Grab a fellow book worm, pour some tea, and get comfy.
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Thursday, March 5, 2015
23 Kids Who Are Completely Bossing World Book Day
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“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest” – C.S. Lewis.
These two, from Roald Dahl's The Twits.
This White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland.
Plus there's the Mad Hatter...
13 "Walking Dead" Characters Vs Their Comic Book Equivalents
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, March 05, 2015
Here’s how Walking Dead’s TV characters compare to their comic counterparts.
AMC Studios / Image Comics
AMC Studios / Image Comics
17 Sex Scenes In Graphic Novels
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Comic stripped.
Kristen Radtke
Soon after comics found mainstream American success during World War II, when the country took solace in starred and striped superheroes and thinly veiled political manifestos, the Comics Code Authority was formed. The organization allowed comic book publishers to regulate their content in an alternative to government control, and what is commonly called "the Comics Code" took a clear line: "Illicit sex relations are neither to be hinted at nor portrayed. Violent love scenes as well as sexual abnormalities are unacceptable." The mere mention of homosexuality in mainstream American comics was forbidden by the code until 1989.
Such restrictions lead to the birth of the underground and alternative comix movement — comics published by independent presses or, quite often, by artists xeroxing, stapling, and distributing their work themselves. Thus began an underground revolution, wherein artists could create and share work that represented lifestyles truer to their own. What started as a small-scale movement gained such momentum that larger publishers began taking notice, and many underground artists later gained critical success in mainstream comics publishing.
From awkward adolescent encounters to positive portrayals of LGBTQ relationships, these 17 contemporary sex scenes in graphic novels continue in the bold underground tradition that started more than 60 years ago.
1. Julie Maroh
Blue is the Warmest Color (Arsenal Pulp Press) / Julie Maroh / Via arsenalpulp.com
What's Your Favorite Line From A Children's Book?
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“Today you are you, that is truer than true.”
For many of us, the books we grew up reading left a lasting impression on us.
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Maybe the words of Dr. Seuss taught you that it was OK to be yourself.
Or Roald Dahl's Matilda reminded you that beauty comes from within.
Perhaps Alice In Wonderland made you question the world you lived in.
This Twitter Account Brilliantly Captures The Ridiculousness Of Guys From Teen Fiction
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, March 05, 2015
“My family doesn’t love me, but I don’t want to talk about it.”
The account, @BroodingYAHero, brilliantly points out the absurdities of the heroes of these books, who always manage to sweep the heroine off her feet despite being kind of lame.
i-cant-change-without-you.tumblr.com / Via Giphy.com
seriously-saranghae.tumblr.com / Via Giphy
How A Blue Elephant Named Peanut Sparked The Beanie Baby Craze
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Meet the stuffed animal that started it all.
Dan Meth / Via BuzzFeed
On June 3, 1995, Ty Inc. released a royal-blue-colored Beanie Baby named Peanut the elephant.
The suburban Chicago small business had been selling the line of five dollar animals for the past year and a half. Sales had been so poor that stores told Ty Warner, the company's owner, that they would only buy Beanie Babies six at a time — instead of in the twelve-packs he was offering on his order forms. Even then, most buyers passed. Ty was unfazed. "Most retailers don't know what they're doing," he wrote in a note to an employee. "When retailers are angry with you, it means you have a good product."
At first, Peanut did nothing to substantiate Warner's instincts. Entrepreneurs of lesser conviction might have moved onto their next idea, but Ty wasn't done.
Four months after Peanut was released, Ty reached a decision: He would change her color, taking her fur from royal blue to baby blue.
The change was part of an ethos that Warner's ex-girlfriend Patricia Roche, who'd been with him when he started selling plush animals out of his condo in the mid-1980s, remembers as his "never-ending striving for a perfect that doesn't exist." Warner once proclaimed that "Even perfection has room for improvement," and Roche remembers the eight hours that Warner once spent taking a photo of a single stuffed cat for his company's catalog.
In the case of Peanut, punctiliousness paid off. In the span of less than three years, the decision to change Peanut's color after only a couple thousand royal blue ones had shipped would, perhaps more than any other decision he ever made, propel Warner from small-time toy baron to the richest man in the history of the industry.
Prototypes for Ty Warner's "Nana," a now valuable Beanie Baby.
Via Zac Bissonnette
By the beginning of 1996, four months after Peanut's color changed, Beanie Babies were taking off as a popular toy in Chicago's northern suburbs. Ty Inc. was shipping more than half of the Beanie Babies it sold to retailers within Illinois, and their popularity was spreading without the benefit of any advertising. That was unusual in an era when virtually all popular toys were promoted on television.
In an embodiment of the consumerism-focused soccer mom culture that defined 1990s America, the collecting was quickly taken over by mothers. What had been a children's toy was to become, as Dave Barry put it in a 1998 column on the Beanie craze, "an obsessive, grotesquely over-commercialized 'hobby' with the same whimsy content as the Bataan Death March."
15 Books By Transgender Women You Need To Read Immediately
Posted by Unknown on Thursday, March 05, 2015
From science-fiction novellas to cookbook memoirs, it’s never too late to discover a new favorite read!
Charlie Jane Anders via sfweekly.com
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