A banner featuring Karl Marx, with the Marx Memorial Library building behind him. Photograph Paul Halas An Archive of Ideas to Change the World by Paul Halas Housed in an elegant eighteenth century building in Clerkenwell, the Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School contains a comprehensive collection of books, pamphlets,…
Category: Paul Halas
Art
MEETING BING SHI
Portrait of Bing Shi by Andy Hall by Paul Halas For all its many faults social media sometimes provides us with gems, and the paintings of artist Bing Shi have for us been one of the highlights on Facebook this year. Working in oils, with bold, sweeping brushstrokes that fail…
Comics
HOW DONALD DUCK SAVED MY LIFE…probably
COMICS – THE SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT By Paul Halas To this day there’s still an intellectual snobbery about comics in the UK, which is a shame as no other medium can communicate so well with so much economy. On mainland Europe, in the USA, in countries throughout Asia, comics…
Global warming
Where’s your vision Sir Keir?
By Paul Halas The blame game continues. Meanwhile… While the general public and the media obsess about Coronavirus – both those who are terrified of it and the others who think the whole issue’s blown out of proportion – and while the planet is steadily passing various tipping points of…
Bristol Omnibus Company
THE SLIDE TOWARDS TYRANNY
Oswald Mosley, leader of the British fascists, in Birmingham with working class supporters The left has got to get its act together by PAUL HALAS As if we needed it, the recent “Unite the Kingdom” march was a deeply alarming wake-up call for anyone opposed to fascism. Labour MP Clive…
Anders And & Co
A CONVERSATION WITH PACO RODRIGUEZ
The Disney Universe is illustrated by Paco Rodríguez Interviewer: Paul Halas (with Phil Hall) Generations of children – and parents – have grown up reading the various Disney comics magazines, from the USA, to Europe, to Africa and to Asia. They’ve been a fondly-remembered part of childhood for many (for…
addiction
BOOZE
Booze, photo by Cottonbro Studio pexels How does someone who’s adequately intelligent, and too aware of the risks, fall into alcohol addiction? by Paul Halas Beneath it all alcohol is another drug. The drug of preference for much of the world – bar the quarter of the global population who…
Abingdon
A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID MELLING
From Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles, ©David Melling Interview by Paul Halas The choice of illustrated children’s books available is dazzling, almost bewilderingly so, but for every generation of kids and parents looking for something special there are a few illustrators and writers who stand out from the crowd. Whose…
AN Editions
Excerpt: The Rights of Man and Fish
Cover of The Rights of Man and Fish – illus. Pete Field a novel by Paul Halas, illustrated by Pete Field and published by AN Editions Bienvenue, welcome…. So you’re the reporter from La Dépêche…. You speak English? That’s a relief…. Well, I’ve been here – what is it? Four?…
Al Hirschfield
IN CONVERSATION WITH TOM BACHTELL
King Donald, ©Tom Bachtell Paul Halas — interview with Halas & Hall Anyone who has seen a copy of The New Yorker over the past thirty or so years will be familiar with the work of Tom Bachtell. He’s the guy who created so many of the wonderful caricatures that…
Ajahn Chah
Letters from America: Dave Blazer
The Politics of the USA are Unreal . Dear Dave, Over here in Europe we’ve been almost saturated with news about the USA presidential election and its aftermath to date, and I think it’s fair to say that a great many of us have looked on with various degrees of…
Andrew Birch
MEETING ANDREW BIRCH
The Ascent of Man (Backbiter) ©Andrew Birch by Paul Halas . Anyone who has read Private Eye over the past few decades will be familiar with Andrew Birch’s cartoons, similarly his work has regularly appeared in The Oldie, The Guardian, The Observer, The Big Issue, The Sunday Times, The Independent……
Art
SKY, SEA AND VELD
Dirt Road to Hanover, Karoo © Walter Voigt 2024 WALTER VOIGT’S PAINTINGS OF SOUTH AFRICA by Paul Halas While some painters need a sense of detachment to produce their best work, others can’t but help show a sense of intimacy with their subjects. This is mainly true with artists and…
Community
A Plop in the Ocean
Are offshore tankers a temporary solution to the sewage crisis? by Paul Halas, Phil Hall, Steve Parker, Nicole Stocks, Karl Rutledge . . Officially, the United Kingdom ceased to be a developing country when Sir Joseph Bazalgette CB, a descendent of French Huguenots, designed a new sewage system to solve…
Art
THE RIGHTS OF MAN & FISH
An introduction to The Rights of Man and Fish by Paul Halas History is bunk, to quote Henry Ford – which, of course, ignores the wider context of what he said, but then he wanted to sell us motor cars and probably wasn’t all that interested in the truth of…
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