Robert Boyd's Book Report: King-Cat no. 80
Robert BoydToday I talked about King-Cat no. 80, a minicomic by John Porcellino. I mentioned Porcellino's small-press distro, Spit and a Half, which I recommend that you check out. I also mentioned...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Robyn O'Neil: 20 Years of Drawings
Robert BoydToday I report on Robyn O'Neil: 20 Years of Drawings by Robyn O'Neil. I got the book from O'Neil's website. It's listed at Bookshop.org, but it's back-ordered there so I don't know if you...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Reports: A Bunch of Comics
Robert BoydToday I reported on several graphic novels and comic books. I looked at Ant Colony by Michael deForge, The Show Must Go On by Roger Langridge, Martin Peters by Patrick Allaby, A Single...
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Pan in America
D.H. Lawrence[Lawrence wrote this in 1924, so I think that places it in public domain. It was written in 1924 but not published until 1934 in Phoenix, a posthumous collection of Lawrence's work. I...
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IAH Forecast
Robert BoydA few days ago, I woke up before sunrise (as I always do in the winter) and looked out my window to see some of the thickest fog I've ever seen. Normally at night I see the lights of...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: R. Crumb Sketchbook vol. 2
Robert BoydToday I report on the R. Crumb Sketchbook vol. 2: Sept. 1968 - Jan. 1975. Time has forced me to reconsider Robert Crumb, who I used to esteem unreservedly. I think you'll see why I...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Erik Bulatov
by Robert BoydToday I report on Erik Bulatov, a book published by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. I mention The Ransom of Russian Art by John McPhee and The Experimental Group by Matthew Jesse...
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Real Estate Art: 6040 Glencove Street
Robert BoydIf you have $7.4 million to spare, you can buy this big house just down the street from Bayou Bend. I don't know who owns it now, but they have an interesting art collection.One can see a...
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Real Estate Art: 2521 Westgate Drive
Robert BoydThis house is on the edge of River Oaks and can be yours for just four million dollars. The current owner has packed the house with art. I can't identify any of the art, although a couple...
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Real Estate Art: 9030 Sandringham Drive
Robert BoydThis mammoth mansion can be yours for just 20 million dollars. You can show all the art you want, and presumably if you could afford this manse, you could afford any art you want. And the...
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Shary Flenniken's Trots and Bonnie is Finally Here
Robert BoydBack in the 70s, cartoonist Shary Flenniken drew a raunchy comic strip about two 13-year-old girls for the National Lampoon magazine. (She drewthis comic from 1972 to 1991.) These strips...
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Karl Wirsum, 1939-2021
Robert BoydWhen I was a mere lad in college taking art history courses, I took a class called "Art Since the 40s". It was the early 80s and postwar art in the art history classes at the time referred...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler...
Robert BoydToday I report on Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe. The Sacklers are the family that own Purdue Pharma, the company whose aggressive...
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Real Estate Art: 47 Grand Regency Circle
Robert Boyd47 Grand Regency Circle is a mansion in the Woodlands, a planned community north of Houston. It can be yours for just $6,495,000. The art in the photos is not particular interesting as art,...
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Real Estate Art: 3201 University Boulevard
Robert BoydWhen this house was listed, it created a lot of interest on Facebook. People who live near Rice University have long been curious about this house, which I've always privately referred to...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Some of My Personal Library
Robert BoydToday I look at several books from my personal library. I looked at several books: The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, The Alterations by Kingsley Amis, Foundation, Second...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: Faust part one, translated by Randall Jerrell
Robert BoydToday I talked about Goethe's Faust: Part One, translated by poet Randall Jarrell. I've read a bunch of translations of Faust over the years, starting with the Walter Kaufmann translation,...
View ArticleRobert Boyd's Book Report: A Look at One of My Bookshelves
Robert BoydToday I looked at some books on one of my bookshelves. I looked at And Still the Earth by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Apocalypse by William S....
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Some of my Favorites from the Big Show
Robert BoydIt's been a long time since I wrote about The Big Show,Lawndale Art Center's annual open-call juried exhibit. Writing about it used to be a annual tradition, but I've fallen off the past...
View ArticleA Little Self-Criticism
Robert BoydOver the past year, during the COVID restrictions and COVID-related unemployment, I've lived in books. In August of 2020, depressed at being cut off from the world, I started recording some...
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