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Magic and Ink: An Interview with Artist Jim Mahfood
Chloe Maveal sits down with artist Jim Mahfood for an interview about his career, cultural influences, and 'Sorcerers'.
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cultureThe Comic Art of Hip-Hop
A selection of hip hop album covers done by comic book artists featuring: Wu-Tang, EPMD, Jay-Z, De La Soul, T.I., Kid Cudi, Public Enemy, Pete Rock...
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culture‘Goodfellas’ at 30: Martin Scorsese’s Anthropological Goodlife Through a Lens
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...
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cultureFront Row Center With Howard Chaykin: Scott Phillips
Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.
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culture‘JFK’: Oliver Stone’s Emotionally Accurate and Masterfully Crafted Trip Down the Rabbit Hole
“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..."
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culture“In Magician’s Mysterious Sleeves”: Rick Veitch and the Censoring of Swamp Thing
It was not the first time an event beyond his control catapulted the Swamp Thing into an odyssey that took him far from his Houma home...
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cultureEddie Little: Paradise Lost
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 ...
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culture“You there! What day is it?”: Why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Ultimate Holiday Film
You can keep your White Christmas and Holiday Inn!
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cultureGang Wars, the Prohibition Menace: Brian De Palma’s ‘The Untouchables’
Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is just heightened melodrama.” Brian De Palma, director..
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culture‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’: Lucas and Spielberg’s Epitome of Action-Adventure Films Still Waiting to Be Surpassed
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 ...
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cultureEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: An Unforgettable and Heartbreaking Exploration of Love, Human Beings and the Nature of Memory
Having heard his friend complain about her boyfriend for what seemed to be a hundredth time,…
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cultureJim Steranko’s Mediascene Magazine
Like a lot of fans, I often lament Steranko's truncated comics career. It's clear he had bigger ambitions than...
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cultureFront Row Center with Howard Chaykin: Dan Panosian
“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...
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cultureFrançois Schuiten Interview
It might have been the insomnia that sparked it all. Legendary Belgian cartoonist and illustrator François Schuiten recalls that he couldn’t sleep when...
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culture‘No Country for Old Men’: The Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy’s Ruthless Examination of Life
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees...
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cultureLife And Death In A Northern Town: Mike Hodges’ ‘Get Carter’
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
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cultureHoward Chaykin – A Life in Comics
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
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cultureColoring Between the Lines: The Incredible Color Work of Lynn Varley
A celebration of the sorely under-appreciated colorist, Lynn Varley.
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cultureClick-In Movies: Revenge (1990)
After having made an erotic horror film starring David Bowie (The Hunger (1983)), a culturally significant box office hit...
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cultureJulian Oliver Meiojas’s ‘Death Notification Agency, Volume Three: The Tombstone’
The DNA series hurtles forward into another hardboiled hellride, inspired by the classic illustrated novels of the golden age of action-adventure SF
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cultureRemembering Frank Thorne
Celebrating the extensive career of comic artist Frank Thorne, who has died at the age of 90.
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cultureAll the Right Hardware: An Appreciation of Denys Cowan
An appreciation of the extensive and incredibly beautiful career of artist Denys Cowan.
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cultureDavid Mamet’s ‘Spartan’: Live by the Code, Film by the Code
A contemporary American renaissance man, David Mamet has had an incredibly rich and fulfilling career spanning...
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cultureWhere Are All The Chanukah Comics?!
Writer and critic Gregory Paul Silber explores the Jewish-American influence on the comics industry and ironic lack of Chanukah comics during the holidays
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cultureStephen Fabian: Story-Telling Artist
Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...
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cultureRemembering Richard Corben
NeoText discusses the impact and legacy of the late Heavy Metal artist and legendary creator Richard Corben
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culture70s Paranoia Thrillers … and why we need them now more than ever
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.
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cultureAdding it Up: A Discussion of Numerology in Culture
From Aleister Crowley to the Gorillaz, writer Avery Kaplan explores the ways that numerology has influenced culture across the centuries.
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cultureGiving ‘Em The Biz: The Seminal Art of Simon Bisley
A boldly satisfying combination of chaotic line work and velvety paints, artist Simon Bisley has been reinventing comic art for decades.
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cultureJean-Pierre Melville: Life And Work Of A Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet
Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet by Sven Mikulec
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cultureThe Megazine That Never Was
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.
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cultureDownwards Is the Only Way Forwards: Welcome to David Fincher’s ‘The Game’
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 ...
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cultureDuct Soup: The Daffy, Dystopian Design Nightmare of Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’
Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—"1984 1/2" was director Terry Gilliam’s originally…
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cultureNoir Cut to Look of the Period, Not About the Period: The Sunny, Seedy ’50’s Underbelly of Curtis Hanson’s ‘L.A. Confidential’
"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...
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fictionDeath Notification Agency, Volume Three: The Tombstone
The third volume in Julian Oliver Meiojas's breathtaking new series about a process server for the DEATH NOTIFICATION AGENCY
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fictionMidnight 99
Ashley Christine's classic hard-boiled whodunit novella, where the victim is a 7-foot-tall Lizard Reptilian Overlord.
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factThe Last Western
Rone Tempest's gripping true crime story of a Puerto Rico-born undercover officer gunned down by a white Wyoming lawman in 1978
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cultureNothing Will Stop Us, Readers!: Celebrating 50 Years of Jack Kirby’s Jimmy Olsen
An explanation behind the delightfully unlikely origins of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Saga
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cultureKing of New York (1990): Abel Ferrara’s Blood-Soaked Portrayal of New York City’s Underbelly
Long-time independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara was never one to pander to the expectations of either critics...
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cultureNothing Stranger Than Truth
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..."
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culture‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’: Peter Yates’ Crime Masterpiece that Chose to Rely on a Completely Different Kind of Spectacle
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 ...
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cultureHandMade Crime
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
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cultureParadise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire
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 ...
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cultureClick-In Movies: The Bodyguard (1992)
Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay for what would later become The Bodyguard...
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cultureLast of the Mo-Ricans – ‘Carlito’s Way’
Brian De Palma’s 1993 crime drama Carlito’s Way, based on the 1975-set novel of the same name and...
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cultureClick-In Movies: Raw Deal (1948)
A prison convict called Joe Sullivan ends up behind bars after taking the fall for a mobster who owes him his freedom, but...
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culture‘Hard Times’: Walter Hill’s Violent Directorial Debut About Survival During the Great Depression
American filmmaker Walter Hill is famous and revered for both his action movies and the fact that he revived the...
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cultureScorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
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culture‘Minority Report’: Steven Spielberg’s Proof that You Don’t Need to Sacrifice Substance to Produce Spectacle
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
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cultureLived All Our Best Times Left With the Worst: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’
Fractured narrative, skewed perception, compressed timelines—director/writer Christopher Nolan won’t lead his audience in a straight line…
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culture‘Sweet Smell of Success’: A Visceral and Vicious Depiction of the Evil that Power-Hungry Men Do
There’s an old rule among directors that you see a film in its totality about four times. The first is when you really decide you love the story and you...
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cultureIn The Shadow Of The Crane
Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane
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culturePsycho Pension Qu’est-ce que c’est: Richard Donner’s ‘Lethal Weapon’ Is a Real Live Wire
You think I’m crazy? You call me crazy, you think I’m crazy? You wanna see crazy?…