Oct 27: Politics and Prose book group discusses Tintin

The Politics and Prose book group will meet October 27th at 7:30pm, reading Tintin in Tibet.

Following that, the titles planned are:

Black Hole by Charles Burns

City of Glass by Auster and Karasik

Market Day by James Sturm

From Hell by Moore and Campbell

The Fixer by Joe Sacco

Gene Kannenberg, friend of ComicsDC, on radio, on Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin
WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO's Here on Earth AUGUST 19, 2010
http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_100819k.cfm
http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/podcast/hereonearth100819k.mp3

Dirda on Herge

The unheroic genius behind the adventures of Tintin
By Michael Dirda
Washington Post November 26, 2009

Tintin Banned in Brooklyn

See "An Intrepid Cartoon Reporter, Bound for the Big Screen but Shut in a Library Vault," By Alison Leigh Cowan
New York Times (August 20, 2009): A21. The story appeared on their blog yesterday as "A Library's Approach to Books That Offend, New York Times City Room blog August 19, 2009, http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/a-librarys-approach-to-books-that-offend/?ref=nyregion

Kal designs new board game

The subject line "Kal designs new board game" sucked me right into the email:

If your financial indicators are looking down, there is one way to pick your spirits up. Play "Credit Crunch", the new board game launched in this week's Christmas double edition of The Economist. The game (designed and created by Kal ) is also available to all online. Go to

www.Economist.com/boardgame

to download the board, currency, playing cards, rules, and player icons.

Let me know if you play the game and how it works out. We can tweak the rules with feedback from readers.

Oh, man, I just love this stuff. I'll be assembling one of these babies. There's a hard copy in the December 20th issue, as well as a Tintin article.