#david collard

[downthetubes]

Dark Horse Books lines up “Transplants”, marking comics debut for screenwriter and producer Dave Collard

Dark Horse Books has announced Transplants, a thought-provoking science fiction/superhero graphic novel written by David “Dave” Collard

Dark Horse Books has announced Transplants, a thought-provoking science fiction/superhero graphic novel written by David “Dave” Collard (Family Guy, Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness) in his comics debut. Domenico Carbone joins as the penciller and inker along with colourist Josh Rodriguez and letterer Frank Cvetkovic. Dave, who began his career writing on Family Guy, was also a producer…

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[housesofsleep]

Crystal clear

Anna Kavan’s writing “is not to everyone’s taste”, admits Victoria Walker in her introduction to Machines in the Head: Selected short writing – and nobody could argue with that. Despite being praised by the Spectator as “the most remarkable female novelist since Virginia Woolf”, Kavan has never attracted a large audience for her unmitigatedly bleak fictions, and, one assumes, never will. Many readers will choose to avoid an author who could write, in 1926, that “real life is a hateful and tiresome dream” and, forty years later, that it is “just a nightmare and the universe has no meaning”. To reverse Graham Greene’s definition of authorly dispassion, Kavan is a writer with a splinter of heart in her ice. She is Beckett without the laughs. Born Helen Woods in Cannes in 1901 to wealthy, uncaring parents, she had a wretchedly miserable childhood. Her father committed suicide when she was…

Latest in Kavan press: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/anna-kavan-ice-machines/

[inwhichidigress-blog]

We sat and talked for an hour in a relaxed way, much of it about films: Auden's most memorable remark, though we didn't know how to take it, was that the films he liked most were the ones where animals talk with human voices. He mentioned 'Francis the Talking Mule' as an example.

Paul McQuail, the undergraduate host to W. H. Auden at the Cambridge English Club in 1957, quoted by David Collard in Literary Review.