Category: Review of Comic Strip

by MMB April 9, 2018

Review in a compact video – Bloom County, by Berke Breathed

In my review of the return of the Bloom County comic strip, I had in my mind only the drawnContinue Reading

How do you know when you have written something worthwhile? What is your process? January 14, 2021
Dear Goran, In Issue #87 I wrote about my favourite line from the New Testament — “Mary Magdalene and the other Mary remained standing there in front of the tomb.” To me, this line seems to sum up, among other things, the process of songwriting. William Blake said ‘Jesus is the imagination’ and these words […] The post How do you know when you have written s […]
Molly Cairns

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) January 14, 2021
“Of course, the great thing about television is that it lets you see events live as they happen, like old movies from thirty years ago.” — Rock Hunter "I wanted to make a picture where I got a laugh faster than anyone else – I guess that's where it started,” said director Frank Tashlin, explaining the opening sequence to Will Success Spoil Rock Hud […]
Top 10 Title Sequences of 2020 (2020) December 27, 2020
The Best Title Sequences of 2020 It’s been a year like no other. A year when so many of us turned to screens to connect or, indeed, to disconnect; when we ached for a dollop of entertainment, a moment of escape or a dose of comfort, for something familiar or something completely new. This year, for Art of the Title’s seventh annual list of the year’s top 10 […]