Back To the Future

The precognizant and paranoid fiction of Philip K. Dick.

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

We have seen the future, thanks to science fiction author Philip K. Dick, and it looks like the present… even when it’s set in the past. No, we don’t fly around it rocket-powered hovercraft, there are no colonies on the moon let alone Mars and we don’t carry around laser…

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Diggin’ Deitch

Former “cartoon brat” is the great American (graphic) novelist.

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Our choice for the great American novel is not about a boy named Huck, a sailor obsessed with a whale or a jazz-age millionaire. It’s about a cat–an evil, hallucinatory, blue cat–named Waldo. And it’s not a novel at all. It’s a comic.

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Pantheon), Kim Deitch’s…

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