Tony Medeiros’ parody site is just the right amount of offensive and the right amount of fun. The site features Peanuts’ Charlie Brown being told things that will be downright blasphemous for some of the comic’s fans.
Check out more images after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Paperback Charlie Brown’
You don’t have to be a raving fan of “the boy who lived,” to enjoy illustrator Lucy Knisley’s abridged comic strip versions of the Harry Potter books.
See the complete image after the jump.
Click here to continue reading ‘Abridged Harry Potter Comics’
(via Buzzfeed)
The disarticulated skeleton shared by plaisanter. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
Magic; Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography (1897) written by Albert Allis Hopkins and Henry Ridgely Evans.
More scans from the book can be found in this Flickr set.
Um, Master Splinter?
Raigō — 11th-century monk reborn as a giant book-eating rat (a.k.a. Tesso – “Iron Rat“)
Via Pink Tentacle’s post on the Kaibutsu Ehon (“Illustrated Book of Monsters”), an 1881 book by painter Nabeta Gyokuei.
A Tumblr blog with “photos from around the world for people who *heart* bookshelves.” And these are the editor’s favorites. All links are safe for work.
Poor Balrog! He just wanted someone to play with. Hiding for five millennia in the depths of Moria, can make just about anyone feel lonely.
A Woot t-shirt, designed by patrickspens. Unfortunately, all sold out at the moment.
The good folks at Allied Operations, an architectural organization in New York, sent in some images from their book “Interview with Delicious Storm.” The office was founded by a bunch of graduates from GSAPP (Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation).
Interview with Delicious Storm is a book about an architectural concept for young creative minds. A nonsense idea can be used as part of the invention, referring to the term ideofunction. The publication shows examples of idea narratives and illustrations to explain the creative architectural process.
The books have been limited to a print run of only 25 copies, and are available for sale under a “pay what you wish” model. If you are an upcoming graphic design artist or creative person, I highly recommended grabbing a copy.
You can see more images after the jump.
Science fiction author Jules Verne was not only a huge admirer of Edgar Allan Poe, but also wrote a sequel to Poe’s "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket."
[via the fantastic Hark! A Vagrant]
Doug Gilford’s Mad Cover Site. Has just about every magazine cover since 1952.
Here are some of my favorites: 1) Alfred E. Neuman’s first appearance on the magazine cover (see if you can find him), 2) E.T. fingering Alfred, 3) Mad celebrates being No. 1, 4) Bush and the Barf Bag, 5) What, me Suri?
Caution: Please don’t try this in the office, if you manage to find a floppy disk, that is.
From “101 Weapons for Women,” published in 1992.
A great compilation of quotes by famous authors, trash talking about other, equally well-known authors, and literary rivals.
Jane Austen, according to Mark Twain (1898)
I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
You go, Twain!
Link.
Mills & Boon, the highly successful publisher of romantic novels, is celebrating it’s centenary year. The novels have sold in the hundreds of millions, lapped up by a staunchly loyal readership base. Often criticized for being misogynist as well as sexist, the themes of the novels have moved in a decidedly raunchier direction.
In this hilarious photo gallery, Times Online takes a look at how the covers of the novels have evolved over the years.
Photo Credit: Onkel Wart
Last week, I spent a few pleasurably-languid hours reading Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book.” Gaiman’s wonderful tale of a young boy – Nobody Owens – who is nurtured and protected by the ghostly denizens of a graveyard, transported me into another world, and made me contemplate about life, death and the afterlife.
I had experienced the same feelings once before. That was while reading Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death.”
We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
Since then ’tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses’ heads
Were toward eternity. (Lines 13-20)
Graveyards are oases of tranquility in this chaotic world. They are places where some people finally find – in Earth’s welcoming bosom – the peace and solitude they craved for their entire lives. Is there really an afterlife? No one really can tell for sure. But it sure would be great if there were one.
Here are a few images inspired by the evocative imagery that Gaiman conjures up in his book. All the images were released under various Creative Commons Licenses by their photographers.
Image Credit: Denise O’ Brien
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Image Credit: Robert Catalano
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Image Credit: Dizzy Girl
Image Credit: John Althouse Cohen
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Image Credit: Rachel Sian
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Image Credit: Carl Jones
Image Credit: Mike Boehmer
Image Credit: La Cola De Mi Perro
Image Credit: Casch52
Image Credit: Orvaratli
Image Credit: Carl Jones
Image Credit: Andrew Lee
Image Credit: Autumn Sonata
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Image Credit: Zoriah
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Image Credit: Lucid Nightmare
Update: Mark VanderJagt sent in this great photo that he took last fall in Denver, Colorado. 
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