Hank Kennedy

Dec 9, 2024 | solrad.co | Hagai Palevsky |Elias Rosner |Nicholas Burman |Hank Kennedy

There are, broadly speaking, two ways to listen to the 1968 song “Do It Again” by the Beach Boys. If you listen to it on its own, paying little attention to the rest of the Beach Boys’ discography up until that point, then all you’re getting is an effort that, though largely straightforward, is incredibly charming and compelling, a highlight of late-’60s pop-rock.

Dec 2, 2024 | solrad.co | Elias Rosner |Nicholas Burman |Hank Kennedy |Hagai Palevsky

Mary Tyler MooreHawk opens, after a publisher’s note about a fictional other publisher, with an introduction from Dave Baker, ostensibly the artist behind this graphic novel, informing us that, no, he did not create this book. It was mailed to him from the future. We learn, eventually, that a different Dave Baker – TWO Dave Bakers, in fact – from the future – a future? – created the contents of Mary Tyler MooreHawk. Perhaps one of them is future him. Perhaps not. It’s unclear. That is fine.

Nov 21, 2024 | solrad.co | Hank Kennedy

What would the future of the world look like without bees? Bees are vital to securing our food supply. We could live in a paradise where insects, especially bees pollinate fragrant seas of flowers whose fruits we harvest. Instead, vast lawns are now replacing flower gardens, and agriculture is characterized by monocultures. Pesticides and climate change are also causing insect mortality, with dramatic consequences for the global ecosystem.

Nov 18, 2024 | solrad.co | Nicholas Burman |Hank Kennedy |Hagai Palevsky |Alex Hoffman

The horror genre often draws on illness and disease as a thematic vein made (meta)physical through metaphor. See, for example, how Coppola, in his rendition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, draws attention to how the vampire trope is related to our concerns regarding diseases transmitted by blood. Maybe it is because an illness itself feels alien, so much like an invasion or attack upon our corporal sovereignty, that it is so pregnant with possibilities for those who produce horror.

Nov 11, 2024 | solrad.co | Hank Kennedy

How do you write a biography for someone about whom many basic details, including even their real name and date of birth, are unknown? If that sounds like an impossible task, then you must grant that comics writer and artist Golo has done the impossible with B. Traven: Portrait of a Famous Unknown, originally published in French in 2007, then translated into English by Donald Nicholson-Smith and published by PM Press this year.