Commercial culture depends on the theft of intellectual property for its livelihood. Mass marketers steal ideas from visionaries, alter them slightly if at all, then reissue them to the public as new products. In the process what was once...
Read morePaul Pope in April GQ
You can now proudly walk into your newsagent’s and demand the new GQ without shame as there are 3 delightful full-colour pages of burlesque goodness by Paul Pope to be found within. And, unlike most of this issue’s content, they are...
Read moreThee Froggss live video – here’s the last 2 songs
Tom Spurgeon reminds us why he is the best commentator on comics we’ve got
Among the witless speculation and fantasy being trolled out on what I imagine might still be called comics fandom concerning what the recent decision regarding ownership of Superman might mean in the long run, one shining beacon of reason drops...
Read moreI just work here – Artist studios captured on film
I’ve just started uploading and making notes on pictures I’ve taken of artist studios. The first batch, taken for Kitchen Sink Press’ Michael Kaluta Sketchbook, is up on flickr now.
Read moreGuiltcology – the Wow Cool Word of the Day
Guiltcology. A cute little portmanteau neologism that stabs right at the heart of the green zeitgeist. Long overdue, I think. Has that same beautiful illogical quality as Irangate and chocoholic. Coined this day by Marc Arsenault. Guiltcology can...
Read moreGeorge W. Bush admits to being “Furry-Curious”
Gary Panter interview at Marvel – Omega, Kirby
Revelations abound and much sample art is to be had in this least likely of all artist interviews at Marvel.com with Gary Panter on his contribution to the 7th issue of Jonathan Letham’s Omega. We get some clues that Gary is releasing some...
Read morePere Ubu at the Pilot Light – Knoxville, TN
It was amazing. Pere Ubu tore it up. I am in fucking awe. They did Sonic Reducer and I completely went fucking mental. It was all a million times better then I deserved to expect. Best damn Easter basket ever. See my choicest shots here.
Read moreHappy Easter
Happy Easter and Equinox from Optiplex the Divine, protector of the universe, eater of gamma rays and organizer of the sublime dark matter.
Read moreStrange Tales of the Unusual
The other day, there was a link in the Random News Round Up section of Tom Spurgeon’s always great The Comics Reporter to an essay in the New Yorker by art spiegelman on revered EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein. I came to a total stop in...
Read moreWafaa Bilal meets RPI and gets a Virtual Jihad of another color entirely
I have this deep conviction that, given the chance, most Americans would take anything that smells like art or an artist and ship it to the giant island of plastic waste in the middle of the Pacific. With that mindset it should come as little...
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