Author: Anneke
New hand made: Dimitrie Stelaru – The Magical Tree
Sea Urchin has just published another English translation of a poem by Romanian Dimitrie Stelaru (1917-1971). Stelaru’s poem Copacul magic (The Magical Tree) was first published in the literary magazine Preocupări literare in 1942 and included in Stelaru’s landmark compilation Ora fantastică (The Fantastic Hour) two years later. In his preface The Planet of a new Poet to that compilation, the influential…
Dimitrie Stelaru – The Magical Tree
Vagabond poet Dimitrie Stelaru was born in 1917 as Dumitru Petrescu in Romania’s border region with Bulgaria. He never knew his biological father, who was killed in action during World War I, and developed such a bad relationship with his stepfather that he was sent to a strict Christian boarding school in Transylvania at the age of fourteen. Stelaru escaped the institute’s austere regime a couple of years later and vanished into the fringe of…
Destroy All Monsters – Swamp Gas
New collectible: Robert Crumb – Zap Comix No. 0
In late 1968, shortly before Zap #3 was to be published, Robert Crumb found Xerox copies of the missing pages from the original Zap #1, which (according to Victor Moscoso) successfully captured the linework but not the solid blacks. After being re-inked by Crumb, those strips subsequently appeared as Zap #0. Thus Zap #0 became the third in the series, even though it was drawn before #1 in 1967…







