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Your Studio and You
Posted on February 10, 2009 by latenighter
Part One
Part Two
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Fieffer’s Explainers
Posted on December 27, 2008 by latenighter
With all the talk about the death of the Newspaper floating in the atmosphere and Little Murders in mind, I wanted to turn an eye towards Fieffer’s editorial cartoon work.
Here’s the fantagraphics’ press release:
In 1956, a relatively unknown cartoonist by the name of Jules Feiffer started contributing a strip to the only alternative weekly published [...]
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Likely Stories Double Feature
Posted on August 8, 2008 by latenighter
In the early 80s, David Jablin created a comedy anthology program called “Likely Stories” for HBO/Cinemax. It featured the directorial debuts of actor/directors like Danny DeVito and Christopher Guest. And lucky for us, it’s available on YouTube!
Likely Stories can be adult in its themes and presentation but never dumb. Dark humor and satire is [...]
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Love Workshop
Posted on July 13, 2008 by latenighter
Over at Bostworld, Derrick Bostrom has been digging up a radio show from Phoenix’s past for which he has lots of love. Derrick Bostrom says…
‘ “Love Workshop” was a fifteen-minute comedy program that ran on KDKB-FM radio in Phoenix, Arizona for most of 1976. The show was always somewhat of a mystery to me. During [...]
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Looking Out for Army @ Love Volume 2
Posted on July 5, 2008 by latenighter
The Dr Strangelove of the 21st Century is a comic and it is Rick Veitch’s Army @ Love. The Hot Zone Club, Volume One, is available online wherever you get your graphics fix. Satire is not dead.
clipped from www.rickveitch.com
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