The Spotlight on Moving Pictures
John Siuntres does great podcasts. For an example, check out his recording of the San Diego Comic Con’s Spotlight Panel on Kathryn and Stuart Immonen, the married graphic novelists behind…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/16 – 8/22
This week in New York Summer is Short, John Brandon makes a Citrus pit stop, Gary Shteyngart is Super Sad, MGMT is inspired by sex balls, Scott Pilgrim takes over…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/16-8/22
This week: m.g. martin’s book launch at Space Gallery, explore some linear and visceral expressions of time, Jennifer Jajah Hearts Hamas, and celebrate the birth of another Mission art gallery…
John Waters’ Secret to Reading a Lot
“Yes, I always read a lot. I read the same amount, no matter what season it is. I read every night. When I’m on book tour, I’m on airplanes all…
Herbert on Leonardo
“The peculiarity of Leonardo’s disquiet is that it does not manifest itself in violent gestures. It is disquiet that respects the line, disquiet controlled and therefore doubly disquieting. How great…
“Untitled”
SMITH Mag’s Pekar Project has posted a comic created by Harvey Pekar before his death.
Autochromes
They look colorized but these images from the Albert Kahn collection are autochromes — the earliest true color photos — and besides being nifty and nostalgic, they seem to live…
Snark, Strangeness and Charm
Mahendra Singh is an illustrator from Montreal “busily fitting Lewis Carroll into a protosurrealist straitjacket with matching dada cufflinks” on The Hunting of the Snark. In March he won the…
Dostoevsky Takes the Train
“The Dostoevskaya station — which opened this summer in memory of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky — met a fair share of opposition when psychologists expressed concern that dark murals of…