Utilitarian Review 1/7/12

On HU

In this week’s Featured Archive post, Kinukitty discusses her irritation with Ghost World.

We looked back at the year on HU.

I talked about the mystery of Yuichi Yokoyama’s Travel.

Domingos Isabelinho reviews Fantagraphics’ Carl Barks volume.

Caroline Small on the illustration work of Ellen Raskin.

Richard Cook on playing the Elder Scrolls v. Skyrim.

Franklin Einspruch and Caroline Small talk about theory, art, and academia.

I talk about Breaking Bad, Weeds, and the addiction of narrative.

And her’s a downloadable Bollywood mix.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Atlantic I talk about The Devil Inside and demonic possession for all.

At Splice I make fun of pundit Ed Kilgore’s desperate attempt to pretend he’s relevant.

And I talk about psychedelic warbler Kali Bahlu and the limits of hippie assimilation, also at Splice.
 
Other Links

A claymation remake of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Franklin Einspruch on bad art in comics.

Scott Meslow on the found footage horror film fad.
 

2 thoughts on “Utilitarian Review 1/7/12

  1. Re: that “bad art in comics” link: I really enjoy the vital energy of Shaw’s work; too bad that someone feels the need to judge on comics that they are unable to even read three pages of, talk about short attention span, never mind throwing stones at the style—I saw some similar criticism of some of my own work, okay, fine if you don’t like it, but it is ridiculous to complain that the art is “ugly”…um, the scripts called for drawings of corrupt cops and government sponsored torture! Pretty isn’t what is called for!

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