Hat Parade

                  

                    One for the man in your life

                  Not forgetting your pet too.

Studio Ghibli's new film 'Arrietty'

I took my 4 year old and 9 year old nieces to the new Studio Ghibli film 'Arrietty', based on 'The Borrowers' story, by May Norton. The children loved it - perhaps a bit much for a four year old to understand but never-the-less, both were captivated by the stunning colourful miniature interiors, the feisty young female character and the meadows of wild flowers. This film is more Westernised than 'Spirited Away', which is my favourite Hayao Miyazaki film.

More Fur

A whole new meaning to 'Herbie Goes Bananas'... more like fur-tive tendencies (top); El Greco (middle); and the Surrealist icon 'Breakfast in Fur', Meret Oppenheim

Japanese Furries

                          Asian Football mascots - travel everywhere with the team.

               Japanese Street Style - tails and collars in fur, partial furries really!

                       Traditional Japanese anthropomorphic print - cat-tastic...

X-ed Out/ Charles Burns

Charles Burns' book 'X-ed Out' retains some of his previous work’s themes (as in the brilliant ‘Black Hole’) – disaffected teens, drug use – but Burns also draws from two distinct and diverse sources, namely Tintin creator Hergé and William Burroughs’ The Naked Lunch. 
 
I love the hallucinogenic feel to the imagery...

(published 2010, by Fantagraphics) 








The original 'Tintin' cover

The Fantastic Basil Wolverton

                                           Detail page from 'The Wolverton Bible'

                                      Just finished 'The Culture Corner' - very funny!

 Was a big fan of 'MAD'...great cover girl on issue to the left

Cartoonist Basil Wolverton was known for his grotesque drawings, fantastically odd creatures, spaghetti-like hair, smoothly sculpted caricatures and insanely detailed crosshatching.

His career in the golden age of comic books lasted from 1938 until 1952, after which his illustrations and caricatures extended into such publications as Life, Pageant and MAD magazines. Stylistically, he has been regarded as one of the spiritual grandfathers of underground and alternative comix.