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The best part about discovering an author is researching his back catalogue and finding other great works. I looked up Alan Moore’s ‘Watchmen’ graphic novel series and just finished reading all twelve of them. What can I say? Alan Moore is a writer of the highest calibre. At first a bit skeptical, as one is [...]

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I just finished the 500+ page comic called ‘From Hell’, the one about Jack the Ripper. There’s a movie starring Johnny Depp based on this comic which turns out to be a pretty faithful rendition. Inked by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, I must say I was vastly entertained. The art is excellent in conveying [...]

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the wretched North American high school educational system. Here is a post from the Scientific American blog: Wrong Answer The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen wrote a column on February 15 enititled “What Is the Value of Algebra?” Cohen recounted the case of a twelfth grader at a high school in Los Angeles who failed an [...]

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“But, apart from killing people, you could die yourself. You could get killed in one of these futile wars.” “Yes, and I could live on, like a battery hen, in one of these futile cities. Filling in futile forms, paying futile taxes to enable futile politicians and state managers to fritter it away on electorally [...]

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- Zdzisław Beksiński, 1975 – Zdzisław Beksiński, 1979 If you liked those here are some links with more of his pictures. Gallery 1 Gallery 2

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