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The new Preservation Office in Carrier Library at James Madison University. Settling into our new space after the big move!

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Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is another dragon. From an astronomical tract, it is quite different in style to the other dragons we’ve looked at the last week or so!

This one dates from around 1460-1470, and is in the collection of the New York Public Library.

Image source: Spencer Collection MS 28. New York Public Library. Image believed to be in the public domain.

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Infrascapes in Somogy - XXXIX by *DimensionSeven

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DC Comics in the modern day just isn’t for me, they lost me well before the relaunch. Still, as a company, they’ve put out some of my favorite books over the last eighty years. 

Since they’re obsessed with the number “52”, here’s a list of fifty-two of the best titles DC Comics has ever published from my point of view…

1.     Twilight (Chaykin & Garcia-Lopez) 2.     Batman: Year One (Miller & Mazzuchelli) 3.     JLA (Morrison & Porter, et al) 4.     The Phantom Zone (Gerber & Colan) 5.     Hero Hotline and ’Mazing Man (Rozakis & DeStefano) 6.     The Shadow (Helfer, Sienkiewicz, Baker et al) 7.     Batman Black&White  (Various Creators) 8.     Seven Soldiers (Morrison, et al) 9.     Camelot 3000 (Barr & Bolland) 10.   Seaguy (Morrison & Stewart) 11.   Ambush Bug (Giffen, Fleming, et al) 12.   Justice League / Justice League International (Giffen, DeMatteis, Maguire, Hughes et al) 13.   Hitman (Ennis & McCrea) 14.   Wednesday Comics (Various Creators) 15.   Funny Folks, Funny Stuff and DC’s assorted funny animal books  (Various Creators) 16.   The Golden Age (Robinson & Smith) 17.   Green Lantern: Mosaic (Jones & Hammer, et al) 18.   Suicide Squad (Ostrander & McDonnell, et al) 19.   H-E-R-O (Pfeifer et al) 20.   Kingdom Come (Waid & Ross) 21.   Metamorpho vol 1 (Haney & Fradon, et al) 22.   Milestone (Various Creators) 23.   The Fourth World Saga (Mister Miracle, Forever People, New Gods and Jimmy Olsen – Kirby et al) 24.   Plastic Man (Kyle Baker) 25.   The Adventures of Bob Hope/The Adventures of Jerry Lewis (Drake, Oksner, et al) 26.   Sugar & Spike (Sheldon Mayer) 27.   Sword of the Atom (Strnad & Kane) 28.   The Question (O’Neill & Cowan, et al) 29.   Ragman volume 1 (Kubert & The Redondo School) 30.   Sandman (Gaiman, et al) 31.   Vigilante: City Lights, Prairie Justice (Robinson, Salmons, Blevins & Chiarello) 32.   Superman: For the Man Who Has Everything (Moore & Gibbons) 33.   Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (Moore, Swan, Shaffenberger, Perez) 34.   Tailgunner Jo (Gillis & Artis) 35.   V For Vendetta (Moore and Lloyd) 36.   All-Star Superman (Morrison, Quitely & Grant) 37.   Why I Hate Saturn (Baker) 38.   DC Focus (Various Creators) 39.   Solo (Various Creators) 40.   Blackhawk (Pasko, Burchett) 41.   52 (Various Creators) 42.   Animal Man (Morrison, Truog) 43.   Starman (Robinson, Harris et al) 44.   Saga of the Swamp Thing (Moore, Veitch, Totleben, Bissette, et al) 45.   OMAC (Jack Kirby) 46.   Army@Love (Rick Veitch) 47.   Bizarro Comics/Bizarro World (Various Creators) 48.   The Spirit Archives (Will Eisner et al) 49.   Sandman Mystery Theater (Wagner, et al) 50.   Crisis on Infinite Earths (Wolfman, Perez)

And, of course, at numbers 51 and 52:

Watchmen (Alan Moore & David Gibbons) and The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller)

Probably could do another fifty-two, giving it just a little thought, but each of these books is well worth checking out…

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How to kiss properly - 1942 Life Magazine

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Officially done with SisterSpeak!!!

until next semester of course. bittersweet to say the least, but the portfolio is in the zine is out and now two more assignments to go!!

go team school!

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What we’re reading

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tumblr and twitter in a nut shell

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study song of the day.

after a month of searching we finally found that one song from the whole concert that made us go ape shit. so hopefully this will inspire me to go ape shit on my finals.

probably not

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Australopithecus Afarensis Copyright © Alejandro Fischer

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Following the publication of a list of the “Comics Power 100” a few weeks ago the lack of women led to a post of 10 women who could/should have been on the list. Among them:

Gail Simone, creator DC Comics - Beyond being a strong creator, Simone has a passionate fan base that will...

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A Danish book on plants, dated 1656.

Shown here are two plates of herbs and the dedication of the book to the King.

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School is really important: Reading, writing, arithmetic. But what they tend to do is teach you reading, writing, arithmetic…then teach you reading, writing, arithmetic again. Then again, then again, just making it harder and harder just to keep you busy. And that’s where I think they messed up. There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education. No, REAL sex education class, not just pictures and illogical terms…There should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there’s not, their class is on…gym….Their class is like Algebra. we have yet to go a store and said, “Can I have X Y + 2 and give me my Y change back, thank you.” You know?…Like foreign languages. I think that they are important, but I don’t think it should be required. Actually, they should be teaching you English, and then teach you how to understand double talk, politician’s double talk. Not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and GERMAN. When am I going to Germany? I can’t afford to pay my rent in America! How am I going to Germany? —Tupac, Age 17 On the Topic of Education, 1988.

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Ideal Bookshelf 353: English Lit and Ideal Bookshelf: James Franco by Jane Mount—two of many lit-happy works featured in our Art for Word Nerds Gift Guide “I paint people’s ideal bookshelves: your favorite books, books that changed your life, books that made you who you are… I think of this project as an intimate form of portraiture; a way to illustrate who the subject is on the inside instead of out.” — Jane Mount, whose recently published book, My Ideal Bookshelf, is pure art-lit gold. Every single person at 20x200 HQ is an unabashed, book-lovin’ word nerd. We encourage you to indulge your passion for typography, fonts, poetry, mottos and mantras with these specially selected works of art.