Two fantastic Chicago-based shows showed how cool comics done under duress can turn out, as Jon Westhoff waxes poetic about the awesomeness of Jeffrey Brown's 1-Hour comic and Ryan Browne's 24-hour comic.
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Two fantastic Chicago-based shows showed how cool comics done under duress can turn out, as Jon Westhoff waxes poetic about the awesomeness of Jeffrey Brown's 1-Hour comic and Ryan Browne's 24-hour comic.
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'Subnormality' is one of my favorite webcomics. Winston Rowntree, the pseudonymous creator of Subnormality, chatted with us about his creation.
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Issue Two is being worked on -- but here's an audio track (mp3 file) with the story behind the story. Join writer Jon and artist Bobgar as they lead you through Apocalypse Meh! from start to finish.
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'Kings of Pastry' is a documentary that focuses on several pastry chefs who yearn for and compete for the Meilleur Ouvrier de France in the category of Pastry-making, an elite tradesperson award in France. Despite some clunkiness, on the whole it's a jewel.
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Imagine someone on the highway cuts you off without signaling. Now imagine the non-signaler who cut you off flashes a bright red "SORRY" sign from his back window, like the one seen here. Recipe for aggression?
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Rango, the new animated feature starring Johnny Depp, channels the Spaghetti Western, and is noteworthy for a design sense that's sharper and more distinct than the average animated film.
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“Tales of Good ol’ Snoop Doggy Dogg” by J.T. Yost--from sense of humor to cartooning chops, it's a mini-comic worthy of your time.
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A series of surprises livened up Sunday night's Grammy ceremony—Eminem was kept in the rap award ghetto, Arcade Fire scored an upset, and the Bieber went down. All this, and the night's many performances, recapped, put under the microscope, and dissected for your pleasure.
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With fiction wearing the garb of non-fiction and the growing scrutiny of documentaries as truth, the lines continue to blur between these two supposedly oppositional types of film.
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Eviscerated as it was by critics, one might wonder why anyone would bother seeing M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Last Airbender.' Well, my curiosity, she is a morbid thing. I’ve watched all of Shyamalan’s films with an increasing anticipation of their burgeoning badness.
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Holiday Gift Guide 2009