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The People’s Bicentennial Commission formed by democratic socialists Jeremy Rifkin and John Rossen published a Declaration of Economic Independence in 1976 in conjunction with demonstrations and July 4, 1976 rallies in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
The declaration identifies corporations as the cause of economic distress in the United States and calls for a decentralized ownership of the means of production.
Rifkin was a relatively young anti-Vietnam War activist and Rossen a former member of the Communist Party from the 1930s-50s. Both took part in the founding of the New American Movement. In 1983 NAM merged with the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee to form the Democratic Socialists of America.
Some excerpts from the declaration:
“The history of the present giant corporations is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having as their direct object an establishment of absolute tyranny over the states.”
“We therefore, the citizens of the United States of America, hereby call for the abolition of these giant institutions of tyranny and the establishment of new economic enterprises, with new laws and safeguards to provide for the equal and democratic participation of all American citizens in the economic decisions that effect the well-being of our families, our communities, and our nation.”
“In furtherance of our joint hopes and aspirations and mindful of the lessons of history, we steadfastly adhere to the general principle that a democratic republic can only exist to the extent that economic decision making is above the exercise by the people and not delegated to a few.”
“Such is the necessity which compels us to act in support of decentralized economic enterprises with ownership and control being shared jointly by the workers in the plants and by the local communities in which they operate, with similar patterns of shared representative control being exercised on a regional and national level to insure the smooth and efficient coordination of all economic operations.
“For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection, of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
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Created by the People’s Bicentennial Commission. Courtesy of the National Museum of American History.
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Budo mentioned me he only just published new Higashiosaka sim. What the hell is going on? Have I died gone to hell?
Retro Japanese house on Higashiosaka(June,18 2007. from my Flickr! photostream)
Past days of Higashiosaka (April, 2007, four photographs, Japanese language description)
Posted by Second Life Resident Liqueur Felix. Visit Higashiosaka.
Found this in my mailbox the day I arrived back in Los Angeles.
They contacted me from Austria last year and this the end product. I think they did a stellar job and it's quite the honor...
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of May 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images or have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Published in 1985 the cover is a little modern for my tastes but I am a fan of Walter Popp's artwork . I love how the light spills from that window!
Suspended Animation Classic #79
Originally published July 1, 1990 (#26)
Taboo
By Michael Vance
As a little boy, when I broke the rules, mother would spank my hand and say, “That’s a No No!” I quickly learned what was taboo. As editors and publishers, Steve Bissette and Nancy O’Connor have broken rules, and my mother would spank more than their hands. Their new horror anthology, “Taboo”, is meant to shock, to disgust, and trigger shudders. In this case, accomplishing two of these three goals isn’t good.
“Taboo” suffers from the same weaknesses that plague every prose anthology, stories that are uneven in quality. A second flaw is that each story is reaching for a different response, a special kind of horror. There’s no single climax, and a reader is left with a vague and jumbled catharsis, especially when the book is read at a single setting. And, finally, readers need full and believable men and women. That’s an almost impossible task within the limited space of a comics short story.
The visual short stories in this collection range from unintelligible (“Catus Water” by Peter Grimes) to excellent. The best of this volume must include “A Touch of Vinyl” by Veitch and Weiner, and “From Hell” by Moore and Campbell.
I spent too much energy trying to understand what was happening in “Catus Water” to feel any sense of suspense or suspension of disbelief. Characterization is non-existant.
The strength of “A Touch of Vinyl” lies in its twisted, black humor as a man’s obsession with a vinyl doll turns into insanity. The power of “From Hell” is its wealth of detail and its luck at being long enough to build suspense and characterization. It’s the only serialized piece in “Taboo”.
Certainly not for the squeamish, “Taboo” is best suited for lovers of horror who can overlook the flaws of their beloved.
“Taboo” #3/$9.95, 128 pages/published by spiderbaby Grafix/available in comics stores.
"Friends of McMillan Park is a group of community volunteers who support sustainable development and long-term planning for McMillan Park and Washington, DC. We believe that historic preservation and sustainability go hand in hand, and we would love to see McMillan Park set a high standard as a great metropolitan park of the 21st century." - friendsofmcmillan.org/about-us/
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Select photos published in The Future of D.C.'s Abandoned McMillan Park | Architect Magazine | Urban Design, Urban Development, Developers, Development, Mixed-Use Development, Historic Preservation, McMillan Park, Frederick Law Olmsted
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Fiber Art Now magazine (US) Summer issue in the pages of 'Flora and Fauna' as a result of a call for entries. ; )
Publish! New players, new innovations, 19 July 2012 (St Bride Foundation, London). Hosted by Media Futures, The Media Society and the St Bride Foundation.
Kaiser Permanente Digital Health and Center for Total Health host a forum on the technologies that will allow "Leo" and "Rosemary" from the Baby Boomer generation manage their health in the future see: centerfortotalhealth.org/techforum/
Published in Millennials Aren't The Only Ones Who Want Meaningful Work | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 28th of March 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
How chemical pollution is threatening our survival
The Book was first published January 1st 1997 under the original title: "Altering Eden : the feminization of nature".
With the world population now exceeding six billion, it may seem strange that scientists are worried about threats to human fertility. Yet dramatic decreases in human sperm counts (a 50% decline since the 1940s) and soaring rates of testicular cancer suggest that there is cause for concern.
Science journalist Deborah Cadbury, here expanding her Emmy-winning Horizon program "Assault on the Male," presents evidence that the widespread use of synthetic chemicals has disrupted our and other animals' natural hormonal systems, in effect flooding them with megadoses of estrogen-like substances that "feminize" males and contribute to breast cancer and myriad other problems.
The list of suspect chemicals is alarming: DES, DDT, PCBs, plastics (used in everything from washing machines to dental sealants and food packaging), even birth-control pills. Traces of these substances have been detected in soil, water, wildlife and humans from around the globe, and have been implicated in such conditions as animal hermaphroditism, impaired sperm quality, microphallus, prostate cancer, endometriosis and even impaired intelligence.
How researchers began to recognize the problem and piece together its clues is a compelling and frightening story, which Cadbury tells with journalistic verve. Though she admits that a definite causal relationship between chemical exposure and reproductive abnormalities has not yet been proven, she finds the evidence compelling. This is a chilling account of industrialization's adverse - and perhaps irreversible - effects.
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 23rd of December 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Published in Poruba and Janda 1997, p. 7.
Picture courtesy of Unikum, TOCH Forum, 15 September 2012. This set and further detail pictures available on LEMB Forum, courtesy of Peter D. Evans, 15 September 2012.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Neurdein et Cie of Paris.
The card was posted in Streatham, London SW16 on Wednesday the 30th. March 1921 to:
Mrs. Lewis,
19, Princess Street,
Chapel,
Southampton.
There is a brief pencilled message written in a childish hand on the left of the divided back of the card:
"Dear Auntie,
Thank you for my
postel order.
Jeanne.
xxxxxx"
l'Église du Saint-Sépulcre
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, situated in the heart of the old town centre of Abbeville, is a collegiate Gothic church from the 11th. century.
The church was classified as an historical monument in 1907.
During the Great War, the church's stained-glass windows were blown out. In May 1924, the municipality decided to repair the damage.
However, incendiary bombardments in WW2 on the 20th. May 1940 hit the church very hard. The vaults and some of the walls collapsed, with the windows again being destroyed by the blast from the bombs.
The church's restoration did not begin until 1970.
In 1982, the inspector of Historic Monuments proposed to Alfred Mannessier, a painter born in 1911 in Saint-Ouen in the Somme, to design 31 replacement windows for the church.
On the 2nd. April 1989, Alfred Mannessier inaugurated the first three stained-glass windows of the choir. The windows were made in Chartres.
In 2012, the bell tower of the church was endowed with its definitive roof, replacing the temporary one put in place after 1945.
Abbeville
Abbeville is located on the Somme River, 45 km north west of Amiens.
In medieval times, it was the lowest crossing point on the river, and it was nearby that Edward III's army crossed shortly before the Battle of Crécy in 1346.
The Destruction of Abbeville
The city was very picturesque until the 19th. August 1942 when it was bombed mostly to rubble in a single night by the Germans. Unexploded ordnance is still being found in the soil around Abbeville.
The town is now mainly modern and rebuilt.
The Saint Firmin Tower, at the rear corner of the church of St.-Vulfran, still exists, but it no longer has its very decorative top - presumably it fell victim to one or other of the two world wars that raged around the city.
Sean C. Finn
So what else happened on the day that Jeanne posted the card?
Well, the 30th. March 1921 was not a good day for Sean Finn, because he died on that day.
Sean C. Finn (born Michael John Finn; 1889, Rathkeale, County Limerick, was a commander of multiple units in the IRA's Irish War of Independence in the early 20th. century.
He led many attacks on the Black and Tans and the heavily-armed RIC patrols, with his brigade usually armed only with shotguns.
Training first with the scouting organisation Fianna Éireann and then being appointed a captain in the Irish Volunteers in 1914 when Ernest Blythe went to Limerick to organise there, Finn organised his west Limerick area.
He made contacts ranging from impoverished farmers in single-room cottages to the nationalist Anglo-Irish activist Mary Spring Rice, whose boat was at the disposal of his flying columns to cross the River Shannon.
He and his flying columns made west Limerick untenable for the British. By Spring 1917 he had 80 men in his brigade, and he continued to form companies in surrounding areas. In 1918 the area's Volunteers were organised into a battalion of the new Irish Republican Army, and Finn was soon appointed Brigade O/C. He brought the strength of the brigade up to 2,000 men.
Volunteers from the brigade guarded ballot boxes to prevent interference by the RIC; they sheltered various members after the Soloheadbeg Ambush. They attacked RIC plainclothesmen guarding men buying cattle from boycotted farms.
On the 13th. July 1920, a mixed RIC and Black and Tan patrol was attacked by the IRA under the command of Finn, and RIC Constable Patrick Fahey was killed.
Finn smuggled the British General Cuthbert Lucas, O/C of the British forces in the huge garrison of Fermoy, County Cork to the Shannon River while the British were searching for Lucas. After he handed Lucas over to the East Limerick IRA, the general either escaped or was released to Pallaskenry Barracks on the 30th. July 1920.)
The Death of Sean C. Finn
On the 30th. March 1921, Finn was killed in action during a three-hour engagement the Ballyhahill/Athea area near Foynes in Co. Limerick when his flying column was attacked late at night by three lorry-loads of Black and Tans.
In this battle, Tom Howard (who was later killed at an ambush at Lakelly) shot dead a Black and Tan who was about to shoot the dying Finn.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Neurdein et Cie of Paris. The card has a divided back.
Abba Eban
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely when they
have exhausted all other alternatives".
This was said during a speech in London UK on 16th. December 1970 by Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israeli diplomat and writer.
Visé Paris No. 584
The reference to 'Visé Paris' followed by a unique reference number means that the image has been inspected by the military authorities in the French capital and deemed not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' signifies that the card was published during or soon after the end of the Great War.
Verdun
Verdun (Official name before 1970 Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse département in Grand Est, northeastern France.
The Battle of Verdun in The Great War
In the Franco-Prussian War, Verdun was the last French fortress to surrender in 1870. Shortly afterwards, a new system of fortification was begun. This consisted of a mutually supporting ring of 22 polygonal forts up to 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the city, and an inner ring of 6 forts.
Verdun was the site of a major battle, the longest-lasting of the Great War. It was one of the costliest battles in military history, and exemplified the policy of a "war of attrition" pursued by both sides, which led to an enormous loss of life and very large casualty lists.
Following the failure of the Schlieffen Plan in 1914 and the solidifying of the Western Front, Germany remained on the strategic defensive in the west throughout most of 1915.
In the winter of 1915–16, German General Erich von Falkenhayn, the chief of the German General Staff (1914–1916) made plans for a large offensive on the Western Front that ultimately aimed to break the French Army through the application of firepower at a point that the French had to hold for reasons of national prestige.
As Falkenhayn recalled it, his so-called "Christmas memorandum" to Kaiser Willhelm II envisioned:
"A massive but limited attack on a French
position for the retention of which the French
Command would be compelled to throw in
every man they have."
Once the French army had bled to death, Great Britain could be brought down by Germany's submarine blockade and superior military strength. The logic of initiating a battle not to gain territory or a strategic position but simply to create a self-sustaining killing ground - to bleed the French army to death -pointed to the grimness of military vision in 1916.
Recent scholarship by Holger Afflerbach and others, however, has questioned the veracity of the Christmas memo. No copy has ever surfaced, and the only account of it appeared in Falkenhayn's post-war memoir.
It is possible that Falkenhayn did not specifically design the battle to bleed the French army, but used this supposed motive after the fact in an attempt to justify the Verdun offensive, despite its failure.
Verdun was the strongest point in pre-war France, ringed by a string of powerful forts, including Douaumont and Fort Vaux. By 1916, the salient at Verdun jutted into the German lines and lay vulnerable to attack from three sides.
The historic city of Verdun had been an oppidum of the Gauls before Roman times and later a key asset in wars against Prussia, and Falkenhayn suspected that the French would throw as many men as necessary into its defence.
Ironically, France had substantially weakened Verdun's defences after the outbreak of the war, an oversight that would contribute to the removal of Joseph Joffre from supreme command at the end of 1916.
The German attack was slated to begin on the 12th. February, then the 16th. February 1916, but the snow forced repeated postponements.
Falkenhayn massed artillery to the north and east of Verdun to precede the infantry advance with intensive artillery bombardment. His attack was to hit the French positions on the right bank of the Meuse.
Although French intelligence had warned of his plans, these warnings were ignored by the French Command, and troop levels in the area remained low. Consequently, Verdun was utterly unprepared for the initial bombardment on the morning of the 21st. February 1916.
German infantry attacks followed that afternoon, and met tenacious but ultimately inadequate resistance for the first four days.
On the 25th. February 1916, the Germans occupied Fort Douaumont. French reinforcements - now under the leadership of General Philippe Pétain - began to arrive and were instantly thrown into "the furnace" (as the battle was called) to slow the German advance, no matter what the cost.
Over the next several days, the stubborn defence managed to slow the German advance with a series of bloody counter-attacks. In March, Falkenhayn decided to target the French positions on the left bank of the Meuse as well, broadening the offensive front twofold.
Throughout March and April, Cumières-le-Mort-Homme and Hill 304 were under continuous heavy bombardment and relentless infantry attacks.
Meanwhile, Pétain organised repeated, small-scale counter-attacks to slow the German advance. He also ensured that the sole supply road from Bar-le-Duc into Verdun remained open. It became known as the Voie Sacrée "Sacred Way" because it continued to carry vital supplies and reinforcements into the Verdun front despite constant artillery fire.
German gains continued in June 1916, but slowly, and only after increasingly heavy losses on their side. On the 7th. June, following almost a week of bitter resistance, Fort Vaux fell to the Germans after a murderous hand-to-hand fight inside the fort itself.
On the 23rd. June, the Germans reached what would become the furthest point of their advance. The line was just in front of Fort Souville, the last stronghold before Verdun itself.
Pétain was making plans to evacuate the right bank of the Meuse when the combined Anglo-French offensive on the Somme River was launched on the 1st. July, partly to relieve pressure on the French, although the first day was the bloodiest in the British Army's history.
The Germans could no longer afford to continue their offensive at Verdun when they were needed so desperately on the Somme. At a cost of some 400,000 German casualties and a similar number of French, the attack was finally called off. Germany's intention to bleed France to death had failed.
The battle continued, however, from October to the end of the year. French offensives, employing new tactics devised by General Robert Nivelle, regained the forts and territory they had lost earlier. This was the only gleam of hope in an otherwise abysmal landscape.
Overall, the battle lasted 11 months. Falkenhayn was replaced by Paul von Hindenburg as Chief of General Staff. General Nivelle was promoted over the head of General Pétain to replace Generalissimo Joseph Joffre as French supreme commander, although he was to hold the post for less than six months.
Cemetery and Memorials
There are many French and German cemeteries throughout the battlefield. The largest is the French National Cemetery and Douaumont Ossuary near Fort Douaumont. Thirteen thousand crosses adorn the field in front of the ossuary, which holds roughly 130,000 unidentified remains brought in from the battlefield. Every year yields more remains, which are often placed inside the ossuary's vaults.
Among many revered memorials on the battlefield is the "Bayonet Trench", which marks the location where some dozen bayonets lined up in a row were discovered projecting out of the ground after the war; below each rifle was the body of a French soldier. It has been assumed that these belonged to a group of soldiers who had rested their rifles against the parapet of the trench they were occupying when they were killed during a bombardment, and the men were buried where they lay in the trench and the rifles left untouched. However, this is probably not historically accurate: experts agree that the bayonets were probably affixed to the rifles after the attack and installed by survivors to memorialise the spot.
Nearby, the World War I Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial is located at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon to the northwest of Verdun. It is the final resting place for 14,246 American military dead, most of whom died in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The chapel contains a memorial to the 954 American missing whose remains were never recovered or identified.
On the 12th. September 1916 King George V awarded the Military Cross to the City of Verdun, one of only two awards of this British decoration to a municipality during World War I, the other being Ypres.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne
of explosives was fired for every square metre
of territory on the Western front.
As many as one in every three shells fired did
not detonate.
In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300
million projectiles that the British and the
German forces fired at each other were "duds",
and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous.
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
I'm so excited to share with you that my Gratitude Pages have been published in the April issue of Art Journaling Magazine! More at my blog.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Eight metres at 12:44pm on Saturday 27th January 2024, off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.
The Herring gull (Larus argentatus), the largest gull in the United Kingdom measuring up to twenty six inches in length. They have a wingspan up to 150cm and can weigh up to 1440g. In the UK there are 140,000 breeding pairs and around 740,000 wintering birds, but they are sadly on the UK Red conservation status with dwindling numbers over the years.
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[Published by] Laffineur-Samin, Berck-Plage
Postmarked September 5, 1916. Also bears the stamp of the Hôpital bénévole N° 25bis; presumably, postage was not required for soldiers recovering from war wounds at volunteer hospitals such as this. [Note that the building pictured is not the volunteer hospital.]
Those who read French and would like to put a translation into the comments are encouraged to do so. Merci!
I know, it's not Universal Studios or Time Magazine, but my name and pic are in a Zen Buddhist journal. They sent me the article that my pic is in. Not the whole journal. How cool is that??
No, I didn't get paid for it and I'm A-OK with that.
Suspended Animation Classic #71
Originally published May 6, 1990 (#18)
Dick Tracy: Big City Blues
By R. A. Jones
Tracy, Tracy, Tracy.
If you’re like me, you’re already sick of hearing that name. You can’t turn around without tripping over the hype for the new Dick Tracy movie. The film is raking in big bucks at the box office, and its producers are intent on making even more from the merchandising that has spun off from it. It should come as no surprise to anyone that comic books have jumped on the bandwagon.
The Walt Disney Company – which produced the hit movie – has also unleashed a three-issue “Dick Tracy” comic book series. The first of these is entitled “Big City Blues”, and serves as a prequel to the motion picture.
The time is 1932, in an unnamed city very much like the Chicago of that day. Bootleg liquor is flowing like water, and organized crime is becoming a power to be reckoned with. The police are ineffectual, and the streets aren’t safe for anyone.
Adding to the danger is the gang war brewing between two crime bosses, Lips Manlis and Ribs Mocca. Only two policemen seem honest and dedicated enough to try to put the cap on crime. One is a uniformed officer named Pat Patton. The other is a young detective named Dick Tracy.
This is a brutally violent book that tells a grim story. Unfortunately, it is not particularly interesting. Add to that the fact that we don’t see Tracy at all for the first 20 pages – half the book – and it comes off as one big set-up with not much of a resolution.
If the script by John Moore is unsatisfying, the art by Kyle Baker is downright annoying. He chose to draw everyone like Saturday morning cartoon characters, except for Tracy (who he tries to make look like Warren Beatty). The style is totally inappropriate for the story that is told.
The book costs $3.95 – more than what you’d pay to see the movie at an afternoon matinee. To spend that much money of this comic would be just plain criminal.
My first publication ever in a specialized photo magazine.
Thanks to the Better Photography team for selecting my photo.
My first magazine cover! Woot! This is for the Greater Houston Partnership magazine Here is Houston. For someone who lives mostly in the digital world (even with her film) it's so wonderful to see my work in print and especially on a cover. Makes me almost feel like a real photographer. You can see the original photo here.