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Kickstarting Jake Parker

4.23.12

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Remember Missile Mouse? Book one? Book two? The mind behind these books is one Jake Parker, one of my favorite comics artists, and the one one who meets both these categories: I buy most everything he does. I share it with my kids.
Jake has started a new Kickstarter campaign which has in very few days [...]

Eric Freeze: Dominant Traits
(review & interview)

4.18.12

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I hadn’t heard of Eric Freeze until last year.  I suppose this isn’t surprising, what with him being Canadian, ha ha, but for a Mormon with as long a fiction CV as he has, I’m sorry I hadn’t. Plus, he’s an academic who writes about comics and I really needed one more of those back [...]

Bright Angels & Familiars:
“Windows on the Sea” by Linda Sillitoe

3.27.12

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Linda Sillitoe, who passed away recently, will undoubtedly be best remembered for her nonfiction, her journalism and her history. But she was also a poet and a writer of fiction, including two novels and today’s story (a quick read) about a woman who has lost her face saving her daughter from fireworks. She’s approaching the [...]

Make Known His Wonderful Works:
The LDS international art competition and a failure of web-imagination

3.22.12

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I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is a big crossover between AMV readership and Thumblr (my Tumblr blog, natch). On Thumblr for the next few days, I’m posting art from the Church’s international art competition; theme this year, “Make Known His Wonderful Works.”
With each piece I post, I’m directing people to the [...]

Bright Angels & Familiars:
“I Am Buzz Gaulter, Left-Hander” by Darrell Spencer

3.14.12

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I’m not a fan of Spencer’s most famous story and it was, until now, the only Spencer story I’d read. This one (read it now!) I liked more, but I’m still mulling it over, not quite sure what to make of it.
The tale is apocalyptic in nature. Earthquakes are threatened, floods are happening (a town’s [...]

Bright Angels & Familiars:
“The Christianizing of Coburn Heights” by Levi S. Peterson

3.05.12

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Welcome back! After a Bright Angels & Familiars hiatus (that we might better engage with Mormon Lit Blitz), we are picking up with a terrific story from Levi Peterson. Unlike his famous The Backslider, the hero of this story is not a dirty ole backslid cowboy but a rich stake president from the hills looking [...]

“If you two don’t give a crap about our friendship,
I’ll just have to give enough crap for the three of us.”

(Napoleon Dynamite on TV)

2.20.12

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Before I review this show, I have to tell you a bit about my history with the character and the movies.
Once, long ago, Lady Steed and I checked out a Final Cut VHS tape from the Orem Public Library that featured the BYU student film, Peluca, that later appeared at Slamdance and from which we [...]

On being unsure what to say

2.17.12

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Note for those wondering when my next Bright Angels & Familiars post will be: not until the Mormon Lit Blitz has ended. Let’s all head over now and get caught up!
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For Christmas, I gave my mother a copy of Bound on Earth and my father a copy of On the Road to Heaven (the links [...]