Soap Bubble (1882) by Alexandre-Blaise Desgoffe. Via.
• “…there is not now, has never been, and will never be a single Platonic form of the paragraph to which all others must conform.” Richard Hughes Gibson on the history of the paragraph.
• At Spoon & Tamago: imaginary covers by international illustrators for The Tokyoiter, a New Yorker-style magazine about the Japanese capital.
• New music: tick tick tick by Stephen Mallinder, and A Vibrant Touch by Aleksandra Slyz.
The Kat had a cult following among the modernists. For Joyce, Fitzgerald, Stein, and Picasso, all of whose work fed on playful energies similar to those unleashed in the strip, he had a double appeal, in being commercially nonviable and carrying the reek of authenticity in seeming to belong to mass culture. By the thirties, strips like Blondie were appearing daily in roughly a thousand newspapers; Krazy appeared in only thirty-five. The Kat was one of those niche-but-not-really phenomena, a darling of critics and artists alike, even after it stopped appearing in newspapers.
Amber Medland on George Herriman, EE Cummings and Krazy Kat
• 35mm.online: Polish feature films, documentaries and animations, all free to view.
• At Dennis Cooper’s: Spotlight on…Georges Bataille Erotism: Death and Sensuality.
• Inside the Espai Corberó, the home/gallery of the late Xavier Corberó.
• Strange Attractor Journal Five.
• RIP Claes Oldenburg.
• Krazy Kat (1928) by Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra | Krazy Kat (1949) by Artie Shaw | Krazy Kat (1975) by Teddy Lasry
R.I.P. Oldenburg; another man down.
“Soap Bubble” is exquisite, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
The Polish film app looks most promising (at the very least, there’s lots of animation to get through and its free until late August)
It hardly needs saying, but long may the kult of the Kat endure.