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  • Rumpus Interviews Since 1/20

    Lisandro Alonso Susannah Breslin Margaret Cho T Cooper Ron English James Frey Jaclyn Friedman Malcolm Gladwell Danny Goldberg Andrew Sean Greer Van Jones General Lawrence Nkunda Jack Pendarvis Princess Superstar Mary Roach Bucky Sinister Steven Soderbergh Tristan Taormino Dean Wareham…

  • Ivan Brunetti

    Ivan Brunetti’s excruciating but brilliant explanation of the state of his art-making (plus the story of what happened between him and the cartoon character Nancy). As far as the grand scheme of comics this is like a little note scribbled…

  • Rumpus Book Reviews Since 1/20

    The Boatloads by Dan Albergotti Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum American America by Ethan Canin The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo A Day and a Night and a Day by Glen Duncan The Farther Shore by Matthew Eck…

  • The New York Comic-Con Experience in Three Parts

    There is nothing like the thrill of heading off to a convention for rabid fanboys, geeks, cosplayers, and those who simply enjoy letting their inner freak flag fly across 10th Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan.

  • The Facebook Status of Sarah Fran Wisby

    Sarah Wisby is now in a relationship with herself. – December 13, 2008 Sarah is proud of her muffin top. – December 9 Sarah is _________. – December 9 Sarah is denouement: it’s all downhill from here. – December 9

  • City Cyclops

    Jon Adams, author of the Truth Serum books, presents City Cyclops, “the only comics in the world that will make you forget about your mom’s new boyfriend.” Perfect. The comics star not-so-superheros and villains, such as Don Sequitur, Orifist, and…

  • Post-Young: Thank You, Dr. Death

    We live in heinous times. Times when it’s nearly impossible to be shocked by the sheer horror to which humans subject each other.

  • Humor, Interrupted

    Here on the Internets, we know narrative digression all too well as the “hyperlink.” Those of us who are accustomed to, and indeed savor, the buds of info that bloom on the page waiting to be plucked may find the…

  • Story Time!

    Sometimes you just want to come home from your haircut, curl up with Judy, and sit in the last sunshine of the day reading a good short story, a story that starts one way and then goes another, tragically, by…

  • If The Real World Was Like Grand Theft Auto It Would Look Like This

    This is a real picture. I encourage clicking to enlarge for full effect. With the little compass and map and everything? The Smoking Gun has discovered that what Google Street View photography has discovered: that we already live in Liberty…

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    At the Intersection of Football and Porn

    By now everybody has heard that last night football fans in Tuscon got thirty free seconds of Jenna Jameson doing what she’s famous for in a mistake that was the answer to every teenage boy’s prayers. So Comcast messed up…

  • Everything Reminds Me of Everything

    About two weeks after I leave Costa Rica, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake will ravage an area about twenty miles outside the capital.