Fred and Loathing on The Internet

The big topic of this blog post is Warhammer. If you’re an adult who’s made it this far in life without hearing that word before, I’m sure you might be thinking of an actual hammer. A real mean-looking one. A hammer made for war, perhaps. A mace, flail, morning star, knout, or even a shillelagh...

Another one-volume history book to discuss. This time it is The First World War by John Keegan. He was a stuffy Oxford-type historian who published the book in 1998, well into the height of his academic career. His sixties. The shank of the historian’s career path. I imagine the most difficult...

R. Crumb has been brewing in my mind for many, many, artistically prodigious years. However, that could be said about a lot of artists. There are tons of artists’ names marinating in my brain. Even among just the comic book creators, that is a long list. Hell, even narrowing that down to just...