Media

Does the mainstream press play a role in the results of high-profile crime trials? In 2011, it seems as though it did.
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Drive, starring the currently ubiquitous Ryan Gosling, is in part an homage to Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) and quite an earnest endeavor: a post-modernist situation lacking most of the tropes and characteristics of the post-modern film.
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"Low Concept: An 11 O'Clock Comics Anthology," was recently published. It weighs in at an impressive near-140 pages... and it took some doing. This comic book was all fan created in the name of a podcast that in turn celebrates comic book fandom, and the straw stirring the drink was O.O.'s very own Jon...
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Summit City Comic Con, year two! Check out "Caaats," "The Troll and Giant," "Curmudgeon--The Art of Dave Wachter," and more!
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Green Lantern is the kind of superhero that could never feasibly have been rendered without digital effects. But should it have been rendered at all? Or is it more worthy than most of the reviews are making it out to be?
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The inevitable sequel to the crass comedy hit 'The Hangover: Part II' brings back Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis, the bachelor party trio from hell. But it’s just not clicking this time around.
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In April, Four Star Studios launched its first 99-cent digital comic, Action Double Feature. Recently, the second issue, Horror DoubleFeature, came to market.
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What gives a story legs? The question of why some mainstream media stories last a week or longer in newspapers and on television, while others fizzle like a dud firework, is one that journalism students and the general public struggle to answer.
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With his victory over Tito Santana, "Macho Man" Randy Savage's star was born in 1986, in the Boston Garden. That star, one of the Top 10 greatest professional wrestlers of all time, burnt out today. At 58, the Macho Man died in a car accident. The death of the Macho Man really hurts.
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One of the benefits of supporting independent publishing is you can't help but feel closer to the creator and the creative process. This is only partially encapsulated by the nice hand-written thank you note I received from François Vigneault with purchase of his new "Elf World" anthology series.
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