Art
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Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
At RADAR productions, Alice Bag, founder of The Bags and author of Violence Girl, interviews Raquel Gutierrez, aka Raquefella, founder of queer performance group Butchlalis de Panochtitlan. Gutierrez talks about growing up between cultures, butch haircuts, theatrical influences, and upcoming…
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Surveying The Comic Industry
Part two of The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey–featuring “picks, prognostications and previews” from the comics industry–includes our own cartoonist MariNaomi. The participants responded to questions about the biggest stories in comics as well as guilty pleasures anticipated in this new…
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Our Brains On Art
“While Rembrandt was an astonishingly talented artist, our response to his art is conditioned by all sorts of variables that have nothing to do with oil paint. Many of these variables are capable of distorting our perceptions, so that we…
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Graphic Renaissance
“If a comic can serve as the mediating mask of tragedy, that might help explain why graphic novels are proving so successful in depicting not only torture and war but illness, domestic conflict, even teenage trauma—anything hard to face in…
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Happy New Year!
Thanks for another amazing year, Rumpus readers. We love you back (so, so much). See you in 2012! The Rumpus
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Bechdel Interview and New Book Sneak Peek
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel was recently interviewed (by University of Chicago professor and comics scholar Hillary Chute) about her comics making process and forthcoming book Are You My Mother (Houghton Mifflin, May 2012). You can observe Bechdel as she is working on…
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Fire Island Flaneurs
It starts with the watch, always. Boarding the ferry at the Sayville Harbor on Long Island, I remove my watch and zip it within the special pocket of my duffel. Vacation begins the moment we start the short trek over…