Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social)

Comms and digital media by day | transforms into a comics/media researcher precisely at twilight

words: @scroll_in, CC | ex-publicist of books at @ju_press

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

Goodbye Marjane: my obituary for @scroll_in. Link in replies.

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

you get what you pay for, upfront and in residuals (or lack thereof)

[rob @RobertSecundus]

i will never understand how people that used to make a dozen episodes a year struggle to even *write* 8-9 now over a few years

[Rahul Desai @ReelReptile]

Wrote about the great Naseeruddin Shah through the lens of *that* performance in Main Vaapas Aaunga:

https://t.co/ZQloval9nq

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

@filipefurtado @ohiojesustwink good shit, I love The Fabelmans but your description and placement of it

[Filipe Furtado @filipefurtado]

On late Spielberg, his shifting critical reputation and Disclosure Day: https://t.co/dGRI5wwyN9

[Austin @awoodustin]

If you get off on shots in movies where they use reflections in windows to create multilayered images, Like your just jacking your shit any time the frame utilizes depth, you will not make it through Discourse Day. You’ll be kicked out of the theater, maybe even jailed

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

@saintsoftness Rather partial to the whimsy of the 2005 editions but hot pink and fluorescent green also look quite striking

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

Disjointed film, nowhere near as tightly made as Chamkila but made to thin the apathy of even those it bores out of their minds. Main Waapas Aaonga.

[The Black Casebook @BlackCasebook]

Tired: Disliking Alan Moore for his objectively correct assessment of the comics industry and valid critique of superheroes

Wired: Disliking Moore for his false humility (google FIGJAM Phil Mickelson)

Inspired: Disliking Moore because of those stupid rhyming snakes in Promethea

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

@the7424 Stupid question but what is the procedure for entry if one is an independent scholar

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

Bilge Ebiri has put together this cracker of an oral history (one of the greatest of its kind) on Steven Spielberg.
https://t.co/K1rxK4vroh

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

I interviewed Joe Sacco the last time he was in India, before his new book released. There was a sense that he knew what was coming, tbh.

https://t.co/NiMymk2m80

[NS Ramnath @rmnth]

Sad to know Penguin decided not to distribute Joe Sacco’s latest book in India. It’s on Muzaffarnagar Riots. Penguin said it had a wrong version of the Indian map.

In case you haven’t read Joe Sacco, he is just brilliant. Here are some of his books in my shelf.

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

@RunaChat93 (I told them)

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

This is a shockingly good @nybooks essay on Dumas and The Count of Monte Cristo by Michael Dirda. (if you think you have read the book, you probably haven’t. The full version is more than 1,200 pages.)

https://t.co/EENIPaKcBF

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

@saintsoftness @TheLincoln I am not slagging you off, I just happen to disagree with what you say and how you say it. I also happen to have actually worked on the publishing end as well: in the long arc of history a book will always find its audience and better covers. So peace.

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

@saintsoftness @TheLincoln You are still replying to me here, what is the issue. Don't call names without knowing reasons why people do things (DM me i will tell you). For the rest, I have no interest in gatekeeping a book's audience. I respect your work but I think you are fighting several strawmen here.

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

@saintsoftness @TheLincoln Never will I unfollow you because I happen to disagree with you.

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

3. Yes I have read Osip Mandelstam and no, I refuse to speak about it further. The point still stands.

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

1. Give Gene Wolfe all the pulp covers, the readership that will pick it up are exactly those that his writing ambushes. Those that shun his work because of how they present themselves deserve to be bereft of his genius.

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

This book opens with a perceptive selection of lines from Osip Mandelstam about death and is as much about the fragmented nature of personal-historical knowledge and what constitutes technology as anything else, but the cover does it dirty. Spec Fic needs better covers.

[Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava.bsky.social) @haroonava]

2. And, finally, criticism that gatekeeps opinion on the basis of intertextual games should remember that speaking to readers and publishers is not the same thing. The critic can be a prescriptive curator (film critics do it all the time) but browbeating is not discourse.

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

All of #MarjaneSatrapi's work is held together by a single, unfashionable conviction: that drawing oneself goes beyond documenting narcissism or injury to an act of accountability.

https://t.co/JgGreRwY19

Arunava Banerjee (@haroonava) remembers the Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker.