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Bye bye newspapers, hello web: Bill Watterson debuts first cartoon in 19 years for Stripped

Posted on March 9, 2014January 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

  Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts and Mutts aside, is pretty much my favourite comic strip of all time. Drawn by the enigmatic almost J D Salinger-esque Bill Watterson, who has been the subject of a recent movie and book, both of which were aimed at finding out more about the Continue Reading

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That’s some original artwork you have there, Charlie Brown

Posted on October 13, 2013January 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

  Along with tens of millions of people worldwide, I am a lifelong, diehard Peanuts fan. Some of my earliest memories are of buying the paperback editions of Peanuts collection from the local second-hand store for 10 and 20c each and settling back into the delightful world of Charlie Brown Continue Reading

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“Dear Mr Watterson” – “Calvin and Hobbes” gets the documentary treatment

Posted on July 18, 2013January 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

  I have loved comic strips for the longest time. While Peanuts is my first great love, and has been joined my affections in recent years by such superlative strips as Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and the insightful and adorable artistic triumph that is Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts, it is Continue Reading

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Weekend pop art #3: What lies beneath the pop culture veneer?

Posted on May 5, 2013January 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

  Roaming across one of the most interesting, fun sites on the internet recently, Flavorewire.com, I came across a piece by Johnny Otis on the highly imaginative one-of-a-kind work of Brooklyn-based Jason Feeny, whose artistic modus operandi is to see, in the words of Otis, “what lies beneath the shiny veneer Continue Reading

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You’ve made my life wonderful, Charlie Brown

Posted on December 5, 2012January 11, 2020 by aussiemoose

  One of the many joys of being so connected to so much information these days is that you come across amazing articles from all kinds of sources that may never have come your way otherwise. Such was the case with this wonderful look at the way Charlie Brown and Continue Reading

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Comics: “Cheeky Weekly”

Posted on August 2, 2012May 12, 2021 by aussiemoose

  Like most kids, I got into comics in a big way growing up. But unlike most kids in Australia, instead of avidly following the adventures of Spiderman and Batman, I gravitated mainly to British comic books that celebrated a very idiosyncratic type of English humour. It obviously struck a Continue Reading

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  • Movie review: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (MI:8)
    (courtesy IMP Awards) If you have seen more than you fair share of blockbusters, and the odds are if you’re a dedicated popcorn-chomping moviegoer that you have, you will be well acquainted with their propensity to go BIG, go epic and go bonkers bananas with barely a moment of hesitation. Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
    (courtesy Hachette Australia) Imagination is a powerful thing. In a world held fast by the often tight and deadening hand of grim, dark and soulless reality, the ability to imagine places, people and times that operate above and beyond the everyday is a salvation, a gift that allows us to Continue Reading
  • Songs, songs and more songs #123: Maribou State, Moncrief, Hylite, Mild Minds and MYRNE & Shallou
    (via Shutterstock) Everything feels so damn fast and intense. We’re all burnt out, we all need to chill and bliss out but apart from going and hiding in am eco-cabin in the woods far from wi-fi (not at all a bad idea, honestly), what can you do to stop your Continue Reading
  • Time to fly? Wicked: For Good trailer lands atop flying monkeys and enduring friendship
    (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“You’re the only friend I ever had…” The final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in Continue Reading
  • Get her home: Thoughts on Doctor Who S2 (S15) E2-8
    (courtesy IMDb (c) BBC/Disney+) When you approach a series that’s been around as long as Doctor Who, which launched in 1963 making it now a grand old dame of TV and streaming programming, you have two options. If you are a devoted fan of longstanding who knows their Daleks from Continue Reading
  • Book review: Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Dated by Joseph Earp
    (courtesy Hardie Grant Publishing) There’s something utterly beguiling about protagonists who don’t march to the beat of a conventional drum. In a world addicted to the idea that conventionality and a certain level of self-censoring propriety are the only way to go, lead characters who break the mould, even to Continue Reading
  • Surrealist something out of nothing: Thoughts on Government Cheese
    (courtesy IMP Awards) Dreams are powerful things. No, we’re not talking about strange nocturnal interludes where you’re naked in front of a hall of rabid lemmings who are demanding you sit your senior year French exam in five minutes time; instead, we’re referencing that mostly hope-springs eternal vibe inside all Continue Reading
  • Book review: The Phoenix Ballroom by Ruth Hogan
    (courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) Depending on your perspective, old age is a time where you either throw in the towel and admit life is what it is and there’s no changing it, and by extension, you, or you give things a long, hard look and carpe diem the Continue Reading
  • Cover reveal party: The Way of the Walker by Salinee Goldenberg
    (courtesy Angry Robot Books) SNAPSHOTReturn to the Thai-inspired world of Suyoram in this sharp follow up to 2024’s The Last Phi Hunter, exploring mythology, colonialism, and feminine rage. Ree is born with her eyes open to the Everpresent — a heightened awareness where Phi Hunters pull their magic and can Continue Reading
  • Movie review: Fountain of Youth
    (courtesy IMP Awards) We are a people consumed by endless wonder and curiosity. Evidence of it is everywhere if you care to look for it, but if you’re a pop culture tragic like this reviewer, you see it most often in movies and books and streaming shows where stories lean Continue Reading
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