Early and awesomely creepy science fiction film.

It makes up for what it lacks in special effects (and costumes) in sheer paranoid, expressionistic flourish, and the cinematography boasts a nice, stark use of color(the color equivalent of noir) with deep contrasts, blacks, and very symb
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Very sad. I was never a fan but still, her presence was completely unavoidable when I was much younger. The woman could sing, once upon a time, even if I never liked any song she sang. Rather than attempt any evaluation of her legacy, I will leave it to the experts.

What
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...to raise money to install a sculpture in honor of Harvey Pekar in the Cleveland Heights Public Library, a goal that happily was reached. Among other things he refers to adaptation as "evil"(which I take exception to) and reveals the biggest point of friction between himself and Mochael Moorcock is
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They say the cover-up always makes things worse. And bad puns don't help.

Chapter 3, p. 52. Click and read!



Also: original art for chapters 1 & 2 now for sale at Sketchmaven! Don't forget: chapters 1 and 2 available in THIS SICKNESS 6-7 at Amazon and Createspace. (now for Kindle… Read full post »

Not being complete morons, the Komen Foundation has forced the resignation of Karen Handel, their right-wing zealot VP who managed to destroy their reputation within 48 hours. The damage is considerable--pretty much the nightmare scenario for any nonprofit-- but that's a step in the right direction.

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It's a documentary about the persecution of Wilhelm Reich by the US government. It's an avant-garde satire. It's a time capsule of a way of life, and a country, that no longer exist(though the actors in the Yugo portion of the film are largely Serbian, I was informed when I watched
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Forwarded to me by a friend named Shayla Jones. I honestly can't believe I sat through the whole thing but I did. And it's good.



I have to admit, it shows me just how little attention I paid to superhero comics 1987-2000, because honestly? Okay, we're going to go into fanboy shit
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Information from inside the Komen Foundation shows Karen Handel was indeed behind the decision to defund Planned Parenthood and to attempt to make it look nonpolitical.

"Karen Handel was the prime instigator of this effort, and she herself personally came up with investigation criteria," the source, w… Read full post »

A new drawing featuring Rosa & Annalisa, who I haven't drawn since 2005. I'll be doing more with this later.

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Schwarz demonstrates his courage, gaining Lulu's undying respect.

Chapter 3, p. 51. Click and read!



Also: original art for chapters 1 & 2 now for sale at Sketchmaven! Don't forget: chapters 1 and 2 available in THIS SICKNESS 6-7 at Amazon and Createspace. (now for Kindle as well
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One of the best art documentary series of all time (along with AMERICAN VISIONS) which you can see here courtesy of Ubuweb.
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Holy CRAP.

I was kind of being satirical when I suggested that the Komen Foundation's new pro-life agenda would also entail their stopping funding for embryonic stem cell reaearch, which is right now a vital cancer research field. And which pro-lifers are vociferously against.

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Say, Komen Foundation: how courageous of you to cut poor women off from breast cancer screening by cutting off your connection to Planned Parenthood.

Hey, now that you've got the gushing reptilian love of the pro-lifers, you do realize you're being inconsistent.

See. cancer research relies on stem cell
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Early video art crossed with early ambient music. Here's Thursday Afternoon for you, complete.(sorry, no embed code)

Not so much to be listened to as inhabited.
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This is a story written, and with breakdowns, by John E. Williams and drawn by me, that would have been in PLASTIC 9 in 2001, had there been one. It's the continuation of the adventures of comics' favorite hack, Uncle Cyrus. Here we see him at the San Diego Con, though/…

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When League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1910 came out, I happened to have just started working on my comics adaptation of Frank Wedekind's "Lulu," which had already been brewing in my mind for ten years, and poring over every version of it I can find. I even found the rare 1980 Borowczy
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Unavailable for a long time, here for your reading pleasure is "October Surprise," my first professionally published work, my first comic drawn entirely in pencil, and my first work in the erotic genre is now available online here in its entirety. I kept this one offline--though it did run on adultwe
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A bit of an argument this week between Lulu and the endlessly emo Schwarz.

Chapter 3, p. 50. Click and read!



Also: original art for chapters 1 & 2 now for sale at Sketchmaven! Don't forget: chapters 1 and 2 available in THIS SICKNESS 6-7 at Amazon and Createspace. (now for
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In memory of a reminder that sometimes "pop" and "good music" coincide, some Michael Hutchence and what INXS once was. Pop can be good, it's hard to recall these days. It's just that most of the time they don't try.

Here they are live in Melbourne in 1983.

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And the good doctor is still dead, and Lulu thinks it might be time to get dressed.

Chapter 3, p. 49. Click and read! Also: original art for chapters 1 & 2 now for sale at Sketchmaven!



Don't forget: chapters 1 and 2 available in THIS SICKNESS 6-7 at Amazon and Createspace!
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Watch the interview with Marianne Gingrich here.

He left his first wife when she was dying of cancer. Know why he decided to leave wife #2? Because she had MS. And he called her and said he "loved" her while being blown by the CallistaDroid. Who,… Read full post »

"OH NOES, SNOW! WHATEVER SHALL WE DO?" -Seattle, every goddamn winter

Only Seattle would react to a snowstorm like it was Katrina.

The LA Times called Seattleites "wimps" for the reaction to its (by Chicago standards rather laughable) snowstorm. Said reaction is basically, even after the 2009 storm, to… Read full post »

I have been studying copyright law on my own since I was in HS. And it just hit me: Under post-1978 copyright law, anything you create is copyrighted by law whether you register it or not as soon as it is in final "fixed form." So if someone uploaded something to… Read full post »

...which personally affects me as you can see just above, as I'm adapting Frank Wedekind's LULU, which is over 100 years old and in public domain.(not my version, but the two original plays)

Read more here and wonder: what the living fuck. Obviously this is only of benefit to corporations. And I
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...you gotta write your members of Congress too and let them know--politely--that there will be consequences if they let this heinous bill pass.

If you somehow don't know what SOPA is, click here.

And here is what it could do to comics.

Also, little indie cartoonist guys like me would never have had the
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