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Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling

March 9, 2011 3410

Just announced on Tuesday by The Future of Music Coalition is the release through Duke University Press of the long-in-the-works book “Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling“. The book seems to be a bit the textbook...

Comics Comics Takes Over TCJ.com & Arthur Magazine Closes

March 7, 2011 3258

Fantagraphics Books’ long running magazine of comics news, criticism and whatnot, The Comics Journal, officially handed over the curation of it’s interwebs iteration TCJ.com to the motley band at Comics Comics. Re-launched on Sunday...

I Cover the Waterfront South Bay Punks

March 3, 2011 2618

As of this Wednesday, I have officially rejoined the ranks of Maximum RockNRoll‘s crew of shitworkers. Yes, that is the official job title. I was a zine reviewer, shitworker and occasional illustrator for MRR in the middle 1990’s. I...

Swipe File – Paul Rand gets Jacked

February 21, 2011 2612

There used to be a great feature in the magazine The Comics Journal called the swipe file, where a classic piece of comic art was held up next to a more recent piece that usually resembled it a bit too much to be mere coincidence. The best know...

Grickle: The World of Graham Annable

February 20, 2011 4678

I’m pretty new to the works of cartoonist/animator Graham Annable; and, I came to it from a very strange direction. I’d had some peripheral knowledge of his comics work from Alternative Press in his Grickle comics and the Hickee...

Quick Hits for a Thursday

February 17, 2011 3078

Some vital recent cultural moments you may have missed. The multi-talented Mark Sunshine (singer of Monster Magnet splinter faction Riot God and an artist most awesome) has updated his site again. Minimal, bold, and links to greatness. Sam...

SVA Comic Jams no. 2

January 26, 2011 4626

Comic story in overlapping panels. SVA Jam from 1987 featuring the usual suspects Contributions by: Paul Komoda, Tom Hart, the late Burt Schlatter, Susan Cotter, Sam Henderson, Amantha Tsaros, Ben Jackson, Seth W. Rosenfeld, ion, Mikko Meronen...

SVA Comic Jams no. 1

January 25, 2011 2865

Straight from 23rd Street from over 20 years ago, we present the first in an irregular series of vintage School of Visual Arts cartoon art jams. These will mainly be from the late-80’s crew of people that were affiliated with the popular...

Lost Awesome Book Cover Designs

January 23, 2011 3480

I’ve been accumulating these for about a year. Various books that were picked up at garage sales and library sales because the cover art was just so great. On all but a couple of them I have to admit that the initial thrill faded over...

Monday Office Playlist

January 18, 2011 4216

Today I got to shoot some new costumes designed by Nurse Dylan aka Psycho Shango (of Psycho Nurse Calendar fame) that are for the brilliant Breedlove and my fellow Brown Cuts Neighbor Lady Starlight. In the photo studio at Wow Cool we strictly...

Jesse Kimball on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives

January 16, 2011 3134

Once upon a time in the early 1990s I got together with a young Hampshire college student and punk rock juggernaut named Jesse Kimball and Western Connecticut ne’er do well Steve Dore (late of Maude, more recently of Casual Dots & Deep...

The Beauty of Urban Decay

January 3, 2011 4287

First, Look at this: Gabba Gabba Hey. OK, hopefully you have now visited your happy place and we can continue with this brief survey of recently-sprung documentation of the 20th century’s monuments in collapse. First up, the Guardian...