February 2012

I Am A Snout

“Mommy, you’re the core of the family. It’s like, you’re the snout, and Dad is the nostrils. And us, we’re the eyes.” Filed under: Fun, Personal Tagged: family life

Torture

In the history of the world there has probably never been a nation that didn’t sometimes intentionally torture prisoners and secretly use the information so obtained, however unreliable.But at least…

Dickens @ 200

Nifty little animated biography of Charles Dickens, the brilliant Victorian novelist who would have been 200 years old today, had he not died 142 years previously. Though not his greatest…

Tropes

…are figures of speech. They are NOT themes, motifs or recurring images. “Mystical pregnancy,” the “magical Negro,” etc., are not tropes. The sexism and racism being analyzed are real enough,…

8 Panels again

Better pictures. Better white balance, though there’s just a bit too much colour in some of the white areas. But, I paint in the basement, and these are the first…

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