I am of the opinion that “bad taste” is a good thing. It’s the most ridiculously subjective concept imaginable: what offends me (admittedly, very little) might be absolutely awesome to you, and we each have a right to our opinions.
I was fortunate enough to be the editor and, along with ComicMix co-conspirator John Ostrander, co-conceiver of a DC Comics series called Wasteland. It was the black hole of humor, a monthly love-letter to bad taste. The stories usually had a point with enough wiggle-room in each concept to cause the reader night sweats. John wrote the series, often in tandem with improv legend Del Close, and we had a rotating gaggle of extraordinarily gifted artists as our visual collaborators. We’d have four going at any one time: three doing interior stories and one doing the cover. The one who did the cover in month one would do...
I was fortunate enough to be the editor and, along with ComicMix co-conspirator John Ostrander, co-conceiver of a DC Comics series called Wasteland. It was the black hole of humor, a monthly love-letter to bad taste. The stories usually had a point with enough wiggle-room in each concept to cause the reader night sweats. John wrote the series, often in tandem with improv legend Del Close, and we had a rotating gaggle of extraordinarily gifted artists as our visual collaborators. We’d have four going at any one time: three doing interior stories and one doing the cover. The one who did the cover in month one would do...
- 5/23/2012
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
The Five Best Pop-Cultural Responses to 9/11 This article contains exactly zero weeping eagles. By Jonathan Weed A few days after September 11, 2001, the avant-garde German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called the September 11 attacks "the biggest work of art there has ever been." Like many statements made by avant-garde German composers, this is ludicrous. His impulse, though, to find some artistic meaning inside the attacks is a natural one: it's what artists do after tragedies. Here are the five best artistic responses to the September 11 attacks. When you're done with these, you'll be pleased to know that we've also selected the five worst. 5. “9/11/2001” New Yorker cover, Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly On Sepetmber 11, 2001, Françoise Mouly, the art editor for the New Yorker, got a phone call saying that she needed to find an artist as quickly as possible to create a new cover for [...]...
- 9/9/2011
- by Jonathan Weed
- Nerve
Yep, the day after I published my long-winded rant on the importance of blogging about personal media, I attended what some might consider the mecca of impersonal commercial media: The 2010 Comic-Con International held every year, so far, in San Diego, California. While the convention runs for four full days, July 22-25, I was only able to go for one day, Saturday the 24th.
The funny thing about Comic-Con, which I also noted last year, is that it’s actually several different conventions slammed into one celebrating several different aspects of pop culture. While all the major media covering Comic-Con focuses on the convention’s more hyped-up, most mainstream genre offerings, there’s still a ton of little reported underground and indie media happenings occurring all over the convention.
I had a different strategy for the Con this year and had a less overwhelming experience than I did for my first Con last year.
The funny thing about Comic-Con, which I also noted last year, is that it’s actually several different conventions slammed into one celebrating several different aspects of pop culture. While all the major media covering Comic-Con focuses on the convention’s more hyped-up, most mainstream genre offerings, there’s still a ton of little reported underground and indie media happenings occurring all over the convention.
I had a different strategy for the Con this year and had a less overwhelming experience than I did for my first Con last year.
- 7/26/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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