Fear and Loathing in the Gulf
This isn’t quite a graphic novel, more a series of images with running commentary. The drawings cover the most memorable moments of Fitzy’s life, many of them illustrated anecdotes of his time in the services and beyond. The style is somewhere between squaddie jokes and raver jokes. Even during the Gulf war, there is a rim of canehead humour to it all, particularly the incident where Fitzy trips out on regulation meds under the desert sun. ‘[The commander] told me that the ones I had taken were for the likes of gunshot wounds and he also realised that I wasn’t fit to drive.’
Max Dunbar reviews Glenn Fitzpatrick‘s Arts and Mines.
Urban film
The Bartlett UFS are running a series of events on urban film in association with PocketVisions, starting this afternoon. Of particular interest, Sandra Shevey‘s talk, ‘Alfred Hitchcock’s London Odyssey: Location Art in the Capital’, at the Westminster Reference Library and En Construcción at the Architecture Foundation, as part of the Architecture on Film Season. Full […]