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The Duplex Planet
''The Duplex Planet'' is a zine edited and published by David Greenberger since 1979. It contains transcriptions of his interviews with elderly residents of senior centers and "meal sites" in the Massachusetts area. For many years, the zine focused on the residents of the Duplex Nursing Home, located in Boston. ''The Duplex Planet'' has subsequently found larger audiences in other forms — which are all derived from the original template — including book collections, spoken-word recordings, and a series of concerts. A series of personal commentaries drawn from Greenberger's experiences with this body of work has aired regularly on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered". Some of the Duplex Nursing Home residents, all identified by name, became recurring characters in the zine and its various offshoots and adaptations. Background In 1979, having just completed a degree in fine arts as a painter, Greenberger took a job as activities director at the Duplex Nursing H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saratoga Springs, New York
Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 28,491 at the 2020 census. The name reflects the presence of mineral springs in the area, which has made Saratoga a popular resort destination for over 200 years. It is home to the Saratoga Race Course, a thoroughbred horse racing track, and Saratoga Performing Arts Center, a music and dance venue. The city's official slogan is "Health, History, and Horses." History The British built Fort Saratoga in 1691 on the west bank of the Hudson River. Shortly thereafter, British colonists settled the current village of Schuylerville approximately one mile south; it was known as Saratoga until 1831. Native Americans believed the springs about 10 miles (16 km) west of the village—today called High Rock Spring—had medicinal properties. In 1767, William Johnson, a British soldier who was a hero of the French and Indian War, was brought by Native American friends to the spring to treat his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is an American musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in 1980.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 226-7 The music of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is almost entirely instrumental, and incorporates many different musical elements; critic Rick Anderson writes, "Very few bands have ever managed to straddle the worlds of modern classical music and rock as successfully as this one did." In his liner notes for their ''Beat of the Mesozoic'' EP, Boston rock critic Eric Van dubbed them "the world's hardest-rocking chamber music quartet." Another memorable description came from Jim Sullivan of the ''Boston Globe'': "classical-punk-jazz-car-wreck music." Band history Origins Birdsongs owes its origins to the 1978 breakup of the Boston post-punk band Moving Parts, which included Erik Lindgren (vocals, keyboards) and Roger Miller (vocals, guitar). Miller went on to form the seminal post-punk group Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame Darcy
Darcy Megan Stanger (born June 19, 1971, Caldwell, Idaho), better known by the pen name Dame Darcy, is an alternative comics, alternative cartoonist, fine artist, musician, cabaret performer, and animator/filmmaker. Her "Neo-Victorian" comic book series ''Meatcake (comics), Meat Cake'' was published by Fantagraphics Books from 1993–2008. The ''Meat Cake Bible'' compilation was released in June 2016 and nominated for The Eisner Award July 2017. ''Vegan Love: Dating and Partnering for the Cruelty-Free Gal, with Fashion, Makeup & Wedding Tips,'' written by Maya Gottfried and illustrated by Dame Darcy, was the Silver Medalist winners of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2018. Her self-published Tarot decks went viral world wide in 2012 with a second wave in 2018 for the Dame Darcy Mermaid Tarot Gold Edition deck and Queen Alice Tarot deck and were listed as Etsy Bestsellers in 2018. Dame Darcy's autobiographical graphic novel, ''Hi Jax & Hi Jinx (Life's a Pitch and Then You ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson "Chris" Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American cartoonist known for his '' Acme Novelty Library'' series (begun 1994) and the graphic novels ''Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth'' (2000), ''Building Stories'' (2012) and '' Rusty Brown'' (2019). His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style. Ware often refers to himself in the publicity for his work in self-effacing, even withering tones. He is considered by some critics and fellow notable illustrators and writers, such as Dave Eggers, to be among the best currently working in the medium; Canadian graphic-novelist Seth has said, "Chris really changed the playing field. After him, a lot of artoonistsreally started to scramble and go, 'Holy xpletive I think I have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Woodring
James William Woodring (born October 11, 1952) is an American cartoonist, fine artist, writer and toy designer. He is best known for the dream-based comics he published in his magazine '' Jim'', and as the creator of the anthropomorphic cartoon character Frank, who has appeared in a number of short comics and graphic novels. Since he was a child, Woodring has experienced hallucinatory "apparitions", which have inspired much of his surreal work. He keeps an "autojournal" of his dreams, some of which have formed the basis of some of his comics. His most famous creation is fictional—the pantomime comics set in the universe he calls the Unifactor, usually featuring Frank. These stories incorporate a highly personal symbolism largely inspired by Woodring's belief in Vedanta from Hindu philosophy. He also does a large amount of surrealist painting, and has been the writer on a number of comics from licensed franchises published by Dark Horse and others. Woodring identified ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Clowes
Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia * Dan (son of Jacob), one of the 12 sons of Jacob/Israel in the Bible **Tribe of Dan, one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Dan * Crown Prince Dan, prince of Yan in ancient China Places * Dan (ancient city), the biblical location also called Dan, and identified with Tel Dan * Dan, Israel, a kibbutz * Dan, subdistrict of Kap Choeng District, Thailand * Dan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States * Dan River (other) * Danzhou, formerly Dan County, China * Gush Dan, the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv in Israel Organizations *Dan-Air, a defunct airline in the United Kingdom *Dan Bus Company, a public transport company in Israel * Dan Hotels, a hotel chain in Israel *Dan the Tire Man, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drew Friedman (cartoonist)
Drew Friedman is an American cartoonist and illustrator who first gained renown for his humorous artwork and "stippling"-like style of caricature, employing thousands of pen-marks to simulate the look of a photograph. In the mid-1990s, he switched to painting. Friedman's work has appeared in such periodicals as ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''Newsweek'', ''Time'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The New Republic'', ''The New York Observer'', '' Esquire'', '' RAW'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''The Village Voice'' and '' Mad''. His works have been anthologized in seven collections, and he has illustrated a number of books, including Howard Stern's '' Private Parts'' and '' Miss America,'' as well as books of portraits released under his own name. Biography Since the 1990s, Friedman has provided caricature illustrations for mainstream publications. However, he first attracted public attention in the 1980s producing morbid alternative comics stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archer Prewitt
Archer Prewitt (born 1963 in Frankfort, Kentucky) is an American musician and cartoonist associated with the independent music scene in Chicago, Illinois. Biography Music Prewitt enrolled in the Kansas City Art Institute and began drumming in the band Tunnel Dogs and then Mudhead. Archer also played bass in Kansas City local favorites the Bangtails. A song by the Bangtails appears on the 2020 compilation ''Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987''. He then co-founded The Coctails, who moved from Kansas City to Chicago after their first album (1989) and went on to release six albums in all by the time they played their last show on New Year's Eve 1995/96. By then Prewitt had also been involved with a new project, The Sea and Cake, who have released several critically acclaimed albums. Concomitant with his work in The Sea and Cake, Prewitt produced several solo releases. Comics and illustration In addition to his music, Prewitt is a freelance illustrator, ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge (pronounced , as in ''bag''; born December 11, 1957) is an American cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics ''Hate'' and '' Neat Stuff''. His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth. He won two Harvey Awards in 1991, one for best cartoonist and one for his work on ''Hate''. In recent decades Bagge has done more fact-based comics, everything from biographies to history to comics journalism. Publishers of Bagge's articles, illustrations, and comics include suck.com, ''MAD Magazine'', toonlet, ''Discover'', and the ''Weekly World News'', with the comic strip '' Adventures of Batboy''. He has expressed his libertarian views in features for ''Reason''. Early life Peter Bagge was born in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in the New York City suburbs. Bagge's father was in the military and Bagge has talked about how his Catholic household was the scene of "lots of drunken figh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry LaBan
Terry LaBan (born July 19, 1961) is an alternative comics, alternative/underground cartoonist and newspaper comic strip artist. He is known for his comic book series ''Cud'', and his syndicated strip ''Edge City'', created with his wife, Patty LaBan, a couples and family therapist. LaBan is known for his sympathetic and believable characters, real-life dialogue, tight cartoon style and straightforward storytelling. Political cartoons LaBan began his career in 1986, freelancing political cartoons for the ''Ann Arbor News''. He's been staff illustrator and political cartoonist for the progressive political magazine ''In These Times'' since 1990. ''Unsupervised Existence'' and ''Cud'' LaBan's first foray into comics was his series ''Unsupervised Existence'', published by Fantagraphics beginning in 1989. Loosely based on LaBan's own life at the time, ''Unsupervised Existence'' was a semi-humorous comic book soap opera which followed the adventures of Suzy and Danny, a young, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Altergott
Rick Altergott (born 1961)"Artists," ''Raw, Boiled, and Cooked: Comics on the Verge'', edited by Paul Candler (Last Gasp, 2004), p. 86. is an American Alternative comics, alternative cartoonist and illustrator. Altergott is best known for ''Doofus (comics), Doofus'', a long-running Lowbrow (art movement), low-brow, scatology, scatological series of strips which chronicle the misadventures of two small-town weirdos, Doofus and Henry Hotchkiss. Life and career Altergott got his Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA in film from the Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. He met and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Leib
Gary David Leib (October 29, 1955 – March 19, 2021) was an American underground cartoonist, animator, and musician. Best known for the comic book '' Idiotland'' (a two-man anthology produced with Leib's long-time collaborator, Doug Allen), Leib's work also appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''Musician Magazine'', ''The New York Observer'', '' RAW'', ''BLAB!'' and as weekly features in ''New York Press'' for many years. His animation work was featured in films like ''American Ultra'', '' American Splendor'', and ''Happiness''.Dean, Michael"Gary Leib: 1955 – 2021,"''The Comics Journal'' (March 23, 2021). Leib was a founding member of the Grammy Award-nominated band Rubber Rodeo, which recorded two albums for Mercury Records. He created original music for independent and feature films, including the critically acclaimed '' Ironweed''. Biography Leib was born in Chicago, Illinois, the eldest of four children, and grew up in Lincolnwood. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
