Book 10 of 2023:
Moby-Dick (1951) by Herman Melville (read entrancingly by Frank Muller).

Spurred by Michelle hearing an English professor (astonishingly) describe Moby-Dick as "a slog," I embarked on a reread.





I was absolutely spurred by a simmering fire, insulted and disbelieving anyone literate couldn't find the obvious effervescence in Ishmael's telling of tale. Not the purest of motives perhaps, but I craved vindication. For me, for Melville, for the American novel in general.

RONJA, A THREAD.
Ronja The Robber's Daughter is the best animated children's television show I've ever seen. 1/30 Likely better than Avatar The Last Airbender even—and I love ATLA, except for some of the mid-season doldrums in s2—better than Belle & Sebastian, better than Mysterious Cities Of Gold, better than Duck Tales and Batman and Voltron and He-Man and yes, even better than Caillou 2/

RAD THREAD: A 6th grade girl in my How To Make Comics class blew my socks off yesterday with her comic. The exercise was to make a one-page comic off this loose script:

"A little girl flies her ship past Saturn. Later she approaches the Earth."

Let's look at why she's amazing (The exercise was part of a discussion about how comics are often collaborative and what that means for personal creativity. The next exercise was to illustrated a much tighter script written by someone else that defined panel-by-panel what would go on the page.)