Beautiful book covers: Jon Klassen’s The Watch that Ends the Night
Barnacle Press is home to a fantastic array of old comics, some beautiful, some strange, some bizarre, some with.. uhhh.. old fashioned and unfortunate ways of thinking, and more!
This includes one of my favorites, shown here, the strip Buster Brown, featuring wide-eyed troublemaking Buster, his dog Tige, his extremely fashionable mother and her friends, and maybe an old auntie or two.
and you know, since I posted about the North this morning, why not see some great music from there also? Nunavik’s own Elisapie Isaac, multi-talented lady who sings in English, Inuktitut and French. She makes films too! Sheesh!
possibly the funnest video of all time? ohhhhh Radio Radio, Acadian gift to the world.
oh boy! A new video from Radio Radio, they are the best and all their videos are super fun.
This article, “The Trials of Nunavut,” has been in my mind since I read it last year. Look for the story of Leo Nangmalik especially. An important read.
Story by the Globe and Mail’s Patrick White, photo here by Peter Power.
An opinionated list of Viking depictions in film! Great stuff. No horned helmets plz
Try these foreign edition Hobbit illustrations on for size, including work by the incomparable Tove Jansson. Watch out for a pop-up though.
finally, The Hobbit is out!
beautiful and sad images on the topic of Alzheimer’s by photographer Tom Hussey.
How delightful to watch is this stop-motion animation of Sigmund Freud? From Brazil, Cesar Coelho, director, and Luciano do Amaral, animator and puppet maker.
“For 47 years, I portrayed the best of all possible worlds – grandfathers, puppy dogs – things like that. That kind of stuff is dead now, and I think it’s about time.”
A pretty interesting article about Norman Rockwell and race.
If you liked that Bad Romance parody, maybe you will like this 2004 HBO film about it’s star subject, Alice Paul. It is available in parts on youtube.
Harriet Tubman: The Sexiest Abolitionist
I don’t know how many Bad Romance videos are out there, but this is the first Suffragette one I’ve seen. While we’re on it, look at this penny defaced by Suffragettes from the British Museum. Pretty clever no?