Two unfairly maligned professions: prostitutes and cartoonists Chester Brown has an amazing new book out called Paying For It, a challenging sexual memoir about romantic love and prostitution. I’d strongly encourage everyone to read it. In the Globe and Mail, I write about the political and social implications of Brown’s book. See here. I [...]
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Paying for Sex: A Personal Note
Posted in Literature, tagged Chester Brown on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Photo Funnies
Posted in Personalities, tagged Bella Elinor Heer, Gary Groth, Jim Shooter on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Jeet Heer Caption: Gregory Gallant Photo Subject: Bella Elinor Heer Note: Alas, this joke will only make sense to those who have an encylopedic knowledge of the internal politics of Marvel Comics in the 1980s. But for a good background, see this great Gary Groth essay here.
What If…Batman Fought bin Laden
Posted in Foreign affairs, tagged Christopher Hitchens, Frank Miller, Osama bin Laden on May 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Leave it to the excellent Douglas Wolk to remind us of one of the downsides to Osama bin Laden’s demise: that it renders moot Frank Miller’s planned Batman Versus bin Laden comic. Although to be more accurate, Miller himself had second-thoughts about that idea and is still working on a superhero comic, sans Batman, about [...]
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