WATCHMEN!
On this, the first week of March 2009, a pop culture phenomenon is sweeping the U.S. that for once actually has some worth. It’s the movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s legendary WATCHMEN
Surrealism in Collage: The Novels of Max Ernst
Max Ernst was one of the most famous of the original surrealists, and his supreme masterworks are the collage novels THE HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN, A LITTLE GIRL DREAMS OF TAKING THE VEIL and A WEEK OF KINDNESS
THE PUMA BLUES
This avant-garde comic saga was for much of its existence the most elusive entry in the comic book renaissance of the 1980s
PIGEONS FROM HELL
Justifiably well known though the late Robert E. Howard is for his heroic fantasy tales (of Conan, Kull and other larger-than-life heroes), few people know that Howard also left behind a handful of extremely accomplished horror stories
PANORAMA OF HELL
A pitiless vision of Hell on Earth, manga style!
ROBOCOP VERSUS THE TERMINATOR
ROBOCOP VERSUS THE TERMINATOR, which as the title indicates brings together the universes of ROBOCOP and THE TERMINATOR, has been called “The Greatest Crossover of all Time.” I don’t agree
RIPPLE
A graphic novel that may not be horrific enough for my readers, yet will almost certainly be too freaky and aberrant for the mainstream
REGISTRY OF DEATH
Some seriously freaky shit, this, an oddly repellant and disturbing graphic novel
THE WOLF
From Los Angeles based artist Tom Neely, a most unique and fascinating “painted novel” that operates on the same level as an especially weird David Lynch movie
THE WHITE LAMA
Here we have further proof that the Chilean writer/filmmaker Alexandro (or Alejandro) Jodorowsky is one of most magnificently brain-fried geniuses alive