'Comics in Context'
Posted Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 4:09am
Christopher Stipp takes some time to acknowledge the untimely passing of John Hughes. He then gets his heart shredded by actress/writer Charlyne Yi and director/writer Nick Jasenovec as they talk PAPER HEART…
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Posted Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 5:06am
Peter returns with an in-depth look at Christopher Nolan’s second big screen take on Batman, THE DARK KNIGHT…
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Posted Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 3:34am
Peter sanderson recounts Peter Coogan’s presentation of the sartorial choices of superheroes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - plus some talk of Stephen Colbert, to boot…
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Posted Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 4:55am
Peter’s back with an in-depth look at the cinematic do-over featuring everyone’s favorite gamma-monster, THE INCREDIBLE HULK…
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Posted Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 6:16am
Peter takes in the Big Apple’s World Science Festival and gets all super-sciencey, including encountering the real Dr. Savage…
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Posted Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 5:16am
Peter Sanderson takes in a very special superhero fashion exhibition at the Met, talks some Iron Man, and mentions a few cartoon centennials…
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Posted Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 4:50am
Peter Sanderson continues his in-depth blow-by-blow look at the New York Comic-Con, with a special panel reflecting on cons past…
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Posted Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 at 3:18am
Peter Sanderson takes a look at the rapidly expanding New York Comic-Con, and whether or not it’s a serious challenger to the San Diego behemoth…
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Posted Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 2:01am
Peter continues his in-depth look at Mark Evanier’s mighty tome KIRBY: KING OF COMICS and the man behind the legend, Jack Kirby…
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Posted Monday, March 31st, 2008 at 0:03am
Peter continues his in-depth look at Mark Evanier’s mighty tome KIRBY: KING OF COMICS and the man behind the legend, Jack Kirby…
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Posted Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 0:02am
After a short break - and the formal release of the book - Peter returns to his in-depth look at Mark Evanier’s mighty tome KIRBY: KING OF COMICS…
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Posted Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 2:19am
Peter turns his eye towards Disney’s ENCHANTED, discusses how it’s not the first time that the 2-D and 3-D worlds have crossed over, and spends SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE…
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Posted Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 2:06am
Peter dives into the recent animated adaptation of Darwyn Cooke’s JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER, and takes an in-depth look at the original series of graphic novels that spawned it…
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Posted Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 2:25am
Peter continues his look back on the work of the late, great Steve Gerber, this week focusing on Gerber’s OMEGA THE UNKNOWN…
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Posted Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 4:46am
Peter continues his look back on the work of the late, great Steve Gerber, this week focusing on Howard the Duck…
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Posted Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 2:11am
Peter looks back on the work of the late, great Steve Gerber…
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Posted Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 17:43pm
Peter continues his journey into the world of online animated cartoons, this week focusing on Fleischer SUPERMANs, Fox & the Crow, TOM TERRIFIC, BEANY & CECIL, and more…
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Posted Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 0:03am
Peter’s been diving into the world of online animated cartoons, this week focusing on silent FELIX THE CAT cartoons, more Winsor McCay and Koko, George Pal’s PUPPETOONS, and some bizarre Columbia animated shorts…
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Posted Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 at 13:00pm
Peter takes a look at Disney’s recent reclamation of their first, pre-Mickey Mouse animated star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit…
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Posted Monday, January 21st, 2008 at 2:00am
Peter takes issue with Marvel’s latest character upheaval - the Faustian erasure of Peter Parker’s marriage to Mary Jane - and what it means to Spider-Man…
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Posted Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 at 3:17am
Peter dives into MST3K alumnus Frank Conniff’s CARTOON DUMP, which also features selections from animation historian Jerry Beck’s “Worst Cartoons Ever Made” library…
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Posted Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 5:06am
Peter kicks off the new year with part 2 of his review of Mark Evanier’s Jack Kirby book, KIRBY: KING OF COMICS, including a digression about the BBC documentary IN SEARCH OF STEVE DITKO…
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Posted Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 at 0:26am
In this pre-Christmas column, Peter digs into an advance copy of Mark Evanier’s long-awaited KIRBY: KING OF COMICS, an art book devoted to the career of the late Jack Kirby, co-creator of the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Captain America, and many more…
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Posted Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 1:23am
Peter goes in-depth on Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s latest LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN adventure, BLACK DOSSIER…
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Posted Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 2:59am
Peter takes on Robert Zemeckis’s mo-cap BEOWULF, and dives into the adaptation work of screenwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary…
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