by Joe DeMartino Collection: US WWII Cartoons What's on Network Awesome today? Beyond a few broad, core truths (the Nazis are Evil, the Axis are a Threat), propaganda is by its very nature filled with falsehoods, exaggerations, and lies. It reveals far more about the country that created it than its actual target. In the following cartoons, which cast the most popular animated characters of the time into situations both [...]
"That's probably the hardest I've worked on any project," says Avi Spivak , the illustrator behind Norton Records ' recent issue of Kicksville Confidential . And if you've seen Kicksville , released this past October, you'll understand what he means by "hard work" -- the Brooklyn-based artist's painstaking renderings of Norton stars are as detailed as they are funny, and they're clearly the toil of someone with a deep interest in u-ground comics and gutsy r'n'r alike. In Spivak's enthusiastic scrawl -- part Kaz, part MAD , part G. Panter, part [...]
Last week the web was wriggling with outrage over The Disney Store Corporation offering for sale a Mickey Mouse™ T-shirt in the graphic style of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover -- not that the iconic white-on-black waveform image (plucked from the Cambidge Encyclopedia of Astronomy by drummer Stephen Morris) was any stranger to absurd marketing schemes . Punters pointed out the irony in Disney (prehaps innocently) associating their Family Friendly™ brand with Joy Division, whose lead singer hung [...]
On Surface Noise, Joe McGasko presented a show decked with soul. Listen to this New Birth. song. After annoucing, he continued with late 1970's Isaac Hayes. Compare the lush instrumentation to modern, mechanzed grooves: Small Change returned to WFMU this month for several editions of Nickel And Dime Radio. Hear "Bach Goes Balie Funk" by Ophex, followed by two N-ron tracks. Joe Belock on Three Card Monte played 1966's "Show Me The Way" by Great Scots, then "The Answer Was You" by Sloan. Both have a straight-foward rock vibe, but notice the [...]
Trubble Club is an informal group of Chicago comic artists that meet every week to produce collaborative comics. Inkers such as Edie Fake , Jeremy Tinder and Grant Reynolds delight in farting out the most absurd panels full of gross-out humor and ridiculous surrealism.
The content presented herein will most likely offend someone's sensibilities, in some capacity or another, and there are profanities as well as haphazard juggling of taboo subjects in an insensitive fashion involved, and the reader should consider herself WARNED about them! If every generation is doomed to fear for the following one, Trenton Willey may be one of our foremost warning signals. Some of his shenanigans might be unsettling, but they do at times bring to mind how we are in a time where the swastika is almost as innocuous as the fanny pack. We are drowned in the [...]
by Jake Goldman Watch more on Network Awesome It is, perhaps, a strange and unsavory thing to say but, alas, the truth must make itself known: Beavis and Butthead had a profound impact on me as a kid. I remember sitting on my basement couch in an uncommon state of awe and laughter; I felt high, though I’d never so much as known the smell of weed at that point (I do now, thanks). All [...]
Recently I went to The Netherlands for the Roadburn Festival . Thanks to Duane Harriot for running the Fun Machine for a week and not wrecking the gears! Last weeks episode was a full three hours of music and photos from the most enjoyable fest I have ever been to, and if you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend it (not because it's my program, mind you - it is my taste, but it was really programmed by those who put Roadburn together- thank them, not me)! [...]
by Joe DeMartino Beyond a few broad, core truths (the Nazis are Evil, the Axis are a Threat), propaganda is by its very nature filled with falsehoods, exaggerations, and lies. It reveals far more about the country that created it than its actual target. In the following cartoons, which cast the most popular animated characters of the time into situations both comic and nightmarish, the concerns of World War II America are laid bare: it's scared, defiant, and strangely obsessed. [...]
I was going to do a little review of Kitten With a Whip (1964), which I saw John Waters introduce last week at Anthology Film Archives for their 40th anniversary, but seeing as not only L Magazine but also Interview and Slant have done detailed writeups (two with interviews, one with on-site reportage), there's not a whole lot left to say--particularly as Waters repeats almost all his talking points from one writer to the next. I had no idea it would be so popular, but [...]
Here's a fun stocking stuffer. I recently bought Super Cat's great early LP, Si Boops Deh! (Techniques, 1986--not to be confused with the lesser Boops! ), which features a wonderful cartoon rendition of Cat passing out money to all of his gal friends on the back cover ("boops" being Jamaican slang for "sugar daddy"). The artwork was signed "Limonious", and when I Googled the name I found The Wilfred Limonious Archive , which is a wonderful collection of the 100+ album covers designed by Limonious that so mark the style of '80s dancehall records. On the [...]
Jay's out of town this weekend and is expecting me to post something about Putin, but I thought I'd feature the Thunk Tank Reenactors doing the opening of the 10/12/10 show instead.
The other night, myself and a few friends; artist Hakumei Kusanagi (artwork here) , Mad Man John, and the Geisha of Gore (read her column on the Cinema Knife Fight site ), went to the Japan Society event thinking we were only going to see Mutant Girls Squad as part of the NY Asian Film Fest . I was unaware that two of the movies' three directors were to be in attendance, and the Geisha of Gore greeted me at the [...]
The official 2012 Olympic mascots have finally been let out of their cages. Yesterday a bunch of London students became the first children to be 'touched' by these oversized perverted teletubbies with scary names: Wenlock , and Mandeville . Olympic mascots by their nature invite criticism, detractors often use the silly characters to make serious statements about the host country. China went through hell with it's 2008 mascots, the characters were appropriated by many foreign and domestic protest [...]
When Dan Clowes went to Hollywood and started making movies with Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi I wondered if he would ever do another serious graphic novel again. Its been a decade since David Boring came out in book form! But this week Drawn and Quarterly release the full length graphic novel Wilson . It was worth the wait. (click on images for larger size) Wilson is an odd bird. He tries to befriend [...]
From StSandersMisc via Andee Connors.
I have no idea...mental breakdown dirty dancing to self-produced jams that sound like a cross between The Pod -era Ween and Right Said Fred. Watch all of Tonetta777's videos on his youtube page . Not necessarily NSFW, but it might creep some people out.
Department of Less-Than-Hilarious Comedy Albums / Today's offering: The Okra Eaters . A scandalous, shocking, nasty damned dish. They really need little introduction, just pour a libation, settle down and get ready to laugh until some okra comes up. This is the complete 1974 adults-only lp, with ripping incidental music by the Johnny Otis Show, and another lovely (?) Laff Records cover designed by Howard Goldstein with Bud Fraker photography. Oh, and I fixed the tracklist- the original lp had the cuts listed wrong on the cover and the label . [...]
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