A dream collaboration: Wagner and Jones bring out the best in one another. Can’t wait for Book Two.
Amazing.
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER (André Øvredal, 2023)
Went into this one more skeptical than it deserved - no doubt because of how much I loved the second episode of the Moffat / Gattis DRACULA that covered the same chapter of the novel - and came out satisfied. Nothing spectacular, but not a bad film by any means: solid performances throughout, some great shippy-atmosphere, and an Orlock-infused Dracula. That being said, all of the above deserved a less pedestrian direction; can only imagine what a more visceral, artistic director would have made of it. Can’t stop thinking that DEMETER would have been a perfect fit for John Carpenter or Ridley Scott (especially given its ALIEN inspiration). (*** / *****)
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I've been familiar with Vidocq's wild story for awhile, but this excellent longread is a perfect summation: Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective | The Public Domain Review
Artist Pandora Graessl’s Transportive “Amor Fati: When the Fire Bit Me” Exhibition | Cool Hunting
The five finished minutes included in this piece are incredible: The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol's "The Overcoat" | Open Culture
Yours for $25k: Brian Eno's light-up turntable changes colour in "complex and unpredictable" patterns | Dezeen
Art Bites: Surrealist Painter René Magritte Was a Master Forger, Too | artnet
Autodidacts FTW: Noriko Sugiyama Transforms Old Kimono Into Luxurious Landscapes | Spoon & Tamago:
Excited for this one: Wagner + Jones + Dracula = instant sale: Dark Horse to bring DRACULA BOOK 1: THE IMPALER to eager blood fiends this October | ComicsBeat
Fourteen views of Himeji Castle | {feuilleton}
Favorite headline of the week: Yakuza member selling soda arrested for extorting money from ninja spreading flyers in Asakusa | SoraNews24
Seatbelts inform Steady walking aid for elderly dogs | Dezeen
‘Black Panther’ Costume Designer Launches Otherworldly 3D-Printed Handbags | Yanko Design
Dream home = found: A Pair of Backyard Cabins Are Worlds Removed From Their Main Residence—But Only Steps Away | Dwell
And finally, a wonderful look inside OSU's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. Need to make a return trip sooner rather than later… Inside the World’s Largest Comics and Cartoons Collection | Hyperallergic
the collection: recent additions
Been in a bit of a collecting lull of late, mostly sticking with new comics releases and the occasional “ok I can’t pass this up” splurge, this sheet of Walter B. Gibson’s memo paper being among them…
Been on a Spectre kick lately, too…
Scratch one off the “comics I must own before I die and even then” list…
With No. 6, DICK TRACY SMASHES THE BOMBING RACKET, I’ve now only one more to go to complete my set of the 1934 Goudy Big Thrill booklets…
And, finally, in “I’m sure I’m now on a list somewhere” additions...
