gutless for not using the comic ending (even refering to comics ending) - music feels more forest gump than alan moore
Green Hornet
Enjoyable but posasibly funnier than it ought to be for some
Mystery Men
I loved it but some friends dont like funny heroes. Shame didnt include flaming carrot from comic - mr furious didnt come off as a nick fury parody just a dark bitter bit of a dick.
wikirpedia list needs update badly
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sadly i ran a superhero role playing game for 20 years. i could do my own wiki on it.
My Favorite SF films
With prometheus coming up im ispired to write my top 10 up becuse prometheus is sure to bump something out. Pretty much based on art direction.
No particular order….
Metropolis - continues to inspire me again
Alien - The best ever alien other than the thing
5th Element - heavy metal magazine come to life
2001 - one of my fave ever cinematic works
Star Wars - Although Empire is the best of series
Forbiden Planet - proto star trek meets shakespere, best robot ever
Terminator 2 - Actualy takes a good film up some notches
Starship Troopers - read book and forever war by joe halderman - skip second film, 3rd ok
Logans Run - Dystopian post apocalypse - great actors
Blade Runner - Syd mead design
Some Noteworthy Runners Up….
Flash Gordon - Silly, fun, pretty - some of original pre war series - sorry if you liked original comic
Space BattlshipYomato - could have been awesomeseries but went for shitty end
Aliens - fun but more lowbrow than original
Quatermass and the Pit - many versions of quatermass - pre dr who super boffin from uk
Dr Who Dalek movies - i like peter cushing - better thant the pant origfinal episodes
Day Earth Stood Still - Actually like update in many ways but original is fun
Moon - old fashioned thinking 70s sf - actualy less boring than what it imitates
Star Wars Series - original 80s versions, some of the computer games are better than films
Brain Storm - new media - conciousness tech changes the world - proto cyberpunk
Wrath of Khan - villain one of best ever actors in franchise
Pandorum - Actually should be in top 10 - best in recent years
Green Slime - 60s action fun - gogo girls and tentacles
This Island Earth - Flawed but some of the best 50s aliens ever
Matrix part - one nice - rest mostly just killed it exept a few good outfits
Silent Running - Mandatory viewing in school when i rule world
Outlander - fail at box office but is one of best this decade
ark near Future - tech noir and urban dystopia
Judge Dredd - Pretty awesome world - i have 2 books of making art - shit acting
Demolition man - Sly proving above film his worst ever acting can ruin a film
Running Man - fun
Robo Cop - no2 was frank miller shit so you can skip it
12 Monkeys - actually a very good film - i should see original
1984 - one viewing enuff - shame eyrthmics soundtrack versiuon not released
Brave New World (tv movie) - but read tye book and island by same author
Soylant Green - big fun proves cannibalism sells - coming to diner near yoyu
Westworld - micheal chriton first themepark of future gon wrong
RollerbalI - arty end credits middle of film tricked me for years
I Robot - well resolved future
Minority Report - well resolved future
Real Steel - rockemsockem robots made me cry
Johnny Mnemonic - souless keanu plays blank slate automaton - shit villain death ruins
best apocalypse…
Mad Max2 - cars and gang violence world - why cant australia make a good film since
Death Race 2000 - silly future sport - newer movies ok
Book of Eli - best christian movie ever
Boy and His Dog - great film - end is awesome pre screen test era gold
Omega Man - 70s version prefered - ill wait for pre screen test version end for moder one
Planet Of The Apes Series - gotta love apes - this was starwars of its day - tv series good
The Postman - good even though mid west rock music - waterworld ok in bits
Salute of the jugger - post apocalypse sport - vampire aristocrats living in underground cities
Hell comes to frogtown - 60s pulp at finest
No Blade of Grass - could happen any time
Escape From New York - increasingly silly films but first is great
SF Greatest Monster & Aliens attack
really disaster (easily replacable with volcano) or war or spy dramas
Invasion of the body snatchers - both versions - ripe for remake
Earth Vs Flying Saucers - Better than independance day by a mile -
I Married a monster from out of space - at least he wasnt a non-white gay commie terrorist
War of the Worlds - Both fims good
Kronos - Collosal alien machine comes to harvest planet - like marvels galactus
Preditor Series - I like all - no 2 was cut in cinema within a week wow
Aliens Series - overworked series but aliens is must see more war movie than horror
The Blob - teens in hotrods batte rthying from space
Them - mutant ants gone wild - remakewould be gold
Godzilla, Gamera and king Kong - any big monsters smashing buildings ok with me
The Thing - best alien ever
Skyline/Battle For LosAngelese/Independance Day/battleship - aliens attack
Best steam punk - overlaps with “lost world” alot
WIld Wild West - TV show fun - movie a few years aheasd of its time
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City - writers of dr who created
First Men In the Moon - great movie - nice but pointless remake in last few years more miserable
Journey to The Centre of The Earth - i love this
20 000 Leagues - needs a remake
Mysterious Island - the sequel - good cartoon i remember too - an ok recent remake
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - not as good as comic but ok
The Lost World - Jurrasic park of the pre war age - killed now by racism
Cowboys vs Aliens - despite awful business and marketing antics an enjoyable film
Secret adventures of jules verne - ok canadian tv series
Troy Mclure Films
The Land That Time Forgot - big fun - biplanes vs dinos
The People that Time Forgot - uboats vs dinos
At the earth Core - loved molemachines and hollow earth as a kid
Warlords of Atlantis - ripping fun - dinosaurs, atlantis, aliewns, octopi
Kids SF
Flight of the navigator
Explorers
ET
Comedy
Galaxy Quest - better than most star trek films in a love filled homage
Mars Attacks - See the original norman saunders and other topps trading cards
Men In Black - both melt into each other as first has a shitty climax|
My Science Project - teen science goes wrong
Dark Star - great stuff
Best TV
Dr Who
Original Battlestar Galactica
Blakes 7 - Best SF serial ever - Anti star trek drama
Buck Rogers - Didnt really know what it wanted to be actors writers producers all battling
Flash Gordon original serials and filmation cartoon ignore recent one
Land of the Lost - Episodes by Norman spinrad and Larry Niven
Lost In Space
Max Headroom - Best Cyberpunk world ever on screen
Red Dwarf - better sf ideas than most shows - even copied by trek
Quark - cute comedy space gargage men
Sanctuary
babylon 5
Saul of the Molemen
Seaquest - didnt know what it wanted to be but i prefered to next generation
The Middlemen
The Outer Limits
The Starlost - tried to be silent running
The Tommorrow People
Gerry Anderson Shows - from maker of thunderbirds
UFO - GoGo girls in space best music and alien fighting ever
Space 1999 - Tried to be 70 serious then went italian crazy - best spaceships and sets ever
Fireball XL5 - Great cheezy kids fun
Captain Scarlet - Scariest kids show ever - new 90s version is fab
StingRay - Underwater submarines battle fish men nations
Joe 90 - Boy computer programed by dad to go on deadly spy missions
Space Precinct - Family cop drama in space with puppet aliens cops and humans
ill do best superhero - SFof the body next time - now its own genre hooray at last
Graffiti and Street Art by Anna Waclawek
This new book is special because it is part of the world of art series by thames and hudson - which includes the subject in the canon of world art. A welcome new addition. Also this book will be used as a textbook across the world. Im not sure if i agree with her use of the term post-graffiti - seems to neglect the creation of this term about 1982 by galleries seeking to distance themselves from illegal graff like street art was in more recent times. One of the oldest uses of the term street art i have seen is from a 1970s book of punk posters from the usa. Also the grouping of graff with hiphop and breakdancing was made by photographers like heny chaufant not by artists and is seldom mentioned. Despite these problems it is a fine book with many excellent images worth it for the price alone. There is an excellent bibliography for students and the text is good for laymen.
the all new australian graffiti vol3 by rennie ellis 1985
I found a book: the all new australian graffiti vol3 by rennie ellis from 1985 (vol1 1975). I thought he would be good to interview but he died a few years ago. Mostly racist, political and crude sexual - not much street art here but a bit - in 25 years from now how much more awesome will it get? I did see some earlier volumes as a kid and it does make me wonder what early stencilers thought. There was a lot of interest in this kind of graff as indicated by international best sellers by nigel rees efforts reviwed earlier here. Two points this book does make i think are interesting. Rennie’s intro comments how refreshing it is to have unplanned campagns with no commercial motive - the act of graffiti is a social safetey valve - an act of catharsis. This isnt as true as it was but still interesting. My fave piece from a toilet a response to a question “doesnt anyone just use this as a toilet anymore?” - the response being “as well as emptying bladders and bowels people must also empty those resepticles in the mind where unwanted or exessive matter collects”.
His web page here managed after his death features many images of retro australian bogans, parades, gangs, queers, and more - let your bogan flag fly. Ive included a cover from an earlier volume.
(www.rennieellis.com.au)
Arthurian Romances - Chretien de Troyes
Writing between 1160 and 117, probably the best medieval european romance (but i like The Green knight lots too). These versions were even used by welsh and english writers even though it was written in French. This book (mine is an everyman edition from 1914 and reprinted 83) features four romances (a bunch of stuff happening as oposed to psychological drama of novels). Although many of these stories feature pages of characters internal self torture and suffering over love.
Erec et Enide - probably the best story of the four - with erec saving the poor but beutiful enide from harm to their marraige and comfort which is only disturbed by rumours of erec no onger doing knightly deeds. Then he leads his wife on a grim suicidal trck through bandit and backwood baronies facing all manner of harm and even some giants for good measure to prove he still has it. Lots of juicy battles and honbour bound craziness you expect fdrom courtly knights.
Cliges - a byzantines kinight seeks king arthur for glory and helps arthur defeat usurpers. He marries has a son liges who by right is heir to byzantium. His unkle agrees to never marry and minds the throne but then slips and decides to marry a german girl who cliges falls in love with. the girl loves him to so her nurse makes a potion which makes the emperor think he is sleeping with his new wife but really it is an illusion thus preserving her virginity and virtue for when after many great trials cliges finally gets her. There is a loveley sequence where the german girl in agonies of love feigns sickness. The doctors realize she is fake and promise them emperor to fix her or kill them. But their best arguements and pleadings for her to stop the bullshit fail. So they do what any good doctors would do in fear of their heads and torture her horribly for days even pouring molten lead through her palms of her hands. Maids hearing this make a swarm of furious women who burst in and hurl the doctors to their deaths from windows. Of course our hero and his tru love get together and all is well.
Yvain - looking for heroic deeds, Yvain goes to face a local custom others have failed against. After defeating the custom of the knight and chasing him home, Yvain is helped by a maid with a magic ring and even gets to marry the dead knights wife and promises to defend the custom and the land. He is madly in love but eventualy he goes off on a quest where madness strikes him. When it is a over he realizes he is long over due and has broken a promise to return to his wife. While heading back he gets caught up in new adventures by a string of helpless maidens beset by sons of demons, women burning mobs and other troubles. On the way he makes friends with a lion he saves from a dragon. They have a charming friendship. When others insist Yvain keep his Lion away when they fight - he tells them he cant control it. When his enamies do fight him his lion always intercedes, (even when locked up and told to stay back) and horribly mauls Yvanes enamies. Finaly he get back home and is united with his wife who is pretty pissed at him and he has to impress her all over again. One of the better sections in this book with lots of fights and monsters and bizzare customs which knights deal with on a daily basis. Customs were a kind of curse which took the form of social and moral obstacles the knight would have to defeat or die trying.
Lancelot - probably not my favorite and ive always been troubled by the superlative knight having a love afair with his best mate and lords wife. It actualy does not identify him as lancelot till some way into the story. It does add some new dimensions to him when he turns into a suicidal wimp because guenivere slighted him a bit in public and he lets a mob string him up without a fight, and she stops eating when she hears he was killed by the mob. not my favorite bit and the least finished of the four but still interesting.
With all the shit versions in film and tv i implore people to read some real medieval writings on these romances. Im going to try and read some more soon. I am still impressed by the psychological depths of dispair characters threw themselves into - yet they are not considered novels. This stuff troubled church and state yet was popular entertainment. You could love a woman more than good or your lord was dangerous stuff. It is also the only mode of intense personall thought and dispair a literary character could have- which smacks or 20th century modernisms obsession with internal dispair, illness and mental health.
City of Women - Chreistine de Pizan
Ive been a bit slow of late so im gonna inflict my medieval lit on you all.
Christine de Pizan (1363 – c. 1430) was a pioneering women writer and this book is an attack on the woman hating mostly male world of literature. Christine’s narrative is divided ito several parts - each a symbolic part of the construction of a metaphorical city of the best women, built to defend itself from constant attack on women most male writers engaged in. The first section explores what these men had written and her reversing the supposed flaws into virtues (a specific form of poetic rhetoric). The next sections explore stories of virtuos and heroic women who disprove many of these accusations. These sections and elegant arguements are probably the best. The last section deals with christian women martyrs who were tortured but were saved by angels and other suopernatural helpers. Such stories were common in early christian thought and used as proof to convert the miracle hungry and ignorant of the late roman empire. I had to gag at the horrible torture and the obvious untruth in this section - but it is still an interesting take on retro christian beliefs. All be told a readable book and an important early step in the war against bashing the achievements and virtues of women.
Probably make a good school text.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_de_Pizan
Star Wars - Ewok Agenda - Christopher Tamm
This is probably the poorest science fiction novel ever written - the writer does not have the most basic grasp of gungan society or what it is like to be a black man kept down by the empire. His portrayal of Akbar as a paranoid alcoholic was hopless and the scene where lando sells ewoks as sex slaves to the sith was amoral and appalling. Still all things considered its about average for a starwars novel. A fully animated cgi version is to be forthcoming.
Actually im gonna put a few fake reviews in here from time to time for the hell of it.
Street Art - Johannes Stahl
This little book is a gem. Affordable, dense and authorative. It asks the right questions. It has one of the best histories of graffiti ive found yet. With images of napoleon and artist granville tagging walls of yesteryear. Wonderful mini essays on how tagging was part of your european tour in the tourism crazes of the 1800s.
It adresses the origins, the contradictions and evolution of street art. Even a bit on technique.
I wish id had this writing my thesis. It mislabels marvel comics howard the duck as a grimy donald duck like other books on street art but they all get something wrong ducumenting ephemera and fashion.
Get this little cracker of a book - one of the best.
Louder Than Words - Jill Posener
From 1986 this is a collection of mostly feminist and political street graffiti from australia and the uk.There is some humour but unlike the back of the book i dont think constant cries to kill men and castrate them to be “funny, uplifting and encouraging”. There is a good collection of billboard modification and even some vintage stencil art (which i have seen as early as 70s). There are quotes by writers of this style of graffiti possibly by someones mum from melbourne and sydney and london. Plenty of bicycle and vegan graffiti too if that floats your boat. Even though i get pissed of by threats to mutilate me it is still in interesting and usefulk historical document.
Ill post a picture later
heres the authors site with mention of at least one more such compilation from pandora press: http://www.jillposener.com/work.cfm
Written in the city - graffiti messages world wide - axel albin & josh kamler
This book is interesting because it focuses on the random rant graffiti - stuff with text over style and content over form. There is some attractive work here also. Plenty of poiniant, witty and strange here to see. Sometimes it goes a bit off track but its all interesting and part of the eclectic point of this work.
A better byline might have been from the inside front cover - someone is trying to tell you something. Mostly messsages - less about branding and ego and aesthetics. There is a fair amount of stenciling as it often marries this kind of content with art - with banksy being the best example.
A needed book on a neglected field of graffiti. Possibly more true to the spirit of literate peoples urban graffiti through all history, before trains names and being cool and successful became part of the package.
Graffiti - vol1-4 nigel rees
In the late seventies graffiti was mostly abuse, political, crazy rants, a few names and if you were lucky some humour. Nigel Rees has edited numerous wordy books on phzazes, proverbs, witty and other werd nerd references. Catalogues of graffiti wit have been made since hurlo-Thrumbo 1731 who catalogued toilet graffiti or Tour of Dr Syntax in search of the pittoresque 1812. Alter egos were usesd because lots of this graffiti had political content. I dare say some lost roman writer did the same - certainly some classical writers mention this kind of graffiti.
Anyway this compilation reminds me of when witt not art counted on the streets and vandalism was probably mostly bad not beautiful. without any content insider signs or skill. Adelaide seemed to be getting very little of this work while melbourne and sydney crawl with it still in many suburbs.
These books are pretty funny and have nice political bite. Some are presented with original hand writing. there are a smatering of cartoons about graffiti to that reveal attitudes of the day and how some things have not changed. The books were a huge international successand had many imitators - including an australian rip off series which stole much of its content from the rees series. Available still online and in country holiday town second hand shops.
I dare say as a 70s toilet wall scribbler these books were an influence.
Stencil Graffiti - Tristan manco
Im gonna review lotsa graff books so i can cross blog them on some other sites
Probably one of the first books on the subject i got 2002 - thus Ive used the older cover which I still prefer. Since then manco has released many more books - many of which are fine but i find my self less interested in the big names who are so well documented today. But to be fair Ill try and treat this as one of the first post 90s books which broke ground - but i will mention current shifts.
This is a dense little book packed with pictures and light on unecacary text. The introductory text and history are fine. Thankfully there is no waxing lyrically about the artworks meaning in captions which fail so often. There is an excellent range of content from around the world showing its context in exotic urban areas. I like that everything is more raw and pre-banksy-is-god-era rather than the refined cash cow and mainstream comodity that is this artform today (although by 2001 he was clearly a leader - shep was the no1 heard of street artist for most). Some works are arranged also by subject and there are the world leaders in the feild and some others ive not heard from since.
Since this book came out in the hey-day of stenciling now it is just one of the better known forms of street art to the public. One that has become increasingly reviled to traditional graff and even other street artforms. While the form is mostly methodology and effort compared to more improvised or intuitive technique - it is still a form that can let anyone have a say with clarity that other types dont bother with. While all street art has grown more sophisticated - many stencilers in love with the photoshop cut out filter have gone onto make some pretty cold looking work - while haha and his 60 layer works without computer have a beautiful softness and go beyond most stencil artists in scope.
I do love stencils and i derive a fair amount of my income from them. The wholesale aproval of stencils, there use in schools, council art programs and very legitimacy are what has helped them drop off the radar as cutting edge-cool. There are a new generation making stencils now and i hope they surprise me. At the end of the day the best reason to stencil is to have fun.
A benchmark of stencil art at its peak - r.i.p. those good old days.
Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One: 1
The Moomin family if you dont know are an emotional family of finnish trolls and their day to day adventures. Based on about 7 novels which are awesome. As childrens works they have a great depth of emotional sophistication and frquently deal with meloncholia, lonliness and social anxiety. Some have criticized them as subversive and a bit commie but all the nicer families are kind of comunes really. There are hundreds of moomin products and theme parks in europe and asia yet they are virtualy unheard of in Australia. There is a stop animation and japanese cartoon also. This series is a compilation of newspaper strips produced for the uk. A bit different from the books but still warm, wonderful and make me feel gooey and loved. These are among some of the most beautiful hardcovers ive ever got. I like a good book if i touch it and it feels nice - ive read pdf’s to find real book has ugly to the touch paper. I have always found her novel illustrations to be charming so a multi volume comic is even better. If you have kids force them to read the books. There is a moomin cookbook im tepted by as well. The wikepedia entry is a nice read too. Im still waiting for my own snorkmaiden.
planbea asked: is it sad that I can tell who this is after the first sentence of the intro?
no your so astute and im so witty
Meet Mr Product
Meet mr product is an invaluable guide to the golden age of american advertising mascots. It is an indespensible guide to cartoon grammer and will inspire cartoonists, graffitists, illustrators and fans of retro kitch. Children also find it entertaining. What more can i say? You should have this already.
