Graphic Novels

Little Kitten – Alan Moore Backstage at Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People

by podblack on December 20, 2009

Thanks to the New Humanist Mag — the best interview with Alan Moore! Filmed by Nathalie McDermott for www.newhumanist.org.uk

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Supernova Perth!

by podblack on July 4, 2009

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Stop What You’re Doing! New Shaun Tan Book!

by podblack on June 12, 2008

Today I was in Fremantle, walking to the train station after dropping off the car for repairs, and I realised that there’s something I failed to pick up the last time I went book-hunting. It was too early (and too far to walk when I already had a circuitous route home) to go to the [...]

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18,100 Miles In The Air, With 438 Pages To Read

by podblack on June 6, 2008

I’ve traveled a lot over the past four years – around the world twice, three times to Melbourne from Perth in one year for university studies, a school trip around Japan and even juggled some very odd flight combinations to get to Wagga Wagga. As Ford Prefect might well say, you’ve got to know where [...]

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Skeptical Books for Children – Part Four

by podblack on April 20, 2008

Following on from Skeptical Books for Children – Part One; Part Two and Part Three and a segue into gender and literacy with Mind The Gap, as related to the theme of reading strategies. You may note that I’m moving in a rather chronological fashion through the reading years, so I’d suggest you begin from [...]

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Astro-God, Astro-God… The Amazing Astro-God!!

by podblack on February 11, 2008

Apparently the Bible is now available in Manga form… “The Bible as Graphic Novel, With a Samurai Stranger Called Christ”. Mr. Akinsiku says his Son of God is ?a samurai stranger who?s come to town, in silhouette,? here to shake things up in a new, much-abridged version of the Bible rooted in manga, the Japanese [...]

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20th Carnival of Feminist SF – The Diamond Age

by podblack on February 8, 2008

(This 20th Carnival of Feminism and Science Fiction is brought to you by Podblack.com with sincere apologies to and acknowledgment of the book by Neal Stephenson) The brilliant nanotechnological neurobook, the illicit, magical device crammed with folklore, science and arts, designed to teach young women how to think for themselves about the world around them [...]

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