The Funnies
Charles Burns does Tintin Dean Haspiel‘s Next-Door Neighbor: “Everybody has one. And, no matter how close or how far, we all live next to someone, and we all have a Next-Door Neighbor story. With this in mind, I asked some of my favorite storytellers and cartoonists to create their favorite NDN stories so that we […]
stick ’em up punks, it’s the fun lovin’ criminals
While Hewlett went on to consort with Brit-pop royalty–a strip for Pulp’s ‘Common People’–writer Alan Martin beat a retreat to the Scottish Borders via a hippie commune, and Tank Girl’s reigns were handed over first to Peter Milligan, then to Alan Grant. But the C86-ers had moved on: a female “Mad Max designed by Vivienne Westwood” didn’t cut it anymore, Tank Girl was no longer a wet-dream for the “start-rite teenagers / spotty greebos / cardigan clad Smiths fans / psychedilic shoegazers / and tiny bowl-cut angels”, instead they were besotted with another gun-totten, big-titted girl.
Susan Tomaselli ponders the return of Tank Girl as novel.
Offbeat TV V
Matthew Coleman reads from his novella Her Naked Self, an extract from which can also be found in 3:AM London, New York, Paris: Further: The Offbeat Generation / The Offbeat Generation Film Channel / Matthew Coleman reads ‘Dream Poem’ / Heidi James reads two pieces / Adelle Stripe reads 3 poems / Ben Myers reads […]