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Graphic Novel Review: The Blog of War

Posted by Jamesr on January 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment

(Review of Dan Goldman and Anthony Lappe, Shooting War, November 2007) One of the most buzzed online web comics of the year finally got a hard copy release this side of the pond last month. It’s called Shooting War, and it’s made waves over at Smithmag.net since May 2006, when uber-Geek (that’s hard ware and binary, not math rock and horn rims) bloggers Boing Boing blew the roof off it with a throw away casual link. It threads terrain... Read More

Filed under Screen/Print · Tagged with graphic novel, Iraq, Literature, Polathicks/Society, review, war

Eye Candy: Hey Apathy!

Posted by Jamesr on December 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Hey Apathy is a comic series by Toronto based street influenced graphic artist Mike Parsons, some of his larger pieces were on display today just off College St. Some of these he’d drawn doing that on street painting-as-busking thing you see going on. Remember those children’s search books Where’s Wally? Well imagine one of the characteristic crowd scenes rendered in black ink, over 12 foot in length and bursting with a frenzied... Read More

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Interviews

The Child of Prague Stares At The Workers.

Interview With Alex Foti: Mayday Had Become A Funeral.

photo credit: cinocino In a special themed issue of Green Pepper, Foti and the Chain Workers Collective sketched a very attractive understanding of the work discipline of contemporary capitalism. In their understanding, society had found itself in a situation of profound disjuncture with our working pasts – life today was defined by contingent employment rather [...]

Don’t Mention Art Rock.

Photo is copyrighted to Lindsay Foley Sometimes a piece of art can represent more than just itself. Through how it intertwines with what’s around it, it can take on new meanings. You might be able to say the same of Estel. One of the photo sliders on their Myspace sails through a montage of gig [...]

More Words On Zines..

photo credit: donkeycart I said I’d do this some time ago, but never got around to it. Well, after the leap you can read the full text of the interviews carried out over email for the piece based around the recent independents day. Simon Reynolds has published the roughs of his own interviews on zines [...]

This is an interview with a band called Adebisi Shank

photo credit: lauranolanphotography Downstairs in Frazers, Adebisi Shank are celebrating the launch of the their debut album, it’s a pure drunken tantrum of a night and from about 10pm the venue looks and feels mentally over-subscribed. It’s all faces rammed in arm pits, and bodies reluctantly pressing against each other. The guy in front of [...]

The Lads From St Saviours.

photo credit: the justified sinner If you’ve ever entered the IFI at peak time, you’ll notice there’s a lot of people just standing around, standing around and waiting, for dates and friends. So, ambling over and interrupting several of the more male looking inpatients waiting with the question “are you one of the lads from [...]