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Archives for 08/22/2014 7:15 pm

Milo Manara speaks (in English) and reaches out to the farms of Oregon and Maine

08/22/2014 7:15 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Italian fanzine Fumettologica has made an English transcript of their interview with Milo Manara available, and offered it to run at The Beat. And it’s…a thing. Like I’ve been saying all along, Manara is Manara and he can draw all the butts in thew air he wants. However, he trots out every bingo card argument […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Sociology, Top News Tagged With: Interviews, milo manara, Top News

John Porcellino tours for The Hospital Suite

08/22/2014 12:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

John Porcellino tours for The Hospital Suite

One of the eagerly awaited books of fall is The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino, a graphic novel length account of his health issues and battle with OCD, depression and other ills. Despite the heavy subject matter, it’s fascinating reasons with Porcellino’s bare bones storytelling keeping anything from becoming maudlin or self pitying. Porcellino will […]

Filed Under: D&Q, Events, Top News Tagged With: Events, John Porcellino, Top News

What Nerve! open at RISD with awesome catalog

08/22/2014 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

What Nerve! open at RISD with awesome catalog

RISD (The Rhode Island School of Art and Design) is hosting an art show—now open and running until January 9, 2015—“What Nerve!” and it spotlights alternative artists, several of them with one foot in cartooning: What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and […]

Filed Under: Art, Events, Top News Tagged With: Art, Dan Nadel, destroy all monsters, Events, forcefield, funk, hairy who, risd, Top News

Dos and Don’t for the Simpson’s Marathon

08/22/2014 10:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Dos and Don’t for the Simpson’s Marathon

Fxx is showing EVERY EPISODE OF THE SIMPSONS ever in order, a 12-day marathon that started yesterday. The event is to celebrate theFxx getting the rebroadcast rights to every Simpsons episode, for about $1 billion. Meaning Fxx will basically be the Simpsons channell…and that’s a great idea! We caught some Season Three classics last night, […]

Filed Under: Cartoons, Television, Top News Tagged With: Cartoons, Simpsons marathon, Television, Top News

Marvel’s Brevoort responds to Manara controversy

08/22/2014 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Marvel’s Brevoort responds to Manara controversy

I said I was going to be happy and puppies today, but I feel I should note that Marvel’s executive editor Tom Brevoort responded to the whole Milo Manara thing on his formspring: Q: Mr. Brevoort, what is your opinion on the debate over M. Manara’s variant cover of Spider Woman? A similar quarrel happened […]

Filed Under: Art, Marvel, Top News Tagged With: Art, Marvel, milo manara, Tom Brevoort, Top News

Nice Art: Tony Millionare gets autobiographical

08/22/2014 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Nice Art: Tony Millionare gets autobiographical

It has been far too long since we linked to some art by the great Tony Millionaire, whose baroque penwork evokes pleasant feelings of timelessness. Maakies, his epic ongoing strip, is available online and in this episode, it’s what he claims is a true story. CLAIMS. On the other hand, Millionaire lives a baroque life and anything is possible.

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: Tony Millionaire, Top News

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: 8/22/14: Can’t we talk about something more pleasant

08/22/2014 8:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: 8/22/14: Can’t we talk about something more pleasant

§ Jules Feiffer’s astounding graphic novel Kill My Mother is coming out soon, and the press tour is rolling out — here’s an interview in the LA Times “Never having known how to work in this style, suddenly in my 80s, I discover I can,” he says by phone from his home on Long Island, […]

Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits, Top News Tagged With: Top News

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