Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation
EDITED BY HARVEY PEKAR AND PAUL BUHLE. New Press, $22.95 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-59558-321-5
Pekar (American Splendor; Our Cancer Year) adapts Terkel's masterpiece of oral history in this loving tribute. Working features various artists, including Sharon Rudahl (A Dangerous Woman: the Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman), Terry LaBan (Edge City) and frequent Pekar collaborator Gary Dumm (Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History). Though several of Pekar's colleagues have connections with the labor movement or activism, this volume does not push a particular political or social agenda. It simply adds dimension to Terkel's original, illustrating the daily concerns of working men and women. As is typical in collections, some of the pieces are stunning, while others merely adapt the story. Two standouts are "Jack Spiegel: Organizer" and "David Reed Glover: Stockbroker," perfectly illustrated by Peter Gullerud and Pablo G. Callejo, respectively; Gullerud's stark woodcut figures recall the art of the labor movement, while Callejo's meticulous detail and use of shading reflect the claustrophobia of a desk job. This collection will capture the interest of Pekar fans and Terkel aficionados alike, particularly in light of Terkel's death last year. (May, Publishers Weekly Comics)
What a Wonderful World (Thanks to my sister Heidi for this)
CALENDAR 2009:
Studs Terkel's (last) book comes out that I worked on.
Sawtooth Renegade - The Music and Recordings of Peter Gullerud
Movies
"Why We Fight", "Borat", "Fast Food Nation", "Princess Mononoke", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "Bambi", "Lenny", "An Inconvenient Truth", "A Really Inconvenient Truth", "Art School Confidential", "Pan's Labyrinth", "Little Miss Sunshine", "Winged Migration", "Dead Man Walking", "Stuart Saves His Family", "Vincent & Theo", "The Science of Sleep", "The Player", "OUTFOXED", "My Country My Country", "SiCKO"(5 stars), "The Golden Compass", "Lord of the Rings", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Away From Her", "Office Space", "Into the Wild", "No End in Sight", "Miss Potter", "Arctic Tale", "Primary Colors", "The Green Mile", "Microcosmos", "Idiocracy", "SHUT UP AND SING!"(Dixie Chicks doc.),"Man on the Moon", "JUNO", "Be Kind Rewind", "In the Realms of the Unreal", "Bubba Ho-tep"
"The Language of God" (The Soundness and Evidence of Evolution in Science and the Bible) Francis S. Collins, "In Heaven as On Earth" M. Scott Peck, "There is a God (How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind)" by Antony Flew, "The Abolition of Man" C.S. Lewis, "Dreams of My Father" Barack Obama, "God, Humans and Animals: An Invitation to Enlarge Our Moral Universe" Robert N. Wennberg ("This book is a model of moral argument that should be taught in theology and ethics classes from the undergraduate to the seminary level."-Stephen Webb, Author of 'On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion for Animals'), 'Finding Darwin's God' by Ken Miller (highly recommend), 'Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography'
The works of Norwegian painter Edvard Munch set to the music of Rachmaninov
'One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.' ~Vincent van Gogh
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