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Post by MDG on Oct 5, 2022 20:00:12 GMT -5
Beto Hernandez posted that there is a 40th Anniversary Love and Rockets documentary airing on PBS tonight at 9 (I think the show is Artbound). It's not airing on our local PBS though, which is airing an episode of Nova about HIV in America instead. It is supposed to be posted online eventually. I know there are some L&R fans here, so I am sharing the info. Hopefully your PBS station is choosing to carry it, ours doesn't carry Artbound at all it seems. -M I think I read somewhere that it'll also be on the PBS app and possibly YouTube if you miss it tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2022 13:48:02 GMT -5
You can watch the L&R documentary here-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 6, 2022 14:53:28 GMT -5
I was watching the 1977 film The Uncanny on Youtube yesterday and what makes a very noticeable appearance in it? A somewhat battered issue of Flash #246!
Since the comic has nothing to do with the plot, I wonder why it ended there instead of any other reading material. Perhaps the people responsible for the props were told "what, we don't have a book for the character to pretend reading? Go get something cheap at the corner store!"
On the other hand, a Tarzan comic is also briefly seen in another seen. It could be that there was a comic fan on set.
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Post by MDG on Oct 6, 2022 15:27:42 GMT -5
I was watching the 1977 film The Uncanny on Youtube yesterday and what makes a very noticeable appearance in it? A somewhat battered issue of Flash #246! Since the comic has nothing to do with the plot, I wonder why it ended there instead of any other reading material. Perhaps the people responsible for the props were told "what, we don't have a book for the character to pretend reading? Go get something cheap at the corner store!" Yeah, but how's the movie? (Seriously--it came up somewhere recently and i put it in my Tubi queue. Any good?)
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 6, 2022 15:45:19 GMT -5
I was watching the 1977 film The Uncanny on Youtube yesterday and what makes a very noticeable appearance in it? A somewhat battered issue of Flash #246! Since the comic has nothing to do with the plot, I wonder why it ended there instead of any other reading material. Perhaps the people responsible for the props were told "what, we don't have a book for the character to pretend reading? Go get something cheap at the corner store!" Yeah, but how's the movie? (Seriously--it came up somewhere recently and i put it in my Tubi queue. Any good?) It's an unpretentious B-movie, good for what it is but little more. I give it an extra half star for evoking an issue of House of Mystery (with three short stories with a spooky theme and a framing sequence). Its highlights are Peter Cushing in a framing sequence, plus (to me!) the fact that it was directed by a fellow Québecois and was partly shot in Montreal. Extra points for working with cats, which is probably rather difficult! (I love the way cats are depicted as attacking someone at some point, but are obviously thrown at the victim by someone off-screen!) We're also treated to a genuine Easter egg, as a certain character from another franchise (one with a fondness for cats) is briefly seen. I did enjoy it, but would not pay to see in in the theatre.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2022 16:00:16 GMT -5
You can watch the L&R documentary here-M I watched the doc this afternoon. As someone who didn't know a lot about L&R and Los Bros Hernandez (I've read a couple of the L&R collections and been aware of L&R for a long time but never really dove into it) I found it extremely informative and insightful. I am not sure it would be the same for someone who has been an aficionado of the book or the brothers and who has made a deep dive into their oeuvre, but it was an interesting, watchable, and enjoyable documentary. -M
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Post by MDG on Oct 8, 2022 16:46:54 GMT -5
Yeah, but how's the movie? (Seriously--it came up somewhere recently and i put it in my Tubi queue. Any good?) It's an unpretentious B-movie, good for what it is but little more. I give it an extra half star for evoking an issue of House of Mystery (with three short stories with a spooky theme and a framing sequence). Its highlights are Peter Cushing in a framing sequence, plus (to me!) the fact that it was directed by a fellow Québecois and was partly shot in Montreal. Extra points for working with cats, which is probably rather difficult! (I love the way cats are depicted as attacking someone at some point, but are obviously thrown at the victim by someone off-screen!) We're also treated to a genuine Easter egg, as a certain character from another franchise (one with a fondness for cats) is briefly seen. I did enjoy it, but would not pay to see in in the theatre. So, I'm watching this. They should've found an issue of The Atom.
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Post by MDG on Oct 8, 2022 18:40:40 GMT -5
You can watch the L&R documentary here-M I watched the doc this afternoon. As someone who didn't know a lot about L&R and Los Bros Hernandez (I've read a couple of the L&R collections and been aware of L&R for a long time but never really dove into it) I found it extremely informative and insightful. I just finished it. There was a lot to like about it, but it lacked a sense of fun and excitement, especially around the time it came out. Five minutes in, I remarked to my son that it had the feel of a dozen other “art” docs I’ve seen, and in its effort to put L&R in a larger context of “art” and “literature,” just about left out putting it in the context of comics. Interviewed a half-dozen academics, but not a single other cartoonist.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2022 19:02:25 GMT -5
I watched the doc this afternoon. As someone who didn't know a lot about L&R and Los Bros Hernandez (I've read a couple of the L&R collections and been aware of L&R for a long time but never really dove into it) I found it extremely informative and insightful. I just finished it. There was a lot to like about it, but it lacked a sense of fun and excitement, especially around the time it came out. Five minutes in, I remarked to my son that it had the feel of a dozen other “art” docs I’ve seen, and in its effort to put L&R in a larger context of “art” and “literature,” just about left out putting it in the context of comics. Interviewed a half-dozen academics, but not a single other cartoonist. Yeah the only other "comics" people they interviewed were Groth and the guy from Fantagraphics whose name escapes me at the moment), who are neither academics nor cartoonists. But it's tone was pretty much the one all the docs for that PBS series seem to fall into-it's the same attitude/approach I have seen in a lot of academic/literary circles-there are certain comics they can take seriously (Maus-which started it all when it won the Pulitzer and they had to take it seriously-Chris Ware and stuff from that literary end of the indy/underground zone, but they can't take comics as a whole seriously. It's becoming less common, but that current is still there in certain circles, usually ones that have an air of pretentiousness and take themselves much too seriously, but this PBS art series seems to fall within that circle. Still as someone who enjoys many documentaries and didn't know a whole lot beyond common knowledge acquired by osmosis as a comics fan about L&R, I like the doc and found it useful. But yeah, I would love to have seen reactions form more cartoonists/creators, even if it was limited to folks like spiegelman, Ware and such. -M
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Post by berkley on Oct 8, 2022 21:44:37 GMT -5
You can watch the L&R documentary here-M
Thanks, will certainly be giving this a look!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2022 14:06:59 GMT -5
Al Williamson and Marie Severin circa 1951 i.e. the EC Days, Al was 20 and Marie 22 in this pic. -M
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2022 14:14:43 GMT -5
Jack and Roz Kirby just before Jack was deployed to the European theatre in WWII. -M
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 11, 2022 14:40:36 GMT -5
Jack and Roz Kirby just before Jack was deployed to the European theatre in WWII. -M When I read that Roz was basically the inspiration for Barda, I expected Jack to be dwarfed by her
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Post by berkley on Oct 11, 2022 14:54:35 GMT -5
Al Williamson and Marie Severin circa 1951 i.e. the EC Days, Al was 20 and Marie 22 in this pic. -M
I don't think I've ever seen a picture of either of them at so young an age. Marie especially looks so different to how I usually picture her.
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Post by tonebone on Oct 11, 2022 16:07:57 GMT -5
Al Williamson and Marie Severin circa 1951 i.e. the EC Days, Al was 20 and Marie 22 in this pic. -M That is a hell of a lot of talent in that there photo.
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