Book Review: Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades by David Steinberg
By Greg Hammond |
David Steinberg is a man of many talents. He performed improv at Second City before becoming a stand-up comedian known ...
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Book Review: Out of My Head: The Imaginary Creatures of Josep Baqué by Brian Chidester
By David Wangberg |
Josep Baqué was an artist with whom very few are familiar. His artwork went mostly unknown, as he never shared ...
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Book Review: Salome’s Last Dance by Daria Tessler
By Mat Brewster |
Portland artist Daria Tessler's second comic book published by Fantagraphics is a short, strange trip that finds influences from such ...
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Book Review: Sydney Pollack: A Subliminal Existentialist by Wes D. Gehring
By Davy |
Director/producer/actor Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) was one of the unsung heroes of cinematic and popular culture. His films ranged from Depression-era ...
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Book Review: Daughters of Snow and Cinders by Núria Tamarit
By Steve Geise |
When a determined young adventurer sets out into the wilderness in search of gold, she quickly encounters threats from the ...
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Book Review: Jessica Lange: An Adventurer’s Heart by Anthony Uzarowski
By Davy |
Being a film lover, I have read a few actor/actress biographies in my time, but I've rarely come across one ...
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Book Review: Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir
By Davy |
I am not a drinker whatsoever, but I do love film noir. So, Noir Bar, the delightful new photo-book by ...
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Book Review: The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca
By Greg Hammond |
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Bram Stoker Award Finalist Eric LaRocca is a collection of “literary dark ...
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Book Review: Night Terror by John Kenn Mortensen
By Mat Brewster |
On more than one occasion I've had a dream where I woke up, got up from bed, and went to ...
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Book Review: Fools Die on Friday by Erle Stanley Gardner
By Kent Conrad |
Donald Lam knows the girl's a phony. He knows from the second he sees the monogram on her cigarette case ...
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Book Review: The Heavy Bright by Cathy Malkasian
By Steve Geise |
A young girl is tasked with a seemingly impossible quest: to hunt down and destroy 999 black eggs closely held ...
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Book Review: Ephemera: A Memoir by Briana Loewinsohn
By Steve Geise |
Briana Loewinsohn’s debut graphic novel heralds the arrival of an intriguing new talent already operating at a masterful level. Her ...
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Book Review: Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Eddie Muller, founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and host of TCM's Noir Alley, once again serves ...
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Book Review: T*ts & Cl*ts 1972-1987: An Underground, Women-made Comix Gets the Fantagraphics Touch
By Jack Cormack |
Out this month, Tits & Clits 1972-1987 (Fantagraphics Books) compiles for the first time (in a single, handsome volume) all ...
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Book Review: Mickey and Donald: For Whom the Doorbell Tolls
By Steve Geise |
In 1999, a teacher at Disney’s Italian school for cartoonists presented his students with a prompt: select a short story ...
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Book Review: Evita: The Life and Work of Eva Perón by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Alberto and Enrique Breccia
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics continues their series of Alberto Breccia releases with this graphic biography of the polarizing Argentine icon, Eva Perón, popularly ...
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Book Review: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1927
By Kent Conrad |
Krazy Kat is the kind of thing that doesn't happen. The comic strip ran for almost 30 years despite irritation ...
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Book Review: Talespin: Flight of the Sky-Raker and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 2
By Kent Conrad |
Disney Afternoon was a staple of after-school procrastination for nearly a decade, from 1990-1997. Several of those years included my ...
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Book Review: Spa by Erik Svetoft
By Mat Brewster |
Swedish writer/illustrator Erik Svetoft's Spa is a Kafkaesque adventure that plunges into a Lynchian nightmare. Set in a high-class, luxury ...
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Book Review: The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands by Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot
By Steve Geise |
The latest work from powerhouse French graphic novelist duo Ruppert and Merlot imagines a world much like our own with ...
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Book Review: Kevin Smith: His Films and Fans, Compiled & Edited by David Gati
By David Wangberg |
No matter what you think of director Kevin Smith, there’s no denying that the 52-year-old filmmaker has something out of ...
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Book Review: Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen by Fred Goodman
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Fred Goodman takes readers on a tour of Rock on Film for Turner Classic Movies. After revealing his first ...
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Book Review: Tonechaser – Understanding Edward: My 26-Year Journey with Edward Van Halen by Steve Rosen
By Jade Blackmore |
While there have been many books chronicling Eddie Van Halen’s life and music, Steve Rosen’s Tonechaser is by the far ...
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Book Review: Being Bond: A Daniel Craig Retrospective by Mark Salisbury
By David Wangberg |
Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond in No Time to Die reminded us all how much of an impact ...
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Book Review: TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema by Millie De Chirico & Quatoyiah Murry
By Gordon S. Miller |
Since October 27, 2006, TCM Underground, as stated on the book's jacket, has been a “Turner Classic Movies series that ...
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Book Review: Five Decembers by James Kestrel
By Greg Hammond |
Joe McGrady has been a beat cop in Hawaii since he left the Army five years ago. But it’s the ...
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Book Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Dan Watters and Dev Pramanik
By Steve Geise |
The creators of this new graphic novel were faced with three apparent approaches to its production: craft an adaptation of ...
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Comic Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero #299: The Penultimate Issue at IDW Sets up an Exciting Finale
By generaljabbo |
For being the penultimate issue of G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, issue #299 (part four of the “All ...
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Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero: Saturday Morning Adventures: The TV Show Comes to Life in This Fun Miniseries
By generaljabbo |
During the 1980s, G.I. Joe - A Real American Hero, was seemingly everywhere. What began as a successful toy line ...
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Book Review: G.I. Joe – A Real American Hero 40th Anniversary Special by Larry Hama
By generaljabbo |
The 1960s had G.I. Joe, America’s Movable Fighting Man, a series of doll-sized action figures that highlighted all branches of ...
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TV Review: Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book
By Steve Geise |
After 40 years of ongoing publication, the Love & Rockets comic book is long overdue for a celebratory retrospective. Thankfully, ...
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Book Review: Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films Celebrating Cinema’s Greatest Stunts by Scott McGee
By Joe Garcia III |
Relive some of motion picture’s most exciting moments through action-packed, full-color photos in Danger on the Silver Screen: 50 Films ...
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Book Review: Disneyanity: Of ‘Walt’ & Religion by Douglas Brode
By Joe Garcia III |
Disneyanity isn't a theological work of compare and contrast or how Disney and world religions stack up against one another. ...
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Book Review: Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren
By Steve Geise |
A young Latina politician runs for and wins office in New York as a virtual unknown, ousting a veteran incumbent ...
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Book Review: Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story by Jay Bergen
By Jade Blackmore |
Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story by Jay Bergen recounts one of John Lennon’s less publicized legal ...
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Book Review: It’s Alive! by Julian David Stone
By Joe Garcia III |
Inspired by true events! It’s Alive! is a fantastic, fictional account of the final days leading up to the filming ...
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Book Review: Tough Tender by Max Allan Collins
By Greg Hammond |
Tough Tender, by Max Allan Collins, is the latest double-issue reprint from Hard Case Crime book publishers and includes two ...
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Book Review: The Junction by Norm Konyu
By Steve Geise |
Far too rarely, a graphic novel lands in the market with such an assured sense of style and substance that ...
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Book Review: Girls on Film: Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies by Alicia Malone
By Davy |
The lovely Alicia Malone has proven herself to be a great film reporter, writer, and fellow movie geek. One of ...
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Book Review: The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street by Trevor Crafts
By Gordon S. Miller |
If you are the kind of person who not only enjoys magic tricks, but wants to know how they saw ...
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Book Review: Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
By Kent Conrad |
Alfred Hitchcock was a weird guy. That's not a slur on his character, but a statement of fact. He was ...
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Book Review: Otto Preminger: The Man Who Be King by Foster Hirsch
By Davy |
The legendary (for better and worse) Otto Preminger was one of the most influential and progressive people in Hollywood history. ...
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Book Review: Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood by Leonard Maltin
By David Wangberg |
He has covered the entertainment industry since he was 13 years old. At some point, maybe even right now, his ...
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Book Review: Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
By Davy |
Censorship is a long and deranged form of limitation toward the freedoms and boundless expression in all forms of media, ...
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From the Couch Hole: Got to Pay Your Dues
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we went into Cream and KrispyKreme. The previous episode was pretty funyan and we talked about Love/Hate ...
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Book Review: Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It by Eve Golden
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you saw a headline about a blonde bombshell actress living in a “pink palace” with her muscular husband, pack ...
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Book Review: Alien 3 by Pat Cadigan, based on the Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson
By Mark Buckingham |
Alien 3 has been saddled with challenges since it was first announced. Multiple directors and screenplay efforts came forward, and ...
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From the Couch Hole: Dreaming My Life Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we spoke about sassy spirits, snakes in the spice aisle, and spicy sweet Dew. This week continued ...
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Book Review: The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 29: 1976-1977 by Chester Gould
By Gordon S. Miller |
Chester Gould's Dick Tracy comic strip debuted on October 4, 1931 named after its lead character, a by-the-book police detective ...
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Book Review: The Art and Making of The Stand by Andy Burns
By Jack Cormack |
Priced at $45, The Art and Making of The Stand (Titan Books) is a coffee-table bit of glossiness devoted to ...
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