All Things To All People
Wry Ann Duchane first came to Internet Comic Prominence with the strip Hound’s Home, a long-running strip about George Glass, his two cats he taught to talk, and a talking, hyper-intelligent monkey. The strip went from being about the trials and tribulations…
Lenny Bruce via last.fm [Purchase Book] As you’ve probably already guessed, I’m much of a First Amendment/Free Speech absolutist. It’s part of the handful of things that’s a political deal-breaker for me — in fact, it’s why I was initially distrustful of…
Cover of The Wordy Shipmates [Purchase Book] Sarah Vowell’s new book, The Wordy Shipmates is about the Puritans coming over from England in the 1620s. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s really interesting and gives the Puritans much more depth than…
Cover of Richard Feynman [Purchase Book] Richard Feynman has become somewhat of a folk hero for geeks; a scientist who knew so much about so much as well as being an amazing teacher, and a person who just had so many interests….
[Purchase Comic] I’ve been a huge fan of Michael Kupperman‘s work when he was known as P. Revess, running “Up All Night” in The Stranger (among other weeklies, of course). His woodcut-and-clipart inspired artwork combined with his absurdist sense of humor is…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase Book] Art Spiegelman is (rightly) known as one of the founders of modern comics. Maus is often given the credit for making the graphic novel a viable and respectable art form, and his anthology series of the 1980s…
Image via Wikipedia Kurt Kuersteiner is the proprietor of the Jack T. Chick Museum Of Fine Art and the VP of the Chick Tract Club. He’s written The Art Of Jack T. Chick on Chick tracts, and directed the new documentary God’s…
Chelsea Spear, of Two On The Aisle Films, has a new short film, The Mystery Of The Missing Matron which just premiered at Lumen Eclipse’s first annual LE:60 festival, celebrating the one-minute long film. Matron is a photo roman, a film made…
[Purchase Book)] The 33 1/3 series is a selection of short books, each one about an influential record album. The common comparison is that it’s a Criterion Collection for music; it’s not a bad comparison — the only difference between 33 1/3…