Posts Tagged: Kirk Demarais

Sea-Monkeys and X-Ray Spex

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Collectors Weekly interviews artist and historian Kirk Demarais about his book Mail-Order Mysteries, which archives the novelties sold at the back of vintage comic books. Demarias discusses the appeal and disappointment that these bizarre products brought to childhood. “They weren’t just toys. Things like X-Ray Spex and the Charles Atlas Fitness Program could improve my […]

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Film Family Portraits

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“All happy families are more or less dissimilar; all unhappy ones are more or less alike.” So explains Tolstoy in Anna Karenina (as translated by Nabokov in Ada). The multimedia artist Kirk Demarais captures some of these similarities in his portraits of film families. From the Torrences (The Shining), to the Griswolds (National Lampoon’s Vacation), […]

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