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...very important to me at the period I was making “Breakdowns.” When I’m trying to evoke a certain mood I’ll put on something like Eric Dolphy or Erik Satie. I think film is an interesting cousin to comics??and it’s dangerous to think of comics as storyboards—but inevitably some kinds of silent movie story-telling, noir film and non-narrative film that were beginning to be exposed during the period of the “Breakdowns” stuff...
...half of the Boston burlesque-rock duo, The Dresden Dolls—and with cabaret stockings and hints of stage makeup, he looks the part. He and Dolls lead singer Amanda M. Palmer were the main attraction during the festivities at Harvard Square’s Newbury Comics??a place Viglione described as “The Mecca of all things cool”—for the first annual Record Store Day last Saturday.Organized by an alliance of music stores, including greater Boston area chain Newbury Comics, Record Store Day was celebrated nationwide with in-store...
...competitive vitriol. After all, it’s not often that three comic book retailers coexist in a one-mile radius—much less coexist for decades, as these stores have.Yet, according to the people who work at those three stores—Picnic, Newbury, and New England Comics??that kind of friendly competition and cooperation makes their stores particularly friendly to comics newcomers. As Bacon says, “Every store suits a niche.”Picnic, located on Mt. Auburn St., is probably the most overtly newbie-friendly of the three, featuring a special...
...Halloween: Resurrection,” and is currently working on an independent film, “GRETA,” starring Hillary Duff and Ellen Burstyn.Reginald A. Hudlin ’83 is the President of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and is currently writing the script for the Marvel Comics?? “Black Panther.” Choosing to take a different route from these predecessors, VES concentrator Anna F. Ludwig ’04 decided to work in a law firm immediately following graduation, partly for economic reasons.She says that, about a year ago, she realized...
...ideological biases and partialities of Team America—the collective minds that write, edit and draw the Captain America comics??are apparent. It’s no coincidence that the source of the comic hero’s plight shares similarities with our government’s highly-polarizing Patriot Act, or that enemies of freedom (read: terrorists) were responsible for the assassination of this idealistic symbol of liberty...