MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

I’ve been enjoying Jed McGowan’s periodically appearing Bluesy Face. The third chapter was published this week on his website. I’m not sure where the story is going, but I love McGowan’s style which uses sparse line work and blocky colors (bright blue and a grey screen-like tone or two). He also creates a number of [...]

Over the weekend I watched Yasujiro Ozu’s Floating Weeds, a 1959 remake of his own earlier A Story of Floating Weeds (1934) (both available on a 2 disc set from Criterion). The story involves a wandering acting troupe, whose master takes them to a seaside town where his former lover and illegitimate son live. The [...]