Today,
I attended TCAF (the Toronto Comics Arts Festival) as I have for the past four
years, and while there, I purchased a number of very interesting books: Amnesia—The Lost Films of Francis D. Longfellow, the full package of Read
More Comix, a Toronto-based book put out by attendees of the Toronto Comics
Jam at Cameron House on the last Tuesday of every month, Andy, a Factual
Fairytale: The Life and time of Andy Warhol, a 562 page objet d’art in and of
itself, and finally, Drippn’, a wordless Lovecraftian tale, gruesome and
beautifully etched in white on black. Anyway, I didn't get a chance to read much because of today's gallivanting, as you soon will see, below...
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By Al Columbia
A magnificent collection of 24 beautifully rendered, graphically disturbing and darkly evocative oversized images that combine the old-timey animation stylings of the classic Fleischer Studio properties such as Betty Boop and the original (and gorgeous) Popeye and Superman cartoons, with such themes as incest, sex magic, infanticide, cannibalism, Satanism, human sacrifice, and worse. Apparently, this is Columbia’s first salvo in a wide-ranging art project that is meant to create a Borgesian “fictional” historical trail for the “fictional” (and very troubled) animator Francis D. Longfellow. I certainly hope Columbia builds on this concept!
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