Young fogey cartoonists Adrian Tomine and Seth discuss their own work and some neglected masters at Quimby’s.
Author Archives: Ben Schwartz
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The Comedy Behind the Tragedy
You know Lenny Bruce, the free-speech hero. But how well do you know his work?
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The Comedy Behind the Tragedy
You know Lenny Bruce, the free-speech hero. But how well do you know his work?
Posted inNews & Politics
The Real Clark Kents
Engaging biography meets strained social history in Gerard Jones’s new book about the nebbishes who made Superman.
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The Real Clark Kents
Engaging biography meets strained social history in Gerard Jones’s new book about the nebbishes who made Superman.
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Culture Jamming for the Swingset Set
Topps Wacky packages, out in their first new edition since 1991, train kids to question corporate America.
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Culture Jamming for the Swingset Set
Topps Wacky packages, out in their first new edition since 1991, train kids to question corporate America.
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Sweetback & Son
The working title of Mario Van Peebles’s Baadasssss! was “How to Get the Man’s Foot Outta Your Ass,” which, though wordier, gives a better idea of its thrust. The film is a dramatized account of how Van Peebles’s father, Melvin, made Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, the 1971 indie flick that showed the world there was […]
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Sisyphus in a Striped Shirt
Peanuts seethed with alienation and self-doubt–not unlike the man who created it.
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Sisyphus in a Striped Shirt
Peanuts seethed with alienation and self-doubt–not unlike the man who created it.
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That’s Our Girl
We have met the vacant, randy Hilton heiress, and she is us.
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That’s Our Girl
We have met the vacant, randy Hilton heiress, and she is us.
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Light Heavyweight
Baseball fans know that the problem with a perfect game is that it’s boring. The pitcher has thrown a work of art—no hits, no home runs, no sacrifices, no bottom-of-the-ninth heroics—but the genius is in the details, not the highlight reel. For some critics, that may also be the problem with Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me […]