Nov 23, 2021
4CP FTW (4)
By: John Hilgart
Planet Comics #59, 1949
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4CP FTW (4)
By: John Hilgart
Planet Comics #59, 1949
A little illo for a piece by Jeff Turrentine written for HiLoBrow’s ProjectObject’s “Lost Objects” series. It’s a rather heartbreaking piece, full history and nostalgia, and one we can all sadly identify with. Check it out and 24 other pieces about lost objects and their import by some really great writers and illustrators.
Oddments: Several Items of News Concerning Friends of This Blog
Every so often (pretty rarely, in fact) it happens that a number of news items accrue that I’d love to tell the readers of this blog about, and so I bundle them together into their own succotash of a post. Lots of such items are to hand now, so here ye be: I’m proud to report that my little squib on Frankenstein: The True Story was published on HiLowBrow.com today as part of their Scream Your…
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The Death of Henry Blake
The Death of Henry Blake
It is my enthusiastic honor to point you to a piece I wrote on another website today. The omnivorous and multi-mediumistic Heather Quinlan is curating a wonderful series on HiLoBrow.com called “Kill Your Enthusiasm”, about the fictional deaths of fictional TV characters and what those television events meant to the shows, and to us. Mine was about McLean Stevenson’s Henry Blake character on…
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54 writers turn 4CP images into tarot cards.
Writers as disparate as novelist Jonathan Lethem and artist Gary Panter have randomly drawn a 4CP card and turned it into a cryptic fortune-telling tool. They’re being published on HiLobrow now - and will eventually be printed together in a booklet.
Kern Your Enthusiasm
Thanks to Jacob Covey for kindly pointing me in the direction Kern Your Enthusiasm, a new series of short posts at HiLobrow about typefaces.
Matthew Battles, author of Library: An Unquiet History (and co-founder of HiLobrow), kicked off the series on Friday with a fascinating post about Aldine Italic:
Aldus Manutius was a printer in sixteenth-century Venice, and he was looking to shake things up.…
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