In today’s world, no country can feel 100% safe from an attack by a foreign power, especially if the assault is technological in nature. The upcoming 2013 independent feature film Dragon Day shows the United States of America falling victim to such a crippling security breech, and to make matters worse, the threat comes not...
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September 1, 2013September 1, 2013Interviews
Therapy Session: Interview with Orange Is the New Black’s Michael Harney
Police detective, SWAT commander, Blackjack pit boss, FBI agent, assistant district attorney, U.S. Marshal—these are just a few of the many roles that veteran stage, feature film and television actor Michael Harney has portrayed in his long career. Currently, he can be seen as Sam Healy in the new hit Netflix series Orange Is the...
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August 26, 2013August 26, 2013Books
Comics: Robert Sodaro on Kickstarting The Owlgirls
I’ve known Robert Sodaro for about five years now. We were first introduced by the driving force behind Atlas Unleashed, Mark Mazz, during one of the early incarnations of the New York Comic-Con. Sodaro and I have kept in close contact ever since. One of the important things that helped cement our friendship quickly is...
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July 19, 2013July 19, 2013Books
Inteview with Paul Levinson, Author of Unburning Alexandria
Did you know that the Greek philosopher Socrates is buried in the Bronx? Yep. His tombstone reads “Socrates 470BC-2042AD.” You get used to reading verbal bombshells like that when you read Paul Levinson’s science fiction works. In them traveling through time is as possible as traveling through space. Like traveling through space, it requires some...
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May 29, 2013November 10, 2025News
Book Review: The Godfather: The Official Motion Picture Archives by Peter Cowie
Anyone with even a passing interest in Francis Ford Coppola’s famed trilogy of Mafia films would do well to check out Peter Cowie’s The Godfather: The Official Motion Picture Archives. Not only does the book detail the making of the films (with a primary focus on the 1972 original) via text and photos, there are...
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May 13, 2013May 13, 2013Books
Books: J. David Spurlock on The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage: Queen of Pin-Up Art
As the editor and publisher of Vanguard Productions, J. David Spurlock has overseen the release of a multitude of books over the course of his lifetime. Given that his own history is intertwined with those of dozens of past masters and living legends of illustration and comics, it’s little surprise that his imprint’s catalog features...
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April 7, 2013April 7, 2013Books
Comics: Nimue Brown on Hopeless, Maine: Personal Demons
Continuing my exploration of Archaia Entertainment’s roster of creators, I’d like to introduce you to Nimue Brown, co-creator with Tom Brown of Hopeless, Maine. As Tom revealed over the course of our conversation, Nimue has played a key role in bringing that haunted isle to life even as she supplied each of its diverse denizens...
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March 26, 2013November 10, 2025News
Comics: Cliff Galbraith Discusses the 2013 Asbury Park Comicon
I’ve known Cliff Galbraith for at least a decade. We first met at the Comic-Con International: San Diego, where I was walking the floor in search of interesting stories and he was hawking copies of his gloriously anarchic, highly entertaining comic Rat Bastard. We hit it off immediately, and enjoyed catching up at every show...
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February 17, 2013November 10, 2025News
Books: Tom Kaczynski on Uncivilized Books
As briefly mentioned at the end our previous conversation, the indefatigable Tom Kaczynski is more than a gifted comics creator. He’s also the publisher and driving force behind Uncivilized Books, an upstart press specializing in comics collections and original graphic novels. Now, if you happen to be a regular reader of this column and that...
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February 14, 2013November 10, 2025News
Books: Gary Scott Beatty on Tales of Fear
Gary Scott Beatty is someone whose work I’ve been following with real interest for the past few years. Not that I ignored him before that. Rather, it’s his recent activities, especially as a small press publisher with a singular vision that makes total sense in today’s fluid market, that’s proven to be particularly interesting. What...