Help for Punctuation August 9, 2013 – Posted in: Comics / Cartoons
‘Support’ – Tom Humbertone’s latest from his series In the Frame for the New Statesman.
Continue reading‘Support’ – Tom Humbertone’s latest from his series In the Frame for the New Statesman.
Continue readingCheck out this comic from Angela Liao over at twenty pixels. It begins with this preface: Reading text lists of titles and gridded book covers images can’t compete with the in-store bookstore experience. There’s something magical about browsing books with your head tilted sideways to read titles on book spines and seeing towering walls of books on shelves. People say that “print is dying” but I hope that some experiences will never change. Dear all bookstores,…
Continue readingNik Scott thinks a lot about books. He has illustrated over 100 of them and his syndicated cartoons appear in newspapers all over the world. He has shared his thoughts on the paper vs. electronic divide in a 2012 op-ed Do E-Books Furnish a Room where he confesses “to being an e-book junkie.” Scott concedes that e-books will have a “huge impact” but he is also ready to “bet $10 and a shiny red apple that…
Continue readingFrom Grant Snider of Incidental Comics fame comes a new series for Medium called “Who Needs Art?” First up, remembering futurism.Previously on Book Patrol:Day Jobs of the PoetsPerformance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers and more from Grant Snider
Continue readingThe latest bookish strip from Grant Snider at Incidental Comics. Who adds: This comic is factual, but it requires a couple clarifications: Wallace Stevens was an executive at an insurance company, not your average insurance salesman. And there’s no evidence that Emily Dickinson liked cats, but her sister Lavinia was cat-obsessed. So Emily must have been forced to cat-sit occasionally. Previously on Book Patrol:Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers and more from Grant Snider
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