Irregular Orbit

Kirby’s Hot Hand

M.Ace — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:26:30 +0000

The Comics Journal presents a wide ranging three-part roundtable discussion on the occasion of the new book, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby.

Bill Griffith: Lost and Found

M.Ace — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:26:44 +0000

Bill Griffith: Lost and Found – Comics 1969-2003 by Bill Griffith (2011) – A fat volume compiling material ranging from Mr. G’s early underground comix to later non-newspaper strip work. I am amazed at the crudeness of his earliest stuff. Not the content — with underground comix I expect that (and you are warned). But the technique. The earliest work I’d seen previously was mid-1970s, when his draftsmanship was quite deft and cross-hatched luxuriously. Surprising to see that there was a time when he was almost as bad as… me, for example.

Cecil Taylor

M.Ace — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:29:59 +0000

Cecil Taylor: A Celebration of the Maestro is happening all through May at NY’s Issue Project Room, Harlem Stage and Anthology Film Archives.

Beyond The Dürer

M.Ace — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:27:41 +0000

Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings, 1400–1700 is running at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 3.

Maximum Lomax

M.Ace — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:37:06 +0000

The vast Alan Lomax Archive has gone online via the Association for Cultural Equity. An overwhelming ocean of historic field recordings from around the world.

Kirby Kollage

M.Ace — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:26:34 +0000

An overview of Jack Kirby’s collage work, contextualized with examples from many other artists.

The Futurological Congress

M.Ace — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:41:10 +0000

The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem (1971) – A seminar of futurologists is caught in a crossfire of psychoactive crowd control chemical warfare, and a chaos of nested hallucinations ensues. Clever, but cold.

M.Ace — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:34:35 +0000

Even more interviews with artists Robert Crumb and Daniel Clowes.

Surf Beat

M.Ace — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:54:37 +0000

Surf Beat: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Forgotten Revolution by Kent Crowley (2011) – Instro is one of my most favorite musical genres, and I really wanted to like this book — a good-hearted effort — but I was sadly disappointed. More proofreading and fact checking, please. Less repetition and topic hopping, thank you.

Gilliam

M.Ace — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:45:55 +0000

Terry Gilliam talks about films and funnybooks.