The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
A review of the 1967 Czech post-apocalyptic film The End of August at the Hotel Ozone.
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The Original Building Stories: East of Fifth by Alan Dunn
Published in 1948, East of Fifth contains a collection of New Yorker style cartoons about life in the big city. Yet by keeping the setting to one location, a fourteen-story apartment building, and to a ...
Bering Strait by Tom Manning
Human beings prefer the progressive linear narrative. We like to tell ourselves stories where events start at a single origin point and progress towards their present, evolved endpoint. For many years in popular culture, people ...
Solo Panel: The Innocents by Gipi
In “Solo Panel,” I am going to take a significant panel from a comic to examine and explore. The idea of “Solo Panel” was partly inspired by Brian Dillon’s column “Sentences” in Cabinet. In the ...
The Last Guardian redux
So yeah, I’ve been playing more video games during this global pandemic, remote teaching, constant fires, nihilistic political world we’re in. Recently, I played the 2018 remake of Shadow of the Colossus. I was mildly ...
Comics I Enjoyed in 2019
Alay-Oop, William Gropper NYRB reprinted this book this year, but it was originally published in 1930, the year after Lynd Ward’s God’s Man and the same year as Otto Nuckel’s Destiny and Milt Gross’s He ...
Soma
Soma Frictional Games I like sci-fi horror and the initial videos of Soma looked really cool. But while I was excited to play the game, I was also wary. Frictional games are hit-or-miss with me. I liked ...
The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James
Martin Vaughn-James, The Cage; 1975. Like many graphic novels that were published before the term even existed, such as Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660, Martin Vaughn-James has created a work that is more akin to a picture book ...
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno
I first read this book as a scanlation, but Last Gasp has published an official translation. If you know nothing about this book, a quick glance at the cover might be misleading. The soft pastels ...
Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
Upgrade Soul By Ezra Claytan Daniels The common belief about Frankenstein is that it is a monster story. The focus is on the Creature’s hideousness. This is ironic given the central heart of the novel ...