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Posted on 4/6/23 at 5:09 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
Posted on 4/6/23 at 5:09 pm to LittleJerrySeinfield
LINK ]Welcome to Magee, Mississippi (2010)
quote:McAlpin's RIP
Many people travel through Magee, Mississippi every year but never see
anything other than Highway 49. This video highlights everything else
Magee has to offer...off the highway!
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Posted on 4/10/23 at 4:16 pm to Kafka
quote:
Cris Shapan works in the film industry as a graphics designer. But his genius is best shown in his reimaginings of pop culture visuals from the postwar era, especially his brilliant reworkings of lurid '50s paperback covers.
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Posted on 4/10/23 at 5:25 pm to Kafka
quote:
Jeno's Pizza Rolls
Must see.
Posted on 4/11/23 at 2:30 pm to Havoc
LINK
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Al Jaffee, ‘Mad’ Magazine Cartoonist Who Created the ‘Fold-In,’ Dead at 102
The writer and illustrator also created another classic feature, "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," during his remarkable 77-year career
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Jaffee enjoyed a Guinness World Record-setting 77 years as a professional cartoonist, starting in 1942 and ending just a couple of years ago, in June 2020, when he finally decided to retire at the age of 99. He started working for Mad in 1955, three years after its founding, and his decision to finally cap his pens came just as the long-running satire magazine stopped publishing new material.
Born in Savannah, Georgia on March 13, 1921, Jaffee had a somewhat peculiar childhood. At the age of six, his mother decided to take him and his three younger brothers back to the shtetl in Lithuania from which she’d emigrated. The trip was only supposed to last one month, but it turned into a six-year ordeal as his parents battled over custody. During his time in Lithuania, however, Jaffee’s father started sending him Sunday comics from America, which is where his love for cartooning began.
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Upon his return to the U.S., Jaffee threw himself into art, earning a spot in the inaugural class at New York City’s High School of Music and Art (two of his classmates, William Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman, would later found Mad). As a professional artist, Jaffe’s knack for parody and satire was apparent from one of his earliest characters: Inferior Man, an obvious spoof of caped crusaders, who easily caved at the pressure of fighting crime. Inferior Man was purchased by comics giant Will Eisner, and Jaffee later spent some time working for another luminary, Stan Lee.
When Jaffee first started contributing to Mad, it was mostly as a writer; at the time, he was also working on other projects, including a syndicated comic strip called “Tall Tales.” His creative breakthrough came in 1964 when he published his first “Fold-In” — a brilliant back cover idea that involved folding an illustration vertically and inward to reveal a new picture and punch-line. For 55 years, Jaffee was the only person at Mad who drew the “Fold-In,” creating well over 500 and publishing his final one in June 2020 (a somber yet sardonic bit about the end of Mad).
Al Jaffee (left) and his fellow future Mad Idiot, the great Will Elder, at NYC's High School of Music and Art c. 1936
Posted on 4/13/23 at 3:51 pm to Kafka
quote:
Cris Shapan works in the film industry as a graphics designer. But his genius is best shown in his reimaginings of pop culture visuals from the postwar era, especially his brilliant reworkings of lurid '50s paperback covers.
Posted on 4/17/23 at 2:55 pm to Kafka
Ohio-based Kroger Babb was the king of exploitation movies.
His greatest success was the "sex education" film Mom & Dad (1945), which was shot in six days for $62,000; Babb claimed it made 6300% profit for its investors. It was still playing theaters as late as the 1970s.
Babb also dabbled in "Christploitation" (a word I just made up!)
But he ultimately succumbed to the lure of iniquity. Wikipedia:
His greatest success was the "sex education" film Mom & Dad (1945), which was shot in six days for $62,000; Babb claimed it made 6300% profit for its investors. It was still playing theaters as late as the 1970s.
Babb also dabbled in "Christploitation" (a word I just made up!)
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Babb's associates agreed with his belief that "Nothing's hopeless if it's advertised right", stating that he "could take any piece of junk and sell it". One film Babb presented in the 1950s was centered on an annual passion play and the story behind putting it on, filmed in 1948 in Lawton, Oklahoma. Initially called The Lawton Story and filmed in Cinecolor, the film was so cheaply, shoddily and quickly made that telephone poles could be seen behind the crucifix. Its cast consisted of local non-professionals whose Oklahoma twangs were so thick that all of their lines had to re-recorded by professional voice-over actors; upon release, one reviewer described it as "the only film that had to be dubbed from English to English". In addition to re-dubbing it, Babb re-edited and re-titled it The Prince of Peace; it was so successful that the New York Daily News called it "the Miracle of Broadway"
But he ultimately succumbed to the lure of iniquity. Wikipedia:
quote:
he followed much of the exploitation industry in turning to burlesque features in an attempt to make more money. One notorious attempt was his acquisition of the American theatrical rights for Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika (Summer with Monika). About one-third of the film was cut, and the remaining 62 minutes emphasized nudity by retaining a skinny-dipping scene; the result was titled Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl. Suggestive advertising art, including promotional postcards, portrayed the nude rear of Harriet Andersson.
Posted on 4/18/23 at 2:18 pm to Kafka
LINK ]Der Letzte Akt (1955)
For all the nazi movie lovers here (and who here is not a nazi movie lover?), this was the first film to tell the story of Hitler's final days (as well as the first postwar German film to feature Hitler as a character). I've seen the other versions of the story (Downfall, '73 w/Guinness, '73 BBC-TV w/Frank Finley, The Bunker '81 w/Anthony Hopkins); IMHO this is the best.
Directed by the great G.W. Pabst. who'd done Pandora's Box and Kameradschaft in the good old days. He also made two films under the nazis, and spent some time in limbo after the war, but eventually was officially rehabilitated.
Many scenes are shot in contrasty B&W which gives it the ambiance of a newsreel, while other sections are in the noir style of Pabst's glory days.
Features an early appearance by Oskar Werner (Jules & Jim, Ship of Fools, Fahrenheit 451) as a young captain/outsider-observer figure who enters the bunker.
For all the nazi movie lovers here (and who here is not a nazi movie lover?), this was the first film to tell the story of Hitler's final days (as well as the first postwar German film to feature Hitler as a character). I've seen the other versions of the story (Downfall, '73 w/Guinness, '73 BBC-TV w/Frank Finley, The Bunker '81 w/Anthony Hopkins); IMHO this is the best.
Directed by the great G.W. Pabst. who'd done Pandora's Box and Kameradschaft in the good old days. He also made two films under the nazis, and spent some time in limbo after the war, but eventually was officially rehabilitated.
Many scenes are shot in contrasty B&W which gives it the ambiance of a newsreel, while other sections are in the noir style of Pabst's glory days.
Features an early appearance by Oskar Werner (Jules & Jim, Ship of Fools, Fahrenheit 451) as a young captain/outsider-observer figure who enters the bunker.
Posted on 4/21/23 at 4:22 pm to Kafka
I TOLD you a-hole f@gs but would you listen to me? NO!!!
Al Pacino Thinks the First ‘Godfather’ Is “More Entertaining” Than ‘Part II’: “It’s Really Storytelling at Its Best”
Al Pacino Thinks the First ‘Godfather’ Is “More Entertaining” Than ‘Part II’: “It’s Really Storytelling at Its Best”
quote:I TOLD you assholes that GFII linearizes!!!
Rubenstein also asked Pacino if he thought The Godfather Part II was superior to The Godfather, to which the star replied, “No, I don’t. I really think it’s more — what would you call it — artistic or something, I don’t know. I don’t mean to play it down and be overly modest because I star in it with Bob de Niro, but at the same time, it’s a different film.”
“You see, The Godfather is more entertaining. Godfather II is this study, this personal thing for Francis [Ford Coppola],” Pacino continued. “Godfather I, I saw it recently, it’s always got two or three things going on in a scene. You’re always in the story, you’re going. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, it’s storytelling, it’s really storytelling at its best. Godfather II sort of linearizes, and [it’s] kind of different, somber, moves slowly.”
Posted on 4/22/23 at 2:37 pm to Kafka
RANK ‘EM - TV CLICHES
THE INEXPLICABLY HUGE APARTMENT
Let’s start with the obvious one, the famous “How the hell do they afford that?” apartment on “Friends”. But pretty much any TV character this side of Roseanne lives in relative comfort and splendor. Whether you write a sports column for a local newspaper or have some vaguely-defined job in “design” or “construction”, you can afford a two-story in suburbia or a multi-bedroom apartment in downtown Manhattan, interior decoration provided by Martha Stewart, apparently.
THE KILLER IS WEALTHY OR FAMOUS
“Law & Order” is a Rank ‘Em category all to itself.[Yessss!!] More often than not, a Dick Wolf-created criminal lives on Park Avenue and works on Wall Street, [and is white; black people do not commit crimes in the Law and Orderverse] unless they’re a famous actor/rapper/radio personality. TV Rich People never trust minions to do their dirty work. If there’s murdering to do, by golly, they’re gonna handle it themselves. (Not just on “L&O”: on “House of Cards”, the Vice President of the United States shoves a young woman to her death in the middle of a Metro station.)
THE REGULAR TABLE AT THE HANGOUT IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE
When the “Seinfeld” pals gather at Monk’s Diner, you have to wonder if the other “customers” in the background wonder to themselves, “How come I’m always sitting at the counter while those same four jerks always get that same perfect table?” The way that the “Friends” gang is allowed to lounge for hours on the cozy chairs and sofas of Central Perk, you’d think they owned the joint.
“PERIOD” TV SHOWS GIVE UP AFTER THE FIRST FEW SEASONS
Do you remember the first season of “Happy Days”? I actually do. It was a completely different show than what would follow for the next ten years. Besides adding a live studio audience and a whole lotta Fonzie, much less effort was put toward the actors’ “period-correct” look and there were far fewer references to Eisenhower. Anson Williams and Erin Moran, in particular, showed up on camera sporting 1970’s feathered/permed/shoulder-length do’s. Other shows guilty of such anachronism included “MASH” - while Michael Landon’s Pa Ingalls never allowed scissors near his groovy locks as he pretended to be a Minnesotan settler in the late 1870’s.
THE IDIOT BOSS
I’m going to express a possibly unpopular opinion here: I don’t like “The Office”, U.S. or British version. The bosses on both shows are insensitive, boorish assholes with whom I don’t wish to spend thirty minutes, let alone multiple seasons. ["a-hole" does not = "Idiot", you a-hole idiot] (Side observation: if the boss is stupid, he’s a man; if the boss is conniving and manipulative, she’s a woman.) That said, many people do think fondly of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”’s Alan Brady, or “MASH”’s Col. Henry Blake, so this is a trope that will be in no danger of getting laid off any time soon.
TV KIDS AND TEENAGERS
They talk like 40-year-old writers, with razor-sharp ripostes like “Chill out, dude!” or “Smell ya later!” They might also recite an entire monologue about The Meaning of Christmas (see above) or Why Racism Is Bad. They never say “like” or “uh” in their sentences. Their behavior can be maddeningly inconsistent: one episode may center around an 8-year-old’s genius-level understanding of computer programming or marital issues, while a few episodes later, the hunt will be on for a missing baby doll or teddy bear.
SMALL CHILDREN ARE INVISIBLE EXCEPT TO PROVIDE PUNCHLINES
I’ve only watched “Everybody Loves Raymond” a few times, but Ray and What’s’hername’s kids never seem to be around, especially whenever the Pushy In-Laws barge their way in to bicker over something. TV kids spend a lot of their time in their in school, at sleepovers, or generally napping somewhere offscreen. They apparently never make too much of a mess, just a few stray toys in the living room for the parent (usually the Mom) to pick up while in the midst of a petty spousal squabble.
SCHLUBBY GUY, HOT WIFE
Well-discussed, and deservedly so. Ralph and Alice Kramden set the early standard. A TV Man will almost always be married to a TV Woman who is half his weight and at least twice as conventionally attractive. Corollary: Female characters who are not, by limited societal standards, considered attractive -- for example, if they weigh more than 120 pounds or wear glasses -- will be paired up with a man who is more “her type”: dorky, overweight, or sporting a ridiculous haircut. She might also comically/painfully pine for the Conventionally Handsome Man in the cast, but he will remain oblivious.
THE CATCHPHRASE
Bang Zoom To the Moon Alice, You Got Some ‘Splaining to Do, Missed It By THAT Much, I Know No-ssing!, Dy-no-mite, Ayyyy, Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose, Kiss My Grits, What’choo Talkin’ About?, How YOU Doin’?, Did I Do that?, D-oh!, Bazinga, Yada Yada Yada. For a character to endure and be adored, they must have a catchphrase. And That’s the Way It Is.
THE COUSIN OUT OF NOWHERE
There are two known versions of this. (1) The previously-unacknowledged “best buddy” or a Cousin who is given center stage for an entire episode, while the usual main characters stand back to deliver a few punch-lines. This is what’s known in the business as a “back-door pilot” for a potential spin-off. (2) Cousins Out of Nowhere will sometimes come in after the eighth season or so, when our once-lovable sitcom tykes have gotten a bit long-in-the-tooth for plots revolving around crushes on Davy Jones or a belief in Santa Claus. There’s Cousin Oliver from “The Brady Bunch”, of course, though Ernie joined “My Three Sons” in its fifth season and would remain in the cast for seven more years. Fonzie’s “nephew” Chachi did okay for himself. But never forget: once Ted McGinley joins the cast of any long-running series, the countdown clock toward cancellation has been officially started.
GERIATRIC HIGH SCHOOLERS, PT. 2
For the final season of “Welcome Back Kotter”, I was seriously concerned that one of the Sweathogs might break a hip. On “Beverly Hills 90210”, Luke Perry’s brooding “teen” had some serious hairline issues, and Gabrielle Carteris was, I’m not kidding, 39 years old when that show ended its original run. That’s one thing “The Simpsons” always had going for it -- Bart and Lisa Simpson have not aged, literally, since 1989.
DADS ARE FUN, USELESS IDIOTS, MOMS ARE SMART NAGS
Need a partner for the school Pie Throwing Contest? TV Dad’s your guy. Who’s forcing you to clean out the garage while guilting Dad out of Bowling Night with his buddies? That’s TV Mom’s turf. TV Dad might be a perceived success outside of the house or at their vaguely defined job, but once in the bosom of his loved ones, he’s incapable of successfully screwing a light bulb in the proper direction. If a married couple takes an IQ test together, the “smart” one will do poorly while the “dumb” character will be by some fluke declared a genius. This screwy plot-line will culminate in poignant apologies and the acknowledgement that there are many different types of intelligence, and that everybody is good at something.
THE INEXPLICABLY HUGE APARTMENT
Let’s start with the obvious one, the famous “How the hell do they afford that?” apartment on “Friends”. But pretty much any TV character this side of Roseanne lives in relative comfort and splendor. Whether you write a sports column for a local newspaper or have some vaguely-defined job in “design” or “construction”, you can afford a two-story in suburbia or a multi-bedroom apartment in downtown Manhattan, interior decoration provided by Martha Stewart, apparently.
THE KILLER IS WEALTHY OR FAMOUS
“Law & Order” is a Rank ‘Em category all to itself.[Yessss!!] More often than not, a Dick Wolf-created criminal lives on Park Avenue and works on Wall Street, [and is white; black people do not commit crimes in the Law and Orderverse] unless they’re a famous actor/rapper/radio personality. TV Rich People never trust minions to do their dirty work. If there’s murdering to do, by golly, they’re gonna handle it themselves. (Not just on “L&O”: on “House of Cards”, the Vice President of the United States shoves a young woman to her death in the middle of a Metro station.)
THE REGULAR TABLE AT THE HANGOUT IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE
When the “Seinfeld” pals gather at Monk’s Diner, you have to wonder if the other “customers” in the background wonder to themselves, “How come I’m always sitting at the counter while those same four jerks always get that same perfect table?” The way that the “Friends” gang is allowed to lounge for hours on the cozy chairs and sofas of Central Perk, you’d think they owned the joint.
“PERIOD” TV SHOWS GIVE UP AFTER THE FIRST FEW SEASONS
Do you remember the first season of “Happy Days”? I actually do. It was a completely different show than what would follow for the next ten years. Besides adding a live studio audience and a whole lotta Fonzie, much less effort was put toward the actors’ “period-correct” look and there were far fewer references to Eisenhower. Anson Williams and Erin Moran, in particular, showed up on camera sporting 1970’s feathered/permed/shoulder-length do’s. Other shows guilty of such anachronism included “MASH” - while Michael Landon’s Pa Ingalls never allowed scissors near his groovy locks as he pretended to be a Minnesotan settler in the late 1870’s.
THE IDIOT BOSS
I’m going to express a possibly unpopular opinion here: I don’t like “The Office”, U.S. or British version. The bosses on both shows are insensitive, boorish assholes with whom I don’t wish to spend thirty minutes, let alone multiple seasons. ["a-hole" does not = "Idiot", you a-hole idiot] (Side observation: if the boss is stupid, he’s a man; if the boss is conniving and manipulative, she’s a woman.) That said, many people do think fondly of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”’s Alan Brady, or “MASH”’s Col. Henry Blake, so this is a trope that will be in no danger of getting laid off any time soon.
TV KIDS AND TEENAGERS
They talk like 40-year-old writers, with razor-sharp ripostes like “Chill out, dude!” or “Smell ya later!” They might also recite an entire monologue about The Meaning of Christmas (see above) or Why Racism Is Bad. They never say “like” or “uh” in their sentences. Their behavior can be maddeningly inconsistent: one episode may center around an 8-year-old’s genius-level understanding of computer programming or marital issues, while a few episodes later, the hunt will be on for a missing baby doll or teddy bear.
SMALL CHILDREN ARE INVISIBLE EXCEPT TO PROVIDE PUNCHLINES
I’ve only watched “Everybody Loves Raymond” a few times, but Ray and What’s’hername’s kids never seem to be around, especially whenever the Pushy In-Laws barge their way in to bicker over something. TV kids spend a lot of their time in their in school, at sleepovers, or generally napping somewhere offscreen. They apparently never make too much of a mess, just a few stray toys in the living room for the parent (usually the Mom) to pick up while in the midst of a petty spousal squabble.
SCHLUBBY GUY, HOT WIFE
Well-discussed, and deservedly so. Ralph and Alice Kramden set the early standard. A TV Man will almost always be married to a TV Woman who is half his weight and at least twice as conventionally attractive. Corollary: Female characters who are not, by limited societal standards, considered attractive -- for example, if they weigh more than 120 pounds or wear glasses -- will be paired up with a man who is more “her type”: dorky, overweight, or sporting a ridiculous haircut. She might also comically/painfully pine for the Conventionally Handsome Man in the cast, but he will remain oblivious.
THE CATCHPHRASE
Bang Zoom To the Moon Alice, You Got Some ‘Splaining to Do, Missed It By THAT Much, I Know No-ssing!, Dy-no-mite, Ayyyy, Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose, Kiss My Grits, What’choo Talkin’ About?, How YOU Doin’?, Did I Do that?, D-oh!, Bazinga, Yada Yada Yada. For a character to endure and be adored, they must have a catchphrase. And That’s the Way It Is.
THE COUSIN OUT OF NOWHERE
There are two known versions of this. (1) The previously-unacknowledged “best buddy” or a Cousin who is given center stage for an entire episode, while the usual main characters stand back to deliver a few punch-lines. This is what’s known in the business as a “back-door pilot” for a potential spin-off. (2) Cousins Out of Nowhere will sometimes come in after the eighth season or so, when our once-lovable sitcom tykes have gotten a bit long-in-the-tooth for plots revolving around crushes on Davy Jones or a belief in Santa Claus. There’s Cousin Oliver from “The Brady Bunch”, of course, though Ernie joined “My Three Sons” in its fifth season and would remain in the cast for seven more years. Fonzie’s “nephew” Chachi did okay for himself. But never forget: once Ted McGinley joins the cast of any long-running series, the countdown clock toward cancellation has been officially started.
GERIATRIC HIGH SCHOOLERS, PT. 2
For the final season of “Welcome Back Kotter”, I was seriously concerned that one of the Sweathogs might break a hip. On “Beverly Hills 90210”, Luke Perry’s brooding “teen” had some serious hairline issues, and Gabrielle Carteris was, I’m not kidding, 39 years old when that show ended its original run. That’s one thing “The Simpsons” always had going for it -- Bart and Lisa Simpson have not aged, literally, since 1989.
DADS ARE FUN, USELESS IDIOTS, MOMS ARE SMART NAGS
Need a partner for the school Pie Throwing Contest? TV Dad’s your guy. Who’s forcing you to clean out the garage while guilting Dad out of Bowling Night with his buddies? That’s TV Mom’s turf. TV Dad might be a perceived success outside of the house or at their vaguely defined job, but once in the bosom of his loved ones, he’s incapable of successfully screwing a light bulb in the proper direction. If a married couple takes an IQ test together, the “smart” one will do poorly while the “dumb” character will be by some fluke declared a genius. This screwy plot-line will culminate in poignant apologies and the acknowledgement that there are many different types of intelligence, and that everybody is good at something.
Posted on 7/3/23 at 2:38 pm to Kafka
Posted on 7/17/23 at 4:44 pm to Kafka
LINK ]Agee (1980)
A biographical documentary on Knoxville-born James Agee.
Agee (1909-1955) was one of the most notable men of letters ever produced in the South. He made significant impact as novelist, social historian, film critic, & screenwriter.
His posthumously published novel A Death In The Family won the Pulitzer Prize, & was dramatized/filmed as All The Way Home.
Agee's 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (in collaboration with photographer Walker Evans) examined the lives of three sharecropper families in Alabama. The Agee doc contains interviews with two ladies who had been photographed for the book as young women.
Agee had a deep interest in film. He was Life magazine's film critic and in 1949 wrote the classic essay "Comedy's Greatest Era", which revived interest in silent clowns in general & Buster Keaton in particular.
He also wrote screenplays, working on The African Queen (John Huston is interviewed in the doc) & The Night Of The Hunter. He also wrote an unproduced script for Charlie Chaplin.
A biographical documentary on Knoxville-born James Agee.
Agee (1909-1955) was one of the most notable men of letters ever produced in the South. He made significant impact as novelist, social historian, film critic, & screenwriter.
His posthumously published novel A Death In The Family won the Pulitzer Prize, & was dramatized/filmed as All The Way Home.
Agee's 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (in collaboration with photographer Walker Evans) examined the lives of three sharecropper families in Alabama. The Agee doc contains interviews with two ladies who had been photographed for the book as young women.
Agee had a deep interest in film. He was Life magazine's film critic and in 1949 wrote the classic essay "Comedy's Greatest Era", which revived interest in silent clowns in general & Buster Keaton in particular.
He also wrote screenplays, working on The African Queen (John Huston is interviewed in the doc) & The Night Of The Hunter. He also wrote an unproduced script for Charlie Chaplin.
Posted on 8/2/23 at 6:11 pm to Kafka
Posted on 8/5/23 at 12:51 am to Kafka
quote:
Cris Shapan works in the film industry as a graphics designer. But his genius is best shown in his reimaginings of pop culture visuals from the postwar era, especially his brilliant reworkings of lurid '50s paperback covers.
Posted on 9/7/23 at 9:50 pm to Kafka
quote:
Cris Shapan works in the film industry as a graphics designer. But his genius is best shown in his reimaginings of pop culture visuals from the postwar era, especially his brilliant reworkings of lurid '50s paperback covers.
Posted on 9/13/23 at 5:14 pm to Kafka
TV's GOAT private eye show debuted 49 years ago today
Posted on 10/4/23 at 2:42 pm to Kafka
quote:
Cris Shapan works in the film industry as a graphics designer. But his genius is best shown in his reimaginings of pop culture visuals from the postwar era, especially his brilliant reworkings of lurid '50s paperback covers
Posted on 11/14/23 at 6:28 pm to Kafka
Not Cris Shapan but Jim Rugg
Posted on 12/20/23 at 8:20 pm to Kafka
Posted on 12/23/23 at 7:31 pm to Kafka
50 Very Bad Book Covers for Literary Classics
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When a book passes into the public domain, it means not only that it’s available for adapting and remixing, but for reprinting and reselling with a brand new cover. Some of these covers are . . . pretty bad. Which, obviously, makes them very fun to look at.
quote:My faves:
All of these covers are “real,” that is, attached to books that are at least nominally available for purchase, though many are digital covers for digital editions.
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You may also notice that The Picture of Dorian Gray seems to inspire the most bad covers.
Posted on 2/8/24 at 6:08 pm to Kafka
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