A friend of mine, an American painter living in London, had read the book and suggested that I look at it. I read it and thought ‘If I’m going to make a...
Haunting and evocative, Adam Roberts and François Schuiten present a sci-fi novella where humanity is in the grip of a mysterious compulsion.
It might have been the insomnia that sparked it all. Legendary Belgian cartoonist and illustrator François Schuiten recalls that he couldn’t sleep when...
Only the amazing reaction that that picture has gotten, because at the time I was dreadfully unhappy with the fact that I was going to be doing another ...
Multiple award-winning science fiction author and genre scholar Adam Roberts breaks down his ultimate definition of "Science Fiction."
Introducing The Stacks Reader Series and Alex Belth. "I first met Alex Belth almost a decade ago. There was no way I couldn’t like him instantly..."
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
“Your old stuff was better.” The first time a cartoonist hears this—and be rest assured, all of us will hear or have heard this calumny—that cartoonist...
The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.
A look into the history behind lesbian and bisexual themes in mid-century pulp fiction paperbacks.
Despite a reputation of emotionally intense titles, Watchmen creator Alan Moore's career is far funnier than audiences give him credit for
Writer and critic Gregory Paul Silber explores the Jewish-American influence on the comics industry and ironic lack of Chanukah comics during the holidays
John Schlesinger’s 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy is one of those films that linger around our minds, that we get a sentimental…
Writer and comic creator Adam Knave discusses the evolution and importance of familial bonds in the Bill and Ted movie franchise.
December 5th, 2020 will mark the 40th anniversary of a lavish space opera hitting US theaters and subsequently...
Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
Confidently riding the waves generated by his highly successful satirical black comedy M*A*S*H, Robert Altman easily secured a directing job…
Howard Chaykin pries into the secrets behind the legendary art of Neal Adams
Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was well received by critics and the public, featuring a story ...
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."
Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...
Robert Graysmith knew he was a guy on the sidelines of this story. He wanted to be a part of it and he made himself a part of it. He was doing it on his...
The history of comics pivots on the career of Neal Adams. He ushered an era of naturalism illustration to comic books. It had...
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect ...
"I came to it because of Ellroy. When I read ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I just got hooked on the characters, got caught up emotionally in their individual...
“I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go there. It’s my nature. It’s my father’s nature, too..."
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
An essay celebration of renowned sci-fi artist Richard Powers and the surrealist wonder of the fFlar universe.
Meanwhile, the mystique of ‘Apocalypse Now’ lives on. The Marine Corps invited me to Camp Pendleton to watch a demonstration of an aerial ...
Filmmaker Carol Reed, hailed as one of the greatest U.K. directors, became famous in the late 1930s and 1940s with motion pictures such as Night Train ...
What words would YOU use to describe art that is indescribable? It’s a challenge! In my biography of Paul Lehr (2009) I wrote that he was among the...
The late American director John Frankenheimer began his career when the Cold War was at its peak...
A contemporary American renaissance man, David Mamet has had an incredibly rich and fulfilling career spanning...
From Aleister Crowley to the Gorillaz, writer Avery Kaplan explores the ways that numerology has influenced culture across the centuries.
Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is just heightened melodrama.” Brian De Palma, director..
A look into the subversive use of superhero imagery that infiltrates Jean-Michel Basquiat's art.
American director and screenwriter Brian de Palma, a leading member of the New Hollywood movement that lasted...
Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I always said, ‘This isn’t satire, it’s sheer reportage.’
Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of 1977, George Lucas was resting on a Hawaiian beach, building sand castles with ...
What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976, a film promoted as outrageous, hasn’t lost its...
A retrospective interview with award-winning science fiction author David Gerrold
April 13: The 40th Anniversary of the Disgrace that Shook Journalism Worldwide
In 1978, American filmmaker John Milius, whose screenwriting work on Apocalypse Now would go on to earn him an Oscar...
February, 1965: a snowy day in the Quantock Hills of Somerset. 32-year-old John Boorman was hard at work on his debut feature, 'Catch Us If You Can'...
George V. Higgins’s 1974 crime novel 'Cogan’s Trade' is the 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' of 70s Boston crime novels, structured essentially as a series of...
With 2020 coming to a close, it's time to take a look back on this year and pay homage to the incredible creators we've lost along the way.
The night of November 2nd, 1998. The El Cadiz Apartments, Los Angeles. Thief-turned-writer Eddie Little is worried sick; he’s convinced he can hear a ...
Sven Mikulec looks at the history and legacy of Alan Parker's 'Angel Heart'
"You could say Mike Sager stumbled into journalism as a way to save his ass."—Alex Belth introduces the bestselling author and award-winning journalist.
He paints with people, Jake Gyllenhaal said of David Fincher after the two had worked together on Zodiac. “It’s tough…
Carol Reed’s 'The Third Man' might just be as visually stimulating as classic films get….
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
As far back as I can remember, director Martin Scorsese has been synonymous with wiseguys, mooks, goombahs, and spin-on-a-dime funny-how guys delivering...
Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—"1984 1/2" was director Terry Gilliam’s originally…
Before Warner Bros. decided to take a chance and hire him to make The Wild Bunch, the classic revisionist western that would completely revitalize his ...
Film writer and critic Matt Belenky discusses Christopher McQuirre's neo-western action film 'The Way of the Gun'
From the director of They Live by Night, Rebel Without a Cause and The Savage Innocents, Nicholas Ray, On...
This past year, as everything from Broadway theaters to suburban cineplexes closed for the pandemic, streaming TV became storytelling’s biggest stage...
Bridging the narrow divide between pop music, punk attitude, and art, artist Jamie Hewlett is a force to be recognized.
Filmmaker Michael Cimino garnered both fame and acclaim thanks to his 1978 Academy Award-winning war movie The...
NeoText takes the time to appreciate cartoonist and activist Jackie Ormes, creator and artist behind "Torchy Brown" and "Patty-Jo and Ginger"
A must-see 1970s Mafia classic released in the wake of Mean Streets and an undeniable precursor to Tarantino
On its 25th anniversary, NeoText offers an discussion of British pop music of the 1990s and the soundtrack curation of the 1996 film 'Trainspotting'
In 1993, filmmaker Renny Harlin and movie star Geena Davis were married. The union lasted less than five years, but it was pretty productive from an ...
A glimpse into the story behind history's dirtiest comic books
In 1978, an actor named Harrison Ford was getting his first real taste of movie stardom. He had just portrayed intergalactic smuggler Han Solo in George...
While he was teaching screenwriting at the UCLA Film School, American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader got a character idea during one of his...
An appreciation of the extensive and incredibly beautiful career of artist Denys Cowan.
Long-time independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara was never one to pander to the expectations of either critics...
These covers by Bill Sienkiewicz are a good chronology of his artistic development through the 80s and 90s...
American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist family in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
The story of filmmaker Phil Joanou’s breakthrough in the movie business is basically a pitch-perfect...
English director, screenwriter and composer Mike Figgis made his directorial debut in 1988 with Stormy...
At the beginning of the seventies, American filmmaker William Friedkin made two everlasting...
Many a movie has been based on prolific writer Stephen King's works of fiction. And while quite a few of...
From 'The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl' to 'Dracula, MotherF**ker!', comic artist Erica Henderson is certainly a force to be celebrated.
Having experienced his screenwriting debut with Hickey & Boggs in 1972, Walter Hill went on to pen several...
You can keep your White Christmas and Holiday Inn!
In 1985, famed screenwriter and novelist William Goldman released his novel 'Heat', introducing the world to Nick Escalante, Nevada’s only freelance...
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees...
A Bill Sienkiewicz portfolio: The Shadow, introduced by Benjamin Marra. "I'm not sure what the exact sequencing of these images is, or what order...
When it comes to the best "Walking Dead" title, there's no doubt that Lester Fenton and the Walking Dead by Kyle Baker takes the cake!
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
With Halloween just around the corner, NeoText explores the versatility, humor, and perfectly grotesque visuals of British horror comics.
TELEPOD 1: STATHIS He watches Her, trembling and nerve-twitched, eyes darting, lips pulled back over protruding…
Writer and film critic Sean Witzke introduces readers to the glamorously unsettling world of the fashion horror genre.
People often exaggerate when they talk about films. They get carried away, leaving the cinema emotionally stirred and too impressed to ...
After the success of *The Exorcist,* director William Friedkin teamed up with *The Wild Bunch* screenwriter Walon Green for the groundbreaking *Sorcerer*
With today marking 30 amazing years of the Judge Dredd Megazine, it's time to look back and appreciate the never-were publications that made that possible.
An Historic Intersection of Pro Art and Fandom in a famed Five-piece Portfolio by Jack Gaughan.
Twenty-one years on, David Fincher’s The Game (1997) has come to be seen as a prescient, schadenfreude look at the gulf between us and the “one ...
Forty-five years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis and second-hand knowledge, from satire to theological debate,…
Workprints, rough versions of films before the editing process kicks in and trims out all…
In 1972 a neophyte Spanish media company created a rare platform for artists to explore classic genre imagery with a sophisticated cinematic sensibility.
A new take on a much maligned Black historical figure, Mike Sager presents the inside story of Washington Post Pulitzer fabulist Janet Cooke
When you’re a teenager, there’s nothing like discovering a new writer or a new movie director – new to you, that is.
Here’s an elevator pitch. You’re you, right? You are who you are, doing the stuff you do. But let’s say there’s another you out there, an exact double...
It was never going to last that long. Golden ages rarely do. But for a while there in the 1970s that’s what we had.
Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane