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...will contain works taken from student and recent alumni projects in the mediums of film, animation, sound art, musical composition, and interactive computer-generated art. The Advocate is modeling its DVD on the Wholphin DVD Magazine, a quarterly distribution of short films published by McSweeney??s. Yet even with this template in mind, Raasch says the DVD’s content is still very much...
...Tradescent Jr.’s second wife, Hester Pookes, contested the validity of the will. What happened next is well documented. “On 4 April 1678 Hester Pookes Tradescant was found drowned in her own shallow pond at South Lambeth,” the magazine McSweeney??s reported in an 1999 article. “With her death the final obstacle was cleared for her neighbor, Elias Ashmole, ‘the greatest virtuoso and curioso that ever was known or read of in England before his time...
Last year, so-hip-it-hurts literary journal “McSweeney??s Quarterly Concern” (with Dave Eggers as editor) published an “all-comics issue” featuring graphic novel artists. The contents included contributors as diverse as bawdy comic legend R. Crumb, the understated Canadian Seth, and existentialist horror artists Charles Burns and Adrian Tomine. Chris Ware, fresh from the impressive critical success with “Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid on Earth,” served as editor...
...whereas Clowes stops at depicting all the people you hate, Burns takes it one step farther, adding monsters and phantasmagoric twists. Burns’ work is best encapsulated in his hilariously disturbing “McSweeney??s” issue title page cover: A silver screen starlet embraces a creature covered in sores while a nuclear mushroom cloud explodes in the background. His work borrows heavily from the pulpy comics of the 1950s but combines the familiar elements with overwhelmingly vivid ink drawings...
...affix pop sensibilities on intricate, narrative lyrics. But perhaps musical reference points aren’t the best way to describe what makes Meloy’s songs so indelible. More than anything else, Meloy is like a musical version of writer/publisher Dave Eggers and much of the McSweeney??s coterie, effortlessly blending wry tongue-in-cheek humor with genuinely-felt storytelling...