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  • culture

    Magic and Ink: An Interview with Artist Jim Mahfood

    Chloe Maveal

    Chloe Maveal sits down with artist Jim Mahfood for an interview about his career, cultural influences, and 'Sorcerers'.

  • fiction

    Sorcerers

    Maurice Broaddus, Jim Mahfood

    An urban fantasy novella by Maurice Broaddus and Otis Whitaker, illustrated by Jim Mahfood, about a hip hop inspired sorcerer.

  • culture

    The Comic Art of Hip-Hop

    Paco Taylor

    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...

  • culture

    ‘Goodfellas’ at 30: Martin Scorsese’s Anthropological Goodlife Through a Lens

    Tim Pelan

    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...

  • culture

    Front Row Center With Howard Chaykin: Scott Phillips

    Howard Chaykin

    Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.

  • culture

    ‘JFK’: Oliver Stone’s Emotionally Accurate and Masterfully Crafted Trip Down the Rabbit Hole

    Koraljka Suton

    “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..."

  • culture

    Eddie Little: Paradise Lost

    Ray Banks

    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 ...

  • culture

    “You there! What day is it?”: Why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Ultimate Holiday Film

    Chloe Maveal

    You can keep your White Christmas and Holiday Inn!

  • culture

    Gang Wars, the Prohibition Menace: Brian De Palma’s ‘The Untouchables’

    Tim Pelan

    Screenwriter David Mamet came up with a Stanislavski quote to describe The Untouchables: “Tragedy is just heightened melodrama.” Brian De Palma, director..

  • culture

    ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’: Lucas and Spielberg’s Epitome of Action-Adventure Films Still Waiting to Be Surpassed

    Sven Mikulec

    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 ...

  • culture

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: An Unforgettable and Heartbreaking Exploration of Love, Human Beings and the Nature of Memory

    Sven Mikulec

    Having heard his friend complain about her boyfriend for what seemed to be a hundredth time,…

  • culture

    Jim Steranko’s Mediascene Magazine

    Benjamin Marra

    Like a lot of fans, I often lament Steranko's truncated comics career. It's clear he had bigger ambitions than...

  • culture

    François Schuiten Interview

    Michael Tisserand

    It might have been the insomnia that sparked it all. Legendary Belgian cartoonist and illustrator François Schuiten recalls that he couldn’t sleep when...

  • culture

    ‘No Country for Old Men’: The Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy’s Ruthless Examination of Life

    Sven Mikulec

    That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees...

  • culture

    Life And Death In A Northern Town: Mike Hodges’ ‘Get Carter’

    Tim Pelan

    Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'

  • culture

    Howard Chaykin – A Life in Comics

    Michael Tisserand

    A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.

  • culture

    David Mamet’s ‘Spartan’: Live by the Code, Film by the Code

    Sven Mikulec

    A contemporary American renaissance man, David Mamet has had an incredibly rich and fulfilling career spanning...

  • culture

    Where Are All The Chanukah Comics?!

    Gregory Paul Silber

    Writer and critic Gregory Paul Silber explores the Jewish-American influence on the comics industry and ironic lack of Chanukah comics during the holidays

  • culture

    Stephen Fabian: Story-Telling Artist

    Jane Frank

    Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...

  • culture

    Remembering Richard Corben

    Chloe Maveal

    NeoText discusses the impact and legacy of the late Heavy Metal artist and legendary creator Richard Corben

  • culture

    70s Paranoia Thrillers … and why we need them now more than ever

    Alan  Glynn

    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.

  • culture

    Adding it Up: A Discussion of Numerology in Culture

    Avery Kaplan

    From Aleister Crowley to the Gorillaz, writer Avery Kaplan explores the ways that numerology has influenced culture across the centuries.

  • culture

    Giving ‘Em The Biz: The Seminal Art of Simon Bisley

    Chloe Maveal

    A boldly satisfying combination of chaotic line work and velvety paints, artist Simon Bisley has been reinventing comic art for decades.

  • culture

    Jean-Pierre Melville: Life And Work Of A Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet

    Sven Mikulec

    Jean-Pierre Melville: Life and Work of a Groundbreaking Filmmaking Poet by Sven Mikulec

  • culture

    The Megazine That Never Was

    Chloe Maveal

    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.

  • culture

    Downwards Is the Only Way Forwards: Welcome to David Fincher’s ‘The Game’

    Tim Pelan

    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 ...

  • culture

    Duct Soup: The Daffy, Dystopian Design Nightmare of Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’

    Tim Pelan

    Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—"1984 1/2" was director Terry Gilliam’s originally…

  • culture

    Noir Cut to Look of the Period, Not About the Period: The Sunny, Seedy ’50’s Underbelly of Curtis Hanson’s ‘L.A. Confidential’

    Tim Pelan

    "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...

  • fiction

    Midnight 99

    Ashley Christine

    Ashley Christine's classic hard-boiled whodunit novella, where the victim is a 7-foot-tall Lizard Reptilian Overlord.

  • fact

    The Last Western

    Rone Tempest

    Rone Tempest's gripping true crime story of a Puerto Rico-born undercover officer gunned down by a white Wyoming lawman in 1978

  • culture

    Nothing Will Stop Us, Readers!: Celebrating 50 Years of Jack Kirby’s Jimmy Olsen

    Chloe Maveal

    An explanation behind the delightfully unlikely origins of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Saga

  • culture

    ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’: Peter Yates’ Crime Masterpiece that Chose to Rely on a Completely Different Kind of Spectacle

    Sven Mikulec

    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 ...

  • culture

    HandMade Crime

    Ray Banks

    An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.

  • culture

    Paradise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire

    Tim Pelan

    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 ...

  • culture

    ‘Hard Times’: Walter Hill’s Violent Directorial Debut About Survival During the Great Depression

    Koraljka Suton

    American filmmaker Walter Hill is famous and revered for both his action movies and the fact that he revived the...

  • culture

    Scorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’

    Tim Pelan

    Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...

  • culture

    ‘Minority Report’: Steven Spielberg’s Proof that You Don’t Need to Sacrifice Substance to Produce Spectacle

    Sven Mikulec

    The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...

  • culture

    Lived All Our Best Times Left With the Worst: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’

    Tim Pelan

    Fractured narrative, skewed perception, compressed timelines—director/writer Christopher Nolan won’t lead his audience in a straight line…

  • culture

    ‘Sweet Smell of Success’: A Visceral and Vicious Depiction of the Evil that Power-Hungry Men Do

    Koraljka Suton

    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...

  • culture

    In The Shadow Of The Crane

    Karim Hussain csc

    Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane

  • culture

    Psycho Pension Qu’est-ce que c’est: Richard Donner’s ‘Lethal Weapon’ Is a Real Live Wire

    Tim Pelan

    You think I’m crazy? You call me crazy, you think I’m crazy? You wanna see crazy?…

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