
This month's brain food mostly concerns: Nato, squat parties, graffiti, misery, humour, drawings, biography, philosophy and the significance of the goat in black magic.NATO – THE MILITARY CODIFICATION SYSTEM FOR THE ORDERING OF EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD
Suzanne Treister
Black Dog Publishing

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blog.betteroffdead.co.uk/THE URBAN TRAVELLER'S SKETCHBOOK
King Adz and Hush
Thames & Hudson

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Fantagraphics There is a time, place, and mood where Adrian Tomine, the Hernandez brothers and whoever else does thoughtful graphic fiction can happily come and entertain me. But then there are times when I just want to read about rugged GIs smashing the living shit out of tanks, throwing grenades 200 metres, and burning whinging Fritz and his white flag. And if that's the mood I am in then Joe Kubert is my guy. Kubert is the man behind Sgt. Rock, Hawkman, Tarzan, numerous tough-guy Vikings, warriors, cops and ghouls and has his whole career laid out in this book. Considering it started in 1938 and he is still at it, it is as concise as it is amazing.
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Thames & HudsonThis is a lot like the first volume except of course totally different because it chronicles the whole of 2008, not 2007. One thing that strikes you immediately about this collection of work from Reuters' vast global network of snappers is that there's a lot of violence, pain, war and misery going on. Frankly though, that shouldn't come as much of a shock. The other thing that stands out is that the only things that happen on this planet that aren't cruel and/or evil are celebrities laughing and politicians dancing, apparently.
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Dokument I went straight to the London section at the back to read the chapter on TOX. I couldn't really give a toss about some guy doing 400-foot 3D pieces in Europe, but as I have to look at TOX's tags every day of my life I was pretty interested in reading up on him. I'm not sure if the writer went to a different London from the one I've been living in for the last 20 years, because his one sounds terrifying: The Man is spying on you through your Oyster Card, "crack use is widespread", and all the kids have pistols and shoot bikes. Yup, that's London. Anyway, while the Urban Traveller's Sketchbook is total shite if you are actually interested in graffiti, this is mildly interesting. So get this one if you absolutely must get a book about graffiti which has been reviewed on Viceland in May 2009.
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Alain De Boton
Penguin

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Self-released

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Esther Pearl Watson
Fantagraphics Books

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Self-released

squinxzine@gmail.comTHE UNHOLY HAND 2
Self-released

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David Cullen
Old Street Publishing

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