Sandman Meditations – Passengers
In 1969, Robert Silverberg won a Nebula Award for a story called “Passengers” that begins with these sentences: “There are only fragments of me left now. Chunks of memory have broken free and drifted away like calved glaciers.” Silverberg’s story is quite different* from the Sandman story Neil Gaiman named “Passengers”, but those opening sentences [...]
Sandman Meditations – A Hope in Hell
“A Hope in Hell” feels like a turning point, a moment when the creators of The Sandman took a new step forward in the progress of their work and skills. There is a drama to the story that emanates not from any one element, but from a coordination of structures. We have seen strengths of [...]
Sandman Meditations – Imperfect Hosts
Throughout the second Sandman, I kept wishing the characters would stop talking. Everything in a comic is visual, but though we pull the words off the page with the same eyes that perceive the pictures, they serve different functions and go to different parts, I suppose, of our brains. Were we to be dropped into [...]
Sandman Meditations – Reading Neil Gaiman
Matthew Cheney was the first name to come to mind when I decided that I wanted a Sandman feature over at Gestalt Mash, so it’s kicking off my one-way cross promotion of the launch of a new site called Gestalt Mash, a group blog which will feature regular contributors and guest pieces, covering all things [...]
Sandman Meditations – Sleep of the Just
Prolegomenon – You should not expect expertise. There are other sources of that, encyclopedias and annotations, websites and Wikipedia entries, oracles and seers. I’m here for an experiment: to see what happens when someone who has only basic experience with comics and graphic novels encounters one of the classics of the field. Wake up, Sir. [...]
Watch the Maxx for free at MTV
I expect a slow weekend, but ending out the week I’ve noticed some news times that I was hoping would get more coverage, but seems not to have (my back-up content files that are still first string). First, one of my favorite comic creators is Sam Kieth, who I touched on in my first edition of Jan-Ken-Pon. He is the creator of Maxx which was adapted by MTV in 1995 as a feature on their show Oddities.
More info after the jump . . .
Jan-ken-pon #112 – Lost Image Fantastika and Future SF to Charish
Jan-ken-pon#112 – Lost Image Fantastika and Future SF to Charish
December 9th, 2008
