(art and twisted phallicity)
From the NYT on the 5th, “Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Known for Knotted-Gun Sculpture, Dies at 81” (by Daniel E. Slotnik):
Carl Fredrik Reutersward with his sculpture “Non-Violence” in Munich in 1996.
Author Archive
The knotted gun
May 8, 2016The weed annals III
May 7, 2016The last instalment of selections from the Farm Weeds of Canada volume from roughly a century ago; earlier postings here and here. The plates from these volumes (a gift from Steven Levine) appear here first of all, as objects of art: scientific illustrations, yes, from which much can be learned, but also gorgeous and often moving compositions. Two not in previous postings, both meriting inclusion in the Farm Weeds volume because they are familiar, of considerable economic importance, and serious nuisances (handle with care):
Calvinesque humor
May 7, 2016Today’s replay of an old Calvin and Hobbes:
Classic humor: idiots, explosives, and falling anvils. Who could ask for anything more? Well, at least on Saturday morning, in front of a television set. If you’re a 6-year-old boy.
[Correction: my original posting said “falling animals”, rather than (the correct) “falling anvils”. Yes, I have a reading problem. I got new glasses last week, prescribed last October but only arrived last week, and they did indeed sharpen my vision, but they were also bifocals rather than the ordered trifocals. Missing the bit for viewing my computer screen. While my optometrists rage at and revile the firm that grinds the lenses, they told me to use the bifocals. But it turns out that with then I can see my computer screen only by taking off my glasses and getting really close to the screen. I’ve been making a lot of reading errors, like the “animals” one. Ok, now I’ve gone back to the old, somewhat fuzzy, glasses, which at least give me a better chance. (Almost surely TMI, but there it is.)]
The weed annals II
May 7, 2016Continuing a look back at selected plates from Farm Weeds of Canada, from roughly a century ago. (See instalment I from a couple of days ago, with a few plates posted earlier than that.) Six more:
binge-bingeing
May 7, 2016The wonderful creation of Pierce in Zits:
binge-bingeing is the PRP form of a verb to binge-binge, which is an instance of one or the other of two different compound V constructions of the form to N + V, whose semantic and pragmatic differences are small enough to ignore here.
More tiki!
May 6, 2016By fortunate coincidence, today’s Zippy, with its tiki figure transformed into a salt shaker, comes on the heels of my posting of the 2nd, on Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker and the pop culture phenomenon of Tiki Art:
Above, tikis turned into household objects (like salt shakers); in my Brad Parker posting, tikis turned into design elements — notably, as decorative elements in tiki lounges (where you can get killer cocktails and Polynesian/Chinese food), but also in Parker’s Lowbrow Art (as he calls it).
Peter Kuper
May 6, 2016It starts with a single-panel gag cartoon in the April 2016 Funny Times:
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First, things you need to know to get this cartoon. Then, information about cartoonist and graphic novelist Peter Kuper and his other work.
Reading the comics
May 6, 2016The front cover of Ivan Brunetti’s 2006 An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories:
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So many kinds of comics to read, so many kinds of readers.
The main image looks like a New Yorker cover with a gentle send-up of current interest in comics and, especially, graphic novels. It’s the work of the cartoonist who goes by the pseudonym Seth.
paying for it
May 6, 2016A graphic memoir by a veteran cartoonist:
A painfully honest accounting of Brown’s hiring women for sex (yes, not all the sex on this blog is gay sex — though there is a Page here for postings about male prostitution) and, separately (in a set of appendices, pp. 229-80), a case for the decriminalization of sex work.
Two from AZBlogX
May 5, 2016Today on AZBlogX, two postings:
a follow-up to “Jim French / Rip Colt” of 2/24/13: “Another shot at French/Colt”, with photos from the 1992 “The Macho Image” by Rip Colt (the porn side of French/Colt): randy men in costumes
“Cinco de Mayo with Lucas men”: a Cinco de Mayo sale ad from the Lucas gay porn studio, with an Anglo boy engaging two Latino studs for the holiday