Year of the Month: SUPER FLY — The Album
For soul music, the sixties began in the seventies. Make no mistake, the genre was…
Year of the Month: The Total Inexplicability of SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY
In last December’s article on Manos: The Hands of Fate, I may have undersold the…
Year of the Month: The Silliness, Sadness, and Beauty of SNOOPY COME HOME
If I may repeat myself from the last time we discussed Peanuts: once upon a…
MAUS: A Tragicomic, Tragic Comic
When Maus first came out, many people were shocked not just at how well Art…
Year of the Month: SCALPED Pt. 2 – Paradox on the Prairie
That’s a diverse and distinguished stew of influences, but one of the most important is…
Year of the Month: The Scope of SCALPED (Pt. 1)
If any comic book got off to a better start than this, I’ve yet to…
Year of the Month: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
It’s easy to forget with movies like Bohemian Rhapsody going through the paces so exactly…
Year of the Month: THE SCARLET EMPRESS
If The Black Cat and Dames show Hollywood entering the Code Era so suddenly you…
Year of the Month: THE BLACK CAT
History will tell you that German Expressionism died with the rise of Fascism, but that’s…
DAMES: When Showing and Telling Clash
When The Jazz Singer introduced sound to Hollywood in 1927, it opened up the possibility…