The Life And Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is, in complicated ways, unfinished. Sim sustained an apparently unexplained wrist injury which means he c...

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.  The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is subtitled "a metaphysi...

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is more like an extended essay than a graphic novel. The text, sometimes in captions and sometimes in ball...

The Strange Death of Alex Raymond is completely unhinged. But it is interestingly unhinged. At the very least, it is a structural wonder, an...

 I saw Star Wars when it first came out in 1977. It was very good. It was generally accepted that Star Wars was pretty heavily derived from ...

There was a thing called the Bible code, wasn't there? If you take the text of one book of the Bible and print it in a single long line,...

A meta review in six episodes This essay is intended for people who do not intend to read The Strange Death of Alex Raymond, but are interes...

Superman, as originally conceived, as a force for the common man, as an answer to the mindless tyranny with which his name (as a term) had c...

I asked Jonathan what he thought of Glamourpuss . He told me: "I fell asleep reading it. "Not because it's boring. It...

Judenhass is a 40 page comic book, with stiff card covers and shiny pages, with a few pages of text notes at the back. As everyone knows, it...

-- Do you think that we'd be as interested in these paintings if they weren't by Bob Dylan? -- No, but they are by Bob Dylan, so le...