Famous Rapes #1: Old Master Paintings
This is the first in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape as seen through different time periods.
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Tao Lin Concludes iPhone Photo Documentary Series of Taipei
Yesterday, alt-lit author and experienced hamster artist Tao Lin published the last installment of a series of iPhone photos he’d taken for Vice during a recent trip to Taipei.
The final selection is entitled “Taipei metro” and includes melancholy, voyeuristic photos of various metro locations throughout Taipei.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jason Polan, Part II
Artist Jason Polan talks about drawing in dreams and on wet windows, black-and-white rainbows, and the largest thing he’s ever made.
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Vegetarian Taxidermy
Sharon’s vegetarian taxidermy is the fabric-and-stuffing version of taxidermy animal trophies.
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Happy Memorial Day!
To start the holiday off right, an illustration from Rumpus illustrator-in-chief Jason Novak:
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The Rumpus Interview with Jason Polan, Part I
An illustrated look at the life and times of Jason Polan, the artist behind Michelle Tea’s newest book, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek.
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A Peek Inside Mermaid in Chelsea Creek
We wade into Michelle Tea’s new novel, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek, with a collection of enticing excerpted illustrations by Jason Polan.
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ALBUM #5, AUDIO PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT WORK: Ariel Schrag
Ariel Schrag first achieved recognition in her teens, when she began writing the autobiographical comic books Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise
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The Rumpus Interview with Claire Rosen
Most compelling about the work of photographer Claire Rosen is how fantasy and the natural world come together.
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Drawing the Connection
Art is an act of finding, making, and forcing meaning; a synthesis of witness and imagination; a course that veers always toward empathy.
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For A.M., 1996-2013
When you’re just a kid, you don’t realize how big the world is outside of you.
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Spotlight: Hiphop Is the Future
Though Matt Dojny has become known primarily as a novelist since the publication of The Festival of Earthly Delights this past June, he’s been making comics since his earliest childhood:
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The Rumpus Interview with Dmitry Samarov
Dmitry’s spontaneous cab drawings had such great composition and confidence. You could almost feel his grimace in so many of his lines.
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ALBUM #2, Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work: Angela Jimenez
Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work
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The Rumpus Interview with Roger Gastman
Graffiti impresario Roger Gastman sits down and talks about the evolution of street art, his new film The Legend of Cool “Disco” Dan, and his newest exhibit and ode to Washington D.C., Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s.
...moreFifty Shades of Abe
A Presidents’ Day surprise courtesy of Rumpus literary pun master Timothy Leo Taranto:
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A Taste of Larceny in My Blood
Two excerpts from Matthew Parker’s graphic memoir, Larceny in My Blood: A Memoir of Heroin, Handcuffs, and Higher Education:
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ALBUM #1, Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work: Stephanie Tamez
Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work
...more(Thumb!) Wrestling Masks and Knuckle Tats
Pen & Ink duo Wendy MacNaughton and Isaac Fitzgerald were commissioned by McSweeney’s to create temp tats for children.
The result: Six (Temporary) Tattoos to Give Yourself At Home. Plus a handy chart for temporary tattoo “guns” rated for usability and permanent-ness.
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Literary Puns, Round II
Happy Birthday, Edith Wharton!
For what would have been her 151st birthday, the author gets our visual pun treatment.
Without further ado, meet Edith Wart-on:
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The fact that tattoos existed in a time before “punk” was a word to describe a movement is a hard notion to grasp.
The New Yorker has compiled a series of photographs of women in the early to mid 20th century baring their tattoos.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
We are observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day today, and will be watching the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
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The Rumpus Interview with Tom Kaczynski
Publisher of Uncivilized Books and comics artist Tom Kaczynski opens up about primal motifs, utopian thinking, and growing up with comic books in Poland.
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The First Three Pages of “Million Year Boom”
The first three pages of “Million Year Boom,” one of the stories featured in Tom Kaczynski’s new collection, Beta Testing the Apocalypse:
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Literary Puns
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.
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