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Bruno Munari

Sano come un pesce, 1992

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Heavy Rotation in 2025

U.e., “Little Window” (28912)

Horsegirl, “Switch Over” (Matador)

Mike, “Bear Trap” (10K)

Who Cares?, “Vale of Tears” (self-released)

Sam Gendel, “Tape_Tiger_01 (Live at Union Station)” (Leaving Records)

ZekeUltra, “No Bezel” (UBOY)

Primitive Motion, “What You Don’t See on a Clear Day” (Discreet Music)

In Transit, “A.2829” (FELT)

Armand Hammer & The Alchemist, “Nil by Mouth” (Backwoodz Studioz)

Jaime Wyatt, “I’d Rather Be Lonely” (New West)

Iron Turtle, “Grey” (self-released)

Earl Sweatshirt, “Live” (Tan Cressida)

Jake Muir, “Erzklang” (enmossed)

Sketch by MB

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One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

Little, Big, and Far (Jem Cohen, 2024)

Near Orouët (Jacques Rozier, 1971)

The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola, 1969)

Sinners (Ryan Coogler, 2025)

The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025)

Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, 1987)

Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1960)

Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan, 1998)

Standard Gauge (Morgan Fisher, 1984)

Souleymane's Story (Boris Lojkine, 2024)

The Target Shoots First (Christopher Wilcha, 1999)

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Some Memorable Reading from 2025

J.L. Carr, A Month in the Country (1980) Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers (2013) Richard Wright, Haiku: This Other World (1959-1960/1998) Taiyo Matsumoto, Tokyo These Days (2019-2023) Melissa Mendes, The Weight (2014-2024/2025) Fumiko Takano, Miss Ruki (1988-1992/2025) Anne Tyler, If Morning Ever Comes (1964) Moa Romanova, Buff Soul (2022/2025) Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional (2023/2025) Ed Atkins, Flower (2025)

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Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

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Bill Traylor (American, b. 1853)

Man and Large Dog, circa 1939-42

Poster paint and pencil on cardboard

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Rondos – Which Side Will You Be On?

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Sneaky Feelings, “Wouldn´t Cry” [Flying Nun, 1986]

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A panel in comics is like a sentence in prose—a single idea or single moment. Twelve rectangular panels of the same size on a page create a sense of rhythm. But panels can also frame the sensibility, lend a feeling. Panels, I think, can be like the music that surrounds the lyrics in a song.

Anders Nilsen, discussing the page layouts in his Tongues series in a 2025 interview for Publishers Weekly

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Heavy Rotation in 2024

The Gabys, “Colour Me Out” (2024, Fruits & Flowers)

Charli XCX, “Von Dutch” (2024, Atlantic)

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, “Don’t Forget Your Country” (2024, Mississippi)

Ulla & Ultrafog, “jesses car” (2024, Motion Ward)

Bookworms, “viz” (2024, self-released)

Jon Collin, “The Lowering (medley)” (2024, Laboratorio Palestro/Early Music)

Mike & Tony Seltzer, “Underground Kingz” (2024, 10K)

Broadcast, “Come Back To Me” (2024, Warp)

Guests, “Arrangements, As In Making Them” (2024, World of Echo)

The Megastars, “Someone Else’s Child” (1983, Very Mouth)

Jorge Boehringer, “Terminal Grey” (2024, Early Music)

Jessica Pratt, “Better Hate” (2024, Mexican Summer/City Slang)

J.P., “Bad Bitty” (2024, Equity Distribution)

Thelonious Monk Quintet, “Think of One” (1954, Prestige)

As always, art by MB.

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Memorable Viewing from 2024

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller, 2024)

The Beast (Bertrand Bonello, 2023)

Suzanne, Suzanne (Camille Billops & James Hatch, 1982)

The Plot Against Harry (Michael Roemer, 1971)

A Certain Morning (Fanta Régina Nacro, 1992)

Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1987)

Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice, 2023)

Try and Get Me!, aka The Sound of Fury (Cy Endfield, 1950)

An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)

Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023)

Anora (Sean Baker, 2024)

Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver, 1976)

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Some Memorable Reading from 2024

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)

Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God (1966)

Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed (2021)

Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918)

Dave Lapp, The Field (2024)

Dorothy Baker, Cassandra at the Wedding (1962)

Mia Oberländer, Anna (2021/2024)

Joy Williams, Concerning the Future of Souls (2024)

Dolly Alderton, Good Material (2024)

Robert “Mack” McCormick, Biography of a Phantom (2023)

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Kazuo Nakamura, "Blue Dimension" (1967)