Monday, March 26, 2012

Moebius & The Airtight Garage: No.1 … I Ink Therefore I am

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Here’s a first installment in a series of critiques of the (mostly) pen & ink techniques of the late Moebius (Jean Giraud). I plan t...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 81/2 … The Origin of Snark in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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Well, isn't this jolly? The Baker's vanished at last, leaving his fellow Snarquistadores in their usual state of slack-jawed bafflem...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 81/1 … I ♥ Darkness

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At the heart of every story, epic or romance ever written, chanted or gurgled in the shower lies what literary experts call the "darkne...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 80/3 … lizard snark king

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Lewis Carroll plus William Blake plus Aldous "Turpentine" Huxley minus Jim "Tuneless Yodeler" Morrison equals the above ...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 80/2 … If a snark could talk, we could not understand him

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The story so far: The Rev. CL Dodgson, disguised as Lewis Carroll, has insinuated himself atop a crag whilst playing at being a Baker in an ...
Monday, February 20, 2012

There's a snark in my Lion!

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I was planning a double-header for this week, a nice bit of fresh Snark commentary and also an update on the NYU Poetry/Comix discussion th...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 80/1 … crouching tiger, hidden snark

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The Bellman is referring to his acolyte, the Baker, who is played here by Lewis Carroll, who is himself being played by the Reverend Charles...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 79/2 … The Snark, O Muse, inform, that many a way wound with his wisdom to his wished stay

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Our Snark hunt has entered the ultimate phase of its prosodic peristalsis, the infamous Fit the Eight, the Vanishing. Big paradox, huh? The ...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Ink the Bismarck!

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The press of deadlines has addled my inky brain box plus I'm just darn tired … so, no Snark explications this week, but instead this dr...
Monday, January 23, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 79/1 … the memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a snark in his prime

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My Newt Gingrich illo (see last posting below) possessed so much mojo that this Snark illo of mine is probably going to break the internets...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Newtonian Physics

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If you're a political junky and a devotee of Unadulterated Nonsense, the Republican primaries in the USA are pure catnip. Newt Gingrich...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Fit 8, pg. 77 … is that a snark in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

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Parental Warning: This week's Snark posting contains scenes of paranoiac-critical crosshatching and surrealist innuendo that may not be...
Monday, January 9, 2012

Fit 7, pg. 75/3 … work is the curse of the inking classes, part two

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Leaving someone to their fate is all the rage in certain philosophical circles. The smart set calls it a feeble-minded tautology but we thin...
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Monday, January 2, 2012

Fit 7, pg. 75/2 … drive your snark and your plow over the bones of the dead

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This stanzel is jam-packed with jolly bits of scrumptious, Nonsense-soaked Carrollian references. Would it interest you to know that — 1. m...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

Fit 7, pg. 75/1 … raise high the snark beam, carpenters

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What better way to celebrate Boxing Day than to ogle this salacious image of Karl Marx in blackface doing a disjointed, Nonsensical Carrolli...
Monday, December 19, 2011

A child's christmas in Snark Island

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Alas, dear readers, but the press of deadlines this week forces me to be an utter cad and skip the usual Snark commentary … instead, I must...