I found in a book sale and eventually read “Trapped on Zarkass”, a 2022 English adaptation of “Piège sur Zarkass”, a 2013 Science Fiction comic book based on an eponymous 1958 novel I read in my youth. The result is somewhat entertaining, yet the thought it inspires me is: Oh how the mighty have fallen.

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Last year, my friend Greg Bodylski with whom I worked on Bastiat.org sent me this drawing he made. English translated transcript follows.


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Nationalists, Socialists and other Statists always celebrate how military conquest, forceful union, violent revolutions, decolonization wars, and other glorious events have brought to the world the wonders of...


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I've accumulated ideas for a short libertarian comic strip, and I am looking for an artist to illustrate them. If I can't find one, I may buy myself a tablet and try to draw my own stick-figure comic strip...

So I told this liberal colleague about my speaking at a Libertarian conference in Europe. They must be loaded was his immediate reaction. How much cognitive dissonance must it take to establish who's promoting the Synopsis, and who are the dissenters speaking truth to power?

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Two radically opposed comic books: on the one hand, "City of Glass" (1994) by Paul Auster, masterfully adapted into a graphical novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli. On the other hand, "Siberia" (2006), by Nikolai Maslov, an amateur artist (originally published in French in 2004 as "Une Jeunesse Soviétique").

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I love Yukito Kishiro's japanese comic book series Gunnm (tastelessly published in the US as Battle Angel Alita). It is not just another ultraviolent scifi superfighter story ( Read more... )

Comics review: Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.

I liked their take on The Punisher. I was unimpressed by many other things they did. But I was wowed by PreacherPreacher is every I hate, put together in a way I can but love ( Read more... )

J'ai décidé que dorénavant, je publierais davantage de liens sur mon blog.

Sur l'actualité, les cocasseries du non, par notre Citoyen Durable. (Pas étonnant qu'il soit durablement citoyen, vu que notre État refuse de reconnaître votre rejet de sa citoyenneté si vous n'avez pas précédemment fait acte de soumission à un autre État ( Read more... )

Since I've been discussing the Law of Bitur-Camember by email, I translated to English the comic strip from which it got its name. I appreciate your remarks to improve the translation.