Dean Haspiel’s prowess as a cartoonist is well known, but he’s now an emerging playwright as well. His new play, The Last Bar at the End of the World opens tomorrow at Urban Stages in Manhattan – you can buy tickets here. Directed by Phillip Cruise, and starring Cruise, Tarik Davis, Lex Friedman, Seth Gilliam, […]
INTERVIEW: Dean Haspiel and Stoya bring sensuality to death in HARAKIRI KANE
“Whether it’s a porn set or live theater, the ability to take direction is the most useful skill I have as a performer.”
Molly Crabapple’s The Shell Game Exhibit
By Melissa Coci Molly Crabapple’s poster for The Shell Game. via MollyCrabapple.com. When a crowd gathers in New York City on a Friday night to stare inside a window– especially a freezing ‘spring’ night – you know whatever is in that window must be pretty damn special. Such was the case for the opening of […]
REVIEW: ‘Shoot This’, FORCEFIELD FOTOCOMIX, #.01
Photocomix are strange creatures. They look like a hybrid of a photography medium and a comics format, and when you spot them in the wild you’re never sure whether they arose as some part of a natural evolutionary process in art or if they were the result of some kind of misguided experiment, maybe even […]
TRIP CITY at One Year: From Seth Kushner’s Male Uterus
TRIP CITY at one year old is quite a verbal-visual-aural beast containing over 600 items of content including comics, podcasts, essays, stories, poems, and all points in between. Where does a massively productive digital arts salon go from here? This anniversary week, co-founders Chris Miskiewicz and Jeffrey Burandt have talked to us about their digital […]