"Let's tell stories that, over time, build up an intricate, involved, involving mythology that is also accessible and comprehensible at any point of entry. The intricacy, the accretion of lore over time, should be both inventive and familiar, founded in old mythologies... The accessibility will come from our making a commitment to tell a full, complete story, or a complete piece of a story, in every issue."
For ages now I've been trying to find an explanation for my love of both
episodic TV and magazines, being pretty convinced that there must be a
link between the two. This quote, describing comics and taken from
"Kid's Stuff", an essay in Michael Chabon's Maps and Legends, is
as close as I've been able to find. Chabon's book is brilliant, and
deserves a fuller exploration here in the very near future.
Other things made recently.
Hearing about my hometown in context of, y'know, a murder is pretty strange....
"It's too exciting and distracting online... There's always some button that wants you to click to cat porn. You try to read something, and it's flashing, it's telling you to go somewhere else." — Dave Eggers, in praise of print...
So the film where the guy hacks his arm off, that apparently caused people to faint when it was shown in the cinemas back in 2010, got a terrestrial airing last night. Whether it was because I was tired after an excellent weekend in the country,...
I didn't write about Radiohead's King of Limbs at the time of its release a couple of months ago, mainly because I didn't have much to add beyond what seemed to be the critical consensus of 'Nice, but nothing amazing'. I can't say that the album...
Colophon.
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