Citizen Conn fictionalizes Marvel Comics frenemies Lee and Kirby
A new Michael Chabon short story looks at a lost friendship between two pioneering comics creators.Continue readingCitizen Conn fictionalizes Marvel…
Novel about novels is side-splittingly hilarious
"It was hurting my face to look interested." One of many great lines from this funny, funny book.Continue readingNovel about…
Scorsese’s feel-good Christmas movie lacks a good story
A kid hangs out in a Parisian railway station.Continue readingScorsese’s feel-good Christmas movie lacks a good story
Please, make it stop
Enough is enough!Continue readingPlease, make it stop
Living her life helps July solve screenplay problems
Interview—Miranda July on her new movie The Future The Future is Miranda July's follow-up to her 2005 hit Me and…
A Chevy Marigold of a record
Boston Spaceships' Let It Beard stands up with some of Robert Pollard's best... of the year.Continue readingA Chevy Marigold of…
Ticket Masters suffers from Stockholm Syndrome
Ever wonder who's responsible for high ticket prices?Continue readingTicket Masters suffers from Stockholm Syndrome
Crashing the Game of Thrones party at San Diego Comic-Con
Emilia Clarke and George R.R. Martin are just... sitting there.Continue readingCrashing the Game of Thrones party at San Diego Comic-Con
Grant Morrison, Deepak Chopra, and Kevin Smith at the 2011 San Diego ComicCon
2011 San Diego Comic-Con Day Two recap Morrison, Chopra and Jack Kirby's Motherbox You know you've had an interesting day…
Werner Herzog and Sybil Danning sightings, Jerry Robinson and Jaime Herandez signings
San Diego Comic-Con 2011 recap—European directors, B-movie actresses, and comic book artists It’s a familiar complaint at the San Diego…
Playboy cartoonist, barbarian slave-girls and Avengers swag
Preview night at the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con The biggest news I came across at Preview Night, the kick-off event…
San Diego Comic-Con – a first-timer’s impressions
A first-timer's first impressions of the biggest comics convention of them all.Continue readingSan Diego Comic-Con – a first-timer’s impressions
The (unmade) Robert Smigel Green Lantern script
An unmade Green Lantern script by Robert Smigel is genuinely funny.Continue readingThe (unmade) Robert Smigel Green Lantern script
EAT! Vancouver 2011
An afternoon eating and drinking at a food trade show.Continue readingEAT! Vancouver 2011
Moving forward with crime fiction in The Pack
Very strong stalker-thriller. Don't be fooled by the cover.Continue readingMoving forward with crime fiction in The Pack
Portland, Memorial Day Weekend 2011
Eating and drinking our way through Portland, Oregon.Continue readingPortland, Memorial Day Weekend 2011
Daily life, ‘the most poignant kind of history’
Jennifer Egan on A Visit from the Goon Squad I met Jennifer Egan a year or two before this interview,…
Thirty years later, Ragtime still charms
The 1981 movie is still a delight 30 years later.Continue readingThirty years later, Ragtime still charms
The best of times? Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge
Interview—Mark Yarm, author of Everybody Loves Our Town Mark Yarm's new book Everybody Loves Our Town follows the rise and fall…
Down Under pours and sculptural art
Lots to choose from at the Australia Regional Round-Up.Continue readingDown Under pours and sculptural art