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With the release of 24 Hour Party People in 2002 Tony Wilson became a household name in the minds of the people in the know. The film became a biography of Wilson who is best known for managing such seminal bands as Happy Mondays and Joy Division but due to contracts not being up to legal snuff, Wilson...

Sometimes comic book creators spend so much time on personal works and superhero comics that you forget how good they are at a rousing genre tale. Eddie Campbell has mastered nearly every genre within the comic book medium and just released The Black Diamond...

Its thanks to Mark Britt and his day job as head of publicity at Image Comics that weve gotten some great interviews in the past year. Now it is a pleasure to find that Britt is a talented comic book creator and has just released, Full Color, his first original graphic novel. I got a chance to talk...

If you grew up in the 80s reading Marvel Comics you sure as hell know how talented Jim Valentino is. He had a great period at Marvel through the early 90s with runs on Guardians of the Galaxy and several awesome issues of What If? He left Marvel along with...

No matter if Martin Starr grows a beard, becomes president or discovers the secret for eternal life he will forever be known as the lovable nerd, Bill Haverchuck, from the cult classic TV show Freaks and Geeks. But Starr turns in a hysterical performance in the new Judd...

a sad story, my friends. Today my modest but only beloved camera was likely stolen from me. i am, frankly, horrified.

I have a trip to Japan coming up in early fall and i photo-document life every day, as those of you who check up on my flickr page know.

gah.

GAH.

Patrice Oneal is a funny motherfucker. After seeing him on pundit shows and especially Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn I knew he was a smart guy but it wasnt until our conversation that I realized just how intelligent he is. He can pontificate on nearly any subject...

Make Plan B the first thing you do because his new EP Time 4 Plan B is amazing. Plan B is part of a new generation of hip-hop artists from the UK that are taking hip-hip and adding some English to it. Plan B is a much smarter guy than some people might think. He loves hip-hop and is so damn excited...

Due to his ghost cartooning for Adam Brodys character on The OC, Eric Wight has a higher profile than most of his fellow artists. Now hes parlayed that fame into the excellent new graphic novel My Dead Girlfriend. This new book presented in the Manga format...

Though it may seem like Christopher Titus came out of nowhere with his self titled sitcom a few years ago, hes been a working standup comedian for a long time. His style of comedy belongs more to the school of the Sarah Silvermans and Todd Barrys because...

Few people have disturbed as many people with their work as film director William Friedkin. But since his high point of The French Connection and then The Exorcist, he has yet to make a film that connected so well with the human psyche until now. Bug, based on the play by Tracy Letts, is Friedkins...

Throughout his career, writer/director Luc Besson has always created strong female characters. From Anne Parillaud in La Femme Nikita to Milla Jovovich as Joan of Arc and now Rie Rasmussen as Angel-A in the film of the same name. After such large scale productions as Arthur and the Invisibles and...