Category Archives: Comics

Valerian and Laureline and the Dream of Paradise

Posted on August 7, 2017 by jananson

I was wrong to think that the guy and the girl always had equal billing in the title of the original comic series: Valérian et Laureline was for most of its history Valérian, agent spatio-temporel. But I still reckon the … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Ecology, film, science fiction | Tagged indigenous peoples, Luc Besson, Orientalism, Paradise, Valérian et Laureline, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | Leave a comment

Deep Sea Life

Posted on December 20, 2016 by jananson

‘Hopeless is a strange, gothic island off the coast of Maine, cut off from the rest of reality for the greater part.’ So write Tom and Nimue Brown, the authors of Hopeless, Maine, a unique series of graphic novels. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, fantasy, Uncategorized | Tagged deep sea, graphic novel, H.P. Lovecraft, Hopeless Maine, Nimue Brown, Tom Brown | 1 Comment

Ben Haggarty and Adam Brockbank’s Mezolith

Posted on May 20, 2016 by jananson

Years ago I saw a storytelling show quite unlike any I’ve seen before or since. In I Become Part of It the Company of Storytellers – Pomme Clayton, Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton – attempted to evoke the imaginative world of … Continue reading →