Funnily enough it was Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle who turned me on to Dante. Their decidedly odd libertarian take on the original, Inferno, came…
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Comics again, this time with a couple of wonderful graphic novels that tackle similar mathematical themes but in very different ways. Logicomix: An Epic Search…
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A while back I wrote about the H. P Lovecraft Historical Society’s film of The Whisperer in Darkness. It’s a great movie and by and…
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I work in education, advising ministries throughout the world on how to best use technology in the classroom. For most the process is one of…
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A while back I posted one of Tom Gauld’s cartoons on this blog and wrote a brief piece for my newsletter. His work is so…
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I downloaded The Wolverine from iTunes a couple of weeks ago. All good fun, even if it did go through the motions a bit, and…
4 CommentsFollowing on from Jim Barker’s post about the need to take comics seriously I thought I’d write about an artist who is recognised as one…
1 CommentI’m still waiting for Conan. The first Arnold Schwarzenegger film was kind of OK, and had one or two impressive moments. The second was dire…
4 CommentsI wanted to give this blog post over to a friend of mine who is a brilliant independent cartoonist; Jim Barker of Jim Barker Cartoons…
3 CommentsIn the mid 1980s England was ruled by a right wing conservative government under Margaret Thatcher. Like Cameron’s Tories and New Labour under Blair they…
Leave a CommentBy the time I was old enough to read the famous British comic Eagle it had folded, so I missed Dan Dare, Police Constable 49…
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