Sentences with phrase «underground comics»

This book is drawn like underground comics of the 60s, and is also set in an alternate history 1968.

I started doing underground comic stuff and then I went to grad school and they kind of beat that out of me.

When the punk rock art movement came along there were a lot of punk rock artists who followed underground comics and I had that connection with them.

American Splendor is a movie unlike any other, taken from the pages of Harvey Pekar's autobiographical underground comic book of the same name.

In this one - of - a-kind portrait, Terry Zwigoff takes us deep into the home life of underground comic artist Robert Crumb.

The title of the exhibition, Better than de Kooning, refers to the same - named work created in 2008 by the American artist Peter Saul who, with his concept of painting - appropriation, which is nourished both by Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism as well as by underground comics and political caricature, developed an innovative politpop painting style.

Lovecraft was also a cult writer whose themes were explored in underground comics, in rock music, film, and fine art.

«American Splendor»: Paul Giamatti is a marvel of frumpy embitterment as underground comic - book writer Harvey Pekar.

I started out with underground comics, like Julie Doucet or Twisted Sisters.

Hippie culture, terrorism, the first gleamings of punk, the women's movement, leftist tracts, imagery from underground comics and ethnographic studies all parade across Polke's chaotic picture planes.

Creators Denis Kitchen recalls his first meeting with Will Eisner; Eisner sought him out at one of Phil Seuling's conventions in New York because he was curious about how underground comics worked.

So, Empire had the good fortune to run into Michael Cera the other day (exactly how you imagine him — very nice, very sweet and shy) and we took the time to grill him on two of his upcoming projects: Edgar Wright's adaptation of ace underground comic, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, in which Cera was cast just recently; and the mooted movie adaptation of the wonderful TV show that first brought him to our attention: Arrested Development.

Ghost World is based on Daniel Clowes hit underground comic, and Clowes and Zwigoff faithfully adapt this odd, episodic story to the big screen.

Comics creator Wally Wood asked icon Jack Kirby for a self - portrait, for Wood's 1966 underground comic witzend # 1.

From there she went on to make her own minicomics and intern in an auction house where she discovered underground comics.

«But now the genre has gained shelf space, and we discovered that there's a whole underground comic book culture that's very prolific, and with plenty of talent.

Starting today, UK underground comics publisher Knockabout Comics and digital - comics publisher Sequential are teaming up to publish Neil Gaiman's Lost Tales, a collection of Gaiman's comic strips from the 1980s,...

In 1992, he founded his own underground comics journal, Bitterkomix, with his good friend Anton Kannemeyer.

«She handles paint beautifully, like a traditional painter, yet her figures recall underground comics in how they illustrate uncomfortable or anxiety - inducing circumstances and how they narrate a story.

Along with Robert Crumb he was a founding member of the groundbreaking underground comic Zap Comix.

I was the only underground comic book artist in Southern California.

She studied at East Texas State University with a group of artists devoted to the experimental narrative, which included underground comics and their incendiary, highly nuanced documentation of human nature.

MF: When I was at college, I drew underground comic books and later worked as a caricaturist at NME [New Musical Express].

Influenced by underground comics, punk and metal music, fanzines and graphic design, Bors's work is a postpop amalgamation of politics, cultural references and appropriated and drawn visuals.

Born and educated in Preston, Alwyn Talbot moved to Manchester many years ago and began his apprenticeship in underground comics, notably the Armageddon Patrol series.

Guston's appropriation of the style of underground comics is a crude...

Bradley works in series, pivoting between abstraction and figuration, the earnest and the comic, wielding a range of techniques that draw upon his profound appreciation for the history of modern painting as well as underground comics and outdated periodicals.

«Baba Yaga» (Blue Underground), Corrado Farina's adaptation of the erotic S&M comic by Guido Crepax, is like an underground comic book movie by way of a seventies Italian horror.

The popular actor has played Ben Bernanke in «Too Big To Fail»; John Adams in a television miniseries for which he won an Emmy; Harvey Pekar, an underground comic book writer, in «American Splendor»; and an assortment of other characters.

Terry Zwigoff's 1995 documentary Crumb, which is coming to the Criterion Collection on DVD and Blu - ray in August, is an almost unbelievably intimate portrait of the underground comics icon Robert Crumb, as well as an examination of his controversia...

A mix of Tolkein-esque quest epic and seventies attitude, it was like a PG version of an underground comic book made for the big screen, and was Bakshi's first effort to reach a mainstream audience.

As played by Paul Giamatti, underground comic - book memoirist Harvey Pekar is a cranky yet sympathetic ogre.

For those who love the underground comics scene, especially those who like movies about alternative comics (Crumb and Ghost World come immediately to mind,) American Splendor is as entertaining and interesting a movie you'll find.

The movie is based on an underground comic book by Daniel Clowes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zwigoff.

In this interview from Print magazine's Imprint blog, Kim Munson talks about an iOS and Android app she developed called Comix Classics: Underground Comics based on Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, a book and exhibition on the history of underground comic - book art.

Based on an underground comic book, this lurid thriller is long on nasty shocks but short on spontaneity, intelligence, and good acting.

He was portraying Harvey Pekar, author of the underground comic series «American Splendor,» autobiographical accounts of an ordinary and, yes, depressing life.

Amid fear - inducing bombings in their DC neighborhood and the corruption of Therapeutic Forgetting Clinics and Homeland Inc., the teens cope with their environment by creating an underground comic.

Creators Marc Sobel interviews Ed Piskor about Wizzywig, The Hip Hop Family Tree, his introduction to underground comics as a youth, and going through «cartooning boot camp» with Harvey Pekar, among other things.

the answer is probably yes, if you have an iPad and you like indie and underground comics, particularly those from the United Kingdom.

Take the underground comics, aka comix, of the 1960s that took on subjects Superman never could have with their defiant depictions of sex, drugs, and rock»n' roll.

His visionary paintings draw their inspiration from diverse elements of American subculture — psychedelia, underground comic books, the Chicago Imagists, hip hop and heavy metal — as well as Picasso, Francis Bacon and Roy Lichtenstein.

Women's underground comics were a really big thing for me.

The gift comprises an eclectic mix of artist's books, exhibition catalogs, underground comics, artist multiples, mail art, posters, and gallery invitations.

Long admired by a vast audience for his paintings that combine imagery from a wide variety of sources, Ryden brings together a style influenced by children's book illustrations of the 1940s, underground comics of the 1960s and 70s, arcane symbols from antiquity, and personages from popular culture.

Guston's way of drawing has some strange connection to the kind of drawing that was popular in Chicago, where I'm from — though their work was totally stylized, artists like Barbara Rossi, Jim Nutt and Ray Yoshida, and the prevalence at that time of underground comics and Robert Crumb.