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The New York Comics Symposium: Interview with Jon Lewis
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work.
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Albums of Our Lives: Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like a Wheel
The cover was a black and white close-up of a woman, her hair windswept, her name scrawled above her in a font usually reserved for truck stops: Linda Ronstadt. I’d retrieved the album and its torn shell of Columbia Record…
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Babylon Salon in SF
This Saturday don’t miss the Babylon Salon at Cash Bar Exotica! The event features Dean Rader, Ben Loory, Mark Morford, Anita Barrows, and Lindsay Tam Holland. Learn more about the event here. The doors open at 6:30 p.m., reading starts at 7:00.
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Barevolution, Hello Revolution!
If George Orwell survived a shot in the throat by a fascist sniper, surely I could muster the courage to walk past a pro-government storm trooper to offer a polite flower. Viken Berberian writes about the tumultuous political evolution of…
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Literature hits the streets of LA
Save the date! The Rumpus & Dirty Laundry Lit present a fun-filled event for the first-ever Lit-Crawl in Los Angeles. The stellar line-up includes Susan Orlean, Simone Kang, and Johnny Alfie, as well as Rumpus Contributors Jillian Lauren, Natashia Deón, Kima Jones and Zoë Ruiz. The event…
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The Moon’s Jaw by Rauan Klassnik
Carleen Tibbetts reviews Rauan Klassnik’s The Moon’s Jaw today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Joyners: Comic Adaptation
We’re definitely intrigued by The Joyners, a book that will include 3D art. It’s also described as a meeting of The Jetsons and American Beauty! Learn more about The Joyners on The 25 Most Anticipated Comic Books of Fall 2013.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very expensive toilets. As if our own earthquakes weren’t enough to worry about, the bay area should probably be more scared of quakes in Alaska. 16th Century comets. Gravity(‘s constant measurement) is heavier than we thought. And now let us…
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The Rumpus Interview with Eli Brown
Novelist Eli Brown talks about his creative process, the relationship between writing and visual art, how to correctly define a “pirate,” and his past days as a legitimate martial arts expert.
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Got a Question? Ask a Slave
Azie Dungey started her acting career as “the time-traveling black girl”: she played “every black woman of note that ever lived” in regional theaters and at historic sites around Washington, DC. One of those roles—as a slave at George Washington’s…
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Ed Hardy: Way Cooler than You Knew
Did you know Ed Hardy is not just a brand name, but an actual person? And that after becoming “the first Westerner to work with a traditional Japanese master” of tattoo art, he led the “current tattoo renaissance” with an…
