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the House that Mouse built
As promised in my last post, I dug out my copy of House By Mouse, written by George Mendoza and illustrated by Doris Smith. Reading through it again, I was tickled to see which houses I coveted when I...
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The Voyage of Prince Fuji
Last week I mentioned that the Kuniyoshi exhibition had reminded me of a book I loved as a child, The Voyage of Prince Fuji by Jenny Thorne. It's long been out of print, and there's no information...
View Article進め!マンホールの蓋調査隊 The Research team of Manhole covers
進め!マンホールの蓋調査隊 The Research team of Manhole covers – some of these are *beautiful*. [indirectly via Paul K, I think]
View ArticleArchitects Journal on the Top 10 comic book cities [Comics and Architecture...
Architects Journal on the Top 10 comic book cities [Comics and Architecture post #1] – Meant to post this last week. Obviously it's got different stuff to what I'd have chosen — I'd have included Carla...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? [Comics and Architecture post #2]
Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? [Comics and Architecture post #2] – And talking about comics and architecture, I'm quite curious to read this book, even though there's something about the...
View ArticleIn search of the Atom Style / Atomium 58: 14 visies [Comics and Architecture...
In search of the Atom Style / Atomium 58: 14 visies [Comics and Architecture post #3] – And speaking of the retrofuture, I want to go to these exhibitions at the Atomium in Brussels. Amazing building,...
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draw Jenny!
I wasn't going to post anything today, but here's a quickie anyway. In my last post, I mentioned Jenny Everywhere, the open source comic character created by Steven and a bunch of others several years...
View Articlechildren's book bonanza!
Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you...
View Articlewartime propaganda
In my quest to visit NotLondon this summer, Iwent to the seaside twice last week. I love the seaside. I've got a couple of posts to write up about my visits to Bexhill and Hastings (last Wednesday) and...
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collage workshop funs!
Last weeek I was supposed to go to Brighton for the day. I'd planned to attend a sewer tour with the Brighton Flickr group, and hoped to see the Charley Harper exhibition and had booked an advance...
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