Art
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Get Your “SUGAR SAYS” Poster!
“SUGAR SAYS” Posters are on sale! Printed on high quality matte paper, this beautiful infographically-inspired poster features quotes from Sugar, everybody’s favorite advice columnist. It’s an aesthetically-pleasing way to appreciate the sweet weekly wisdom! CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!
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Spiderman Gets a Socially-Conscious Makeover
Marvel Comics recently announced their latest secret identity—underneath the spider suit is Miles Morales, whose black and Hispanic makeup mark a significant change in the ethnically homogeneity of mainstream superhero comics. Though killing off Peter Parker, the Spiderman before Morales,…
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Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusement Coming Soon
A brand new festival called Brilliant Corners of Popular Amusement is making its way to Chicago this September, with the aim of reinventing Vaudeville in a contemporary context with some hybrid musical/carnivalesque acts. If it seems like this is a…
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Go Wendy!
“When I sit down to work, I keep a small bowl of garlic croutons on my desk. These are little rewards for good ideas and strong lines, Pavlovian pellets to keep my spirits up. Recently, I began to wonder what…
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Horn! Review
HORN! REVIEWS: Once Upon a River Kevin Thomas reviews the June Rumpus Book Club selection, Once Upon a River, Rumpus-Comics style.
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Bradbury’s Form Flexibility
There are two Ray Bradbury classics (Something Wicked Comes This Way and The Martian Chronicles) that have been recently adapted into graphic novels and Bradbury is down. The graphic novel illustrations lend themselves well to Bradbury’s prose, and he even…
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A Internet-Based Literary Performance Piece
Do you know about the Precession? Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffrey’s project is pioneering new digital landscape, making the act of writing into a visually-stimulating performance piece, combined with the personal act of reading work on the Internet. It is…
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All Over Coffee
All Over Coffee #544 Bowery & East 1st Another gorgeous Rumpus Comic from Paul Madonna.
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The Rumpus Interview with Onur Tukel
Midway through June, I was sent a screener of Septien and asked if a piece on the film could find a home in ESPN the Magazine. Septien is an uneasy watch by design, and unfurls its tone out of the…
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Drones Revealed
The art exhibition “Gaming in Waziristan,” in progress at London’s Beaconsfield Gallery, includes previously unseen photographs of post-drone strike moments in North Waziristan, along with 3D animation and moving images. The project seeks to interrogate structures of power, the war…