Tag Archive | "biography"

Trains Are Mint #7 online

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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Oli East tells us that the seventh Trains Are Mint is now online, totally free for you to go an read. Got to say I’m impressed with TAM #7; we’ve noted on here several times that Oli just keeps improving as time goes by, but I have to say I’m finding this issue, which is [...]

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The Man In Black – in perfect black and white….

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt (Hurt by Trent Reznor, but made perfect by Johnny Cash) I’ve just finished Reinhard Kleist’s wonderful graphic biography of Johnny [...]

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“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Cash: I See a Darkness Reinhard Kleist Self Made Hero “If you wanna save your soul from hell, cowboy, then change your ways today. Or you’ll ride with us through these endless skies, forever on the hunt for the Devil’s herd...” Ghost Riders in the Sky To say award-winning German comics creator Reinhard Kleist’s graphic [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Logicomix, a philosophical biography in comics

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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On September 4, 1939, just after Great-Britain had declared war with Germany, philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell spoke to a very sceptical American audience about the “Role of logic in human affairs”.  This anecdote is the starting point for Logicomix, a graphic novel about the origins of Russell’s lifelong search to find the undeniable logical [...]

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The Man In Black

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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“Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see bright colours on my back, And why does my appearance seem to have a sombre tone. Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on. I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, [...]

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