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Gerry Barney’s logo for British Rail. A page from the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual<\/a> (1965).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 RIP Russ Kick<\/a>, writer, editor, and founder of many websites\/blogs such as Rare Erotica<\/a>, Books Are People Too<\/a> and (notoriously) the several iterations of The Memory Hole<\/a>, a space dedicated to keeping visible information that successive US governments would have preferred to remain unseen. I’d known Russ remotely for many years, initially as a reviewer of the Savoy comics in Outposts<\/em>. Savoy Books later helped find him a publisher for Psychotropedia: A Guide to Publications on the Periphery<\/em>, a wide-ranging overview of alternative\/underground print culture in the late 1990s. In 2004 his information activism gave him a fleeting taste of world-wide attention when he forced the Bush administration to make public the photos of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq. The scandal put his name on the front pages of newspapers that should have been finding those photos for themselves instead of cheerleading the war. A run of books for Disinformation presented his archival researches for the general reader, then in 2012 he edited The Graphic Canon<\/em><\/a>, a massive three-volume collection of comics and illustrations based on classic works of literature. I was among the many contributors to the latter with an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>, and would have worked on the follow-up collection of crime stories if I hadn’t been busy with other things. I had hoped that we might work together again in the future.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “‘The new mainstream has attempted to erase the innovations of the avant-garde from jazz history,’ the film declares.” Geeta Dayal<\/a> reviews Fire Music<\/em>, a documentary about the jazz innovations of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

\u2022 I don’t have the hardware to play this but Sable<\/em><\/a> is a new computer game from Raw Fury whose design owes much to the desert landscapes seen in comics by Moebius.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New\/old music: Stealing Sheep and The Radiophonic Workshop<\/a> reimagine the score for Ren\u00e9 Laloux’s animated science-fiction film La Plan\u00e8te Sauvage<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Spine: Savannah Cordova<\/a> on how to perfect your book cover\u2019s typography. Having recently designed an all-type cover design this is timely.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: Isolatedmix 113 by Sunju Hargun<\/a>, XLR8R Podcast 714 by Soela<\/a>, and Holograficzne Widmo ze Bart De Paepe by David Colohan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Gerry Barney<\/a>, designer of the British Rail logo, doesn’t like the green reworking of his design.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Scottish lord goes blood simple: a teaser for The Tragedy of Macbeth<\/em><\/a> by Joel Cohen and some bloke called William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “It’s unmanageable.” Ellen Peirson-Hagger<\/a> on how the vinyl industry reached breaking point.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Macbeth<\/em><\/a> (1973) by John Cale | Rail<\/em><\/a> (1994) by Main | Logotone<\/em><\/a> (2013) by Steve Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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