Barack Obama’s speech on race. You probably read about it or heard excerpts, but if you haven’t heard it in its entirety, go check it out. Not only is it a rather incredible exercise in damage control, it’s a risky and moving speech.
That hilarious Peter Paul/Stan Lee/Hillary Clinton video. Just to give Hillary her due, this old video resurfaced in the comics blogosphere last week. Complete with a starry-eyed Stan Lee talking to Hillary, back when she was running for Senator of New York state, and the notorious con man Peter Paul filming, it is certainly a must-see. (Never mind the scandal-mongering bullshit at the beginning)
The New Yorker: Art Spiegelman’s great essays on Bernie Krigstein (“Ballbuster”) and Jack Cole (“Forms Stretched to their Limits”). Thanks to Tom Spurgeon.
Gary Gygax links. An interesting essay about recently deceased game desginer Gygax’ influence on virtual communities by Adam Rogers, and a personal reminiscence from Monte Cook, who was at his funeral. Again, thanks to Tom Spurgeon.
Chris Ware on Rodolphe Töpffer. One of our preeminent cartoonists writes about one of the founders of modern comics, in a review of David Kunzle’s recently released books on him.
Raphael’s Portrait of Lorenzo de’Medici
The Metabunker summarizes the problems of attribution surrounding the Raphael portrait sold at Christie’s in 2007
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Interview: El-P & Aesop Rock
Click here to read our 2003 in-depth interview with two of New York’s finest.
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Continuous Creation — Titian’s Nuova Natura
On Titian’s aesthetic of the unfinished and Renaissance notions of the subjective.
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Bleed Runner
On Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Also, read producer Charles de Lauzirika’s comments here.
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Damian Marley & Nas Interviewed
The Distant Relatives interviewed on their 2010 tour
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Fantask
Skriverier om butikken Fantask og dens placering i det danske kulturbillede.
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The Miracle in Milan
Review of the 2011-12 Leonardo show at the National Gallery in London
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Hergé and the Order of Things
Hooded Utilitarian column on Hergé’s vision and the necessity of comics criticism that engages deep form
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Bruegel, Rembrandt, Crumb and Cartooning Extended Hooded Utilitarian piece on R. Crumb’s Genesis and the cartoon tradition.
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New Yorker Cartoons: A Legacy of Mediocrity A deadening force at the heart of the art form, smothering the field in bourgeois mediocrity
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Hogarth’s Chicken Fat
An analysis of Hogarth’s rich imagery as both support and counterpoint to his storytelling
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Bellini in Rome
Thoughts on Giovanni Bellini and the grand Rome retrospective.
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Interview: Muñoz & Sampayo
Read our 2001 conversation with the Argentine comics grand masters and Angoulême Grand prix winner(s) here.
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Cézanne’s Card Players
On Cézanne, time, figure drawing, still lives, and the classics
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Jimmy Corrigan’s Spectacular Reality
Article on Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan
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