Thursday, November 3, 2016

Best of Reading Room UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Part 2

Depending on your sensitivity, may be NSFW...
First edition cover. Art by Rolland Livingstone.
We have already seen..
Running up large debts, Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby faces the prospect of losing everything.
He raises money by selling two of his slaves, Uncle Tom (a middle-aged man with wife and children), and Harry (young son of maid Eliza), to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader.
When Shelby tells his wife about his agreement with Haley, she is appalled because she has promised Eliza that Shelby would not sell her son.


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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Best of Reading Room UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Part 1

Depending on your sensitivity, may be NSFW...
...but this oft-times banned classic of American Literature should be required reading for all schoolchildren.
This is the Classics Illustrated version, softened for children and first published in 1943.
And we'll be here to see it...TOMORROW!

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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Reading Room: SOLAR LEGION "Enter Adam Starr"

Where there's a frontier, mankind tends to create a police force to keep "law and order"...
...though at this point, it's a tale of a solo vigilante, unemcumbered by governmental restrictions!
Proving the old trope that space opera is just "horse opera" (Old West stories) with ray guns instead of six-shooters, this all-Jack Kirby (writing and art) production from Tem Publishing's Crash Comics Adventures #1 (1940) shows both Kirby's limitless potential and his relative inexperience.
He was only 23 when he did this tale, so "borrowing" the basic plot from the most popular genre in media at the time was quite excusable.
The demonstration of Kirby's imagination, which was just beginning to kick into high gear, is the epic scope of the tale, spanning the solar system with a tale that, today, would be an entire issue, but he fits into just five pages!
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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Design of the Week DANTE

If you're going to see the new Tom Hanks film Inferno...
...why not be subtly-kool with a Dante t-shirt, sweatshirt, or bag?
Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This time around,  it's a classic early 1900s image of Dante Alighieri, whose "Inferno", from the epic poem The Divine Comedy, is the "MacGuffin" of the Dan Brown novel and new movie Inferno!
Showing both Heaven and Hell, it's a superb example of lithographic design that would look great on your body or desk!