Outlaws, Rebels, Freethinkers, & Pirates
Buy It!{Fantagraphics} Bob Levin interviews artists, "...driven by the Hounds of Hell" (back cover hype), but he seems like a supernaturally feral mongrel himself, his…
Comic Book Review: 365
Joe Alterio lives in Seattle now, but once struggled for existence as an aspiring animator in Los Angeles at the beginning of the century. In…
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Buy It!{Simon & Schuster} When a book is deemed a "good summer read", I tend to avoid it. "Summer reading" often indicates something light and quick…
Puget Sound: 15 Stories
Buy It!{Pleasure Boat Studio} A couple of weeks ago I sat down at an Upper West Side restaurant for a wet lunch with an old…
Melinda and Melinda
"Of course I'm communicating - could we just not talk about it?" Woody Allen's latest annual offering, Melinda and Melinda, tells two different tales of…
Love & Taxes
The Intiman's press notes for its current production claim that writer/performer Josh Kornbluth is best known for the 1992 comic monologue Red Diaper Baby, his…
Before Sunset
"If you don't believe in any magic or mystery in life, you are basically dead." In the spring of 1995 I had just finished a…
Touching the Void
"If you don't make decisions, you're stuffed." OK, mountain climbing is not for me. There is no damn way I'm gonna use ice-axes and weird…
Friday Night
If you've seen Beau Travail, and especially if you like boys, you're probably well aware that director Claire Denis is a fantastic sensualist. Her masterpiece…