Monthly Archives: July 2016

Comics as Literature

Literary Hub: Why Calvon and Hobbes is Great Literature. “On the Ontology of a stuffed tiger and finding the whole world in a comic.” By Gabrielle Bellot.

“Calvin and Hobbes feels so inventive because it is: the strips take us to new planets, to parodies of film noir, to the Cretaceous period, to encounters with aliens in American suburbs and bicycles coming to life and reality itself being revised into Cubist art. Calvin and Hobbes ponder whether or not life and art have any meaning—often while careening off the edge of a cliff on a wagon or sled.”

Link via MetaFilter: “Oh, blood-red eyes and tentacles! / Throbbing, pulsing ventricles!”.

“You can’t be sure where any search will lead.”

The Atlantic: Champagne in the Cellar.
“How I used the internet to find the man who saved my parents’ lives in a Budapest basement during World War II.” By John Temple.

“It all started with a question, one my parents had been unable to answer for 70 years.

What happened to the French doctor they had taken in during the Russian siege of Budapest? He was an escaped prisoner of war. They were just trying to hang on. Together, they hid in a cellar, beneath the feet of German soldiers who had made the home their headquarters.”

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