untitled five.

trying to complete a little zine (the first in several years) during the time i have in between the time that i am doing other things.

and i tend to develop projects that are meticulous and terribly time consuming.

more sourcebook.

blayne from ohio.

Vulgar! Inappropriate!

I took it upon myself to create a display at work for this year's Freedom to Read week (Feb. 20-26) and with the assistance of two helpful and talented co-workers, came up with this:

More images here.





And for some further reading on the subject, but in no way a complete list:

Challenged books and magazine from the Freedom to Read website.

Read the Ontario Library Association's Statement on the Intellectual Rights of the Individual here.

Judy Blume discusses censorship and challenges to her own work here and here.

A Small Sampling of Publications Seized or Detained by Canada Customs (updated in 1997)

Article from the Toronto Star: "Vampire series tops list of ‘challenged’ books in Canada"

earliest zine days.

first zines i ever made, with two friends back in 1995. content ranged from indie show reviews, stories advocating boys in dresses, comics of aliens blowing up nazis, and general disdain of suburban high school jerks.

i scanned and posted some more old zine covers over at g-ram.

finally, books read in 2007:

1. Lucky by Gabrielle Bell
2. Mome Fall 2005 (Vol. 2)
3. Confession by Leo Tolstoy
4. 32 Stories: The Complete Optic-Nerve Mini-comics by Adrian Tomine
5. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
6. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
7. I Never Liked You by Chester Brown
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
9. Mome Spring/Summer 2006
10. jrnls80s by Lee Ranaldo
11. Books by Gerald Donaldson
12. Strangers in Paradise, Pocket Book 1 by Terry Moore
13. Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
14. Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean
15. Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir by Marina Nemat
16. Modern Artists on Art edited by Robert L. Herbert
17. My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh
18. Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
19. American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar
20. Blankets by Craig Thompson
21. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
22. The Prodigy by Hermann Hesse
23. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
24. Blue by Kiriko Nananan
25. Mome Fall 2006 (Vol. 5)

4x5's

books read, 2006:

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Ticknor by Sheila Heti
3. Best of American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
4. American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
5. Censored 2005 by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
6. Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner
7. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
8. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth
9. Wimbledon Green by Seth
10. Bannock, Beans and Black Tea by John Gallant and Seth
11. Black Hole by Charles Burns
12. A Cavalier History of Surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem
13. Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
14. Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill
15. On Photography by Susan Sontag
16. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
17. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
18. The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Mololy-Nagy 1917-1946 by Victor Margolin
19. Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
20. Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman
21. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
22. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
23. Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar
24. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
25. Clyde Fans - Book 1 by Seth
26. Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
27. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle
28. The Summer of Love by Debbie Drechsler

Tintypes from Bellefonte.

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania has one of the best antique centres I've ever seen. On a trip to PA in November, we went to the Plaza Centre Antique Gallery two days in a row. We spent several hours there each visit, and it still wasn't enough time to thoroughly look through everything. A collector's dream and worst nightmare all at the same time.

These are great: