Author archives for Paul Morris

Paul Morris is BOMB’s general manager of digital media & marketing.

Abe’s Penny

June 1, 2010 – 4:19 pm

For the first installment of Skeuomorphisms (yes, we had to google it too), Paul Morris talks to Anna and Tess Knoebel about Abe’s Penny, a micro-literary journal that subscribers receive in the form of a new postcard each week.

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Portraiture of the Artists

November 13, 2009 – 4:43 pm

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Shakespeare and Company, the legendary English-language bookstore on Paris’s Left Bank, recently got a facelift. Several faces, in fact. Fourteen illustrated portraits of the Lost and Beat Generation writers who once frequented the store—and its predecessor—now adorn the staircase wall leading up to the second floor library of the bookshop. An interview with Badaude—the illustrator Joanna Walsh—with a slideshow of her mural as a work-in-progress.

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The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb

October 19, 2009 – 12:29 pm

R. Crumb, frame from THE BOOK OF GENESIS ILLUSTRATED, 2009. Courtesy W.W. Norton & Company. For the last five years, Robert Crumb, the father of underground comix, has been laboring over a graphic retelling of the first book of the Bible.

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Marc Orleans’ Nuthin’ But The Blues and the Bluefly Kid

April 14, 2009 – 1:10 pm

I shot this 26-second video with my camera phone this morning at the Bergen St. stop and uploaded it to Facebook on my way to work. Within less than an hour, several people had posted about it, with comments ranging from “That’s pretty darn cute” to “I hereby dub this manner of dance ‘Bluefly.’” A [...]

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