Rest in power, Tatsuya Nakadai 💙 We love Nakadai in all of the Kurosawa and Kobayashi's films, and thinking of Kobayashi, it's difficult at this sad moment to not want to watch Harakiri just for his performance.

ANGOULÊME 2026 in serious doubt as publishers and authors cancel to protest Bondoux's involvement

So glad that the Knoxville Museum of Art has finally dedicated a room to the work of the Knoxville Seven: Kermit Ewing, Carl Sublett, Walter Stevens, Robert Birdwell, Joanne Higgs, Richard Clarke, and Phillip Nichols! Brilliant abstract expressionism.

This is the last weekend of the exhibit at the Knoxville Museum of Art that celebrates the legacy of Alfred and Jane West Clauss, and we must take this moment to say how much we've always admired these wartime posters that Alfred created!

We just got our copy of CANON #6 and we have already devoured it! Yum! It includes our conversation with the wonderful David Tea, as well as interviews Patrick Keck, Paige Hender, Donald Rex, and much more! ##Altcomics

"If this almost three-hour experience from Jude seems too overwhelming, it should. Dracula is as bombastic of an experience as the equally polarizing 2019 masterwork from Albert Serra, Liberté." -- Lily and Generoso Fierro

If you missed this year's Short Run Comics Festival like we did (wow, it looked packed in a good way), you can experience it through @fourcolorryan.bsky.social's superb writings and photos! #Altcomics www.patreon.com/posts/scene-...

Just published on @ink19.bsky.social is our review of director Radu Jude's frenetic three hour tribute to all things Dracul and Vlad the Impaler, Dracula! You may have heard things about it, and it's not like that. Actually it is like that, but we love it! #RaduJude ink19.com/2025/11/maga...

Put the pencils down for an hour late last night to dig into the new Comics Blogger #14, and we're happy to report that it's chock full of comics reading goodness! Get your own... #Altcomics www.comicsblogger.net/product/comi...

"For us, no fall is complete without reviewing the wildly eclectic offerings of the American Film Institute’s five-day festival that annually takes over the TCL Chinese Theatres on Hollywood Boulevard." -- Lily and Generoso Fierro

Just up on @ink19.bsky.social is our piece on this year's AFI Fest in L.A.! We caught seventeen features over the five-day fest, and here we review our eight favorites, including new releases by Alejo Moguillansky, Radu Jude, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and Hong Sangsoo! ink19.com/2025/11/maga...

It was fifty years ago today when Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. In his honor, we want to repost our 2019 @ink19.bsky.social review of Abel Ferrara's intimate portrait of Pasolini's final days. ink19.com/2019/05/maga...

Rest in peace to the brilliant UK filmmaker, Peter Watkins 💙 If you've not seen The War Game (1966) and Punishment Park (1971), please do! They are as relevant now as they were when they were made! Also, his film on Edvard Munch is essential. A work which Bergman called genius! youtu.be/qFvU9z-B9vQ

Los Angeles friends! On Wed. 11/12 and Thurs. 11/13, you can catch a double feature on 35mm @newbeverly.bsky.social of two of the finest films by one of our favorite directors of the 1980s, Bill Forsyth! #BillForsyth

Fellow Philadelphian Comics Creators and Cultural Organizers! Apply for this grant from The Velocity Fund! Deadline is in two weeks! #Altcomics velocityfund.org/apply/

Happy 87th Birthday, @ralphbakshi.bsky.social! Endless thanks to you for all of the inspiration!

CANON #6 IS OUT, and it is packed with new reviews and interviews, including our in-depth conversation with one of our favorite comics creators, David Tea! Pick it up!!! ##Altcomics canonzine.bigcartel.com/product/cano...

Now Playing on 22 Panels: A conversation with Matt Madden His new book Six Treasures of the Spiral is in stores November 19. 22panelspodcast.blogspot.com/2024/11/GP-M...

That stopped being a baseball game two hours ago! That was brutal. Hats off to the Jays! Congrats to the Dodgers!

Rest in power, Mr. DeJohnette 💙 We love Jack's work with Miles, especially on Bitches Brew and On the Corner, and on Wayne Shorter's Super Nova album. A great band leader who transformed the drums. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv9P...

For your Sunday evening's entertainment, the folks at Le Cinéma Club have posted Dog's Dialogue (Colloque de chiens), a complex and stunning short film from 1977 by the wonderful Chilean director Raúl Ruiz (Genealogies of a Crime, Time Regained)! Enjoy! #RaúlRuiz www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

Good news for Kuš! readers in the US. Next week we'll be able to ship books again. You can get your Kuš! again as usual at komikss.lv

Los Angeles friends! We loved our conversation with director Alejo Moguillansky for @ink19.bsky.social about his terrific new feature, Pin de Fartie! The film screens at AFI Fest today, Thurs. Oct. 23rd at 11:45am with Alejo in attendance! Don't miss it!

We enjoy Darya Foroohar's comics and we ripped through her newest, Homicidal Ideation, the weekend we picked up when we tabling at SPX! On Tuesday, @fourcolorryan.bsky.social wrote a review the book and you should read it because he writes well and stuff! #Altcomics www.patreon.com/posts/comic-...

We're very excited for next week's NY Comics Symposium! John A Crespi, a Professor of Chinese at Colgate University, is speaking on 20th Century Chinese cartoon and comics publications from Shanghai Jazz Age to Mao satires! Free to attend virtually! nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/j...

An utterly fascinating read on @comicsjournal.bsky.social to share in the form of an in-depth interview with exiled artist Vika Lomasko conducted by Zach Rabiroff! Excellent piece! www.tcj.com/vika-lomasko...

Published today on @ink19.bsky.social is our conversation with filmmaker and co-founder of El Pampero Cine, Alejo Moguillansky, whose virtuosic new feature, Pin de Fartie, screens AFI FEST in LA this Thursday and Saturday with Moguillansky in person! #AFIFest2025 ink19.com/2025/10/maga...

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Portland! Saturday I’ll be at Frankenstein’s Comic Book Swap with the legendary Greg Petix, selling the fruits of our years of collecting at Lloyd Center Mall. I’ll also have a small selection of my self published comics as well as my Hot Sauce T-shirts and a secret limited edition shirt!

Many thanks to the grand human that is Thomas Campbell/ @comicsblogger.bsky.social who shot this 35mm photo of us after the final day of tabling our comics at this year's @smallpressexpo.bsky.social! Also, grab an issue of Comics Blogger! An essential zine on new indie comics! www.comicsblogger.net

Terrific list from the BFI for your Halloween viewing! 11 great French horror films 📽️ The Devil’s Castle (1896) Un chien andalou (1929) Orphée (1950) Eyes Without a Face (1960) The Grapes of Death (1978) Litan (1982) Baby Blood (1990) In My Skin (2002) Inside (2007) Martyrs (2008) Raw (2016)

If you missed last night's NY Comics Symposium, you missed a fascinating presentation from art historian, academic researcher, and exhibition curator Erwin Dejasse on Art Brut's impact on comics! Loved the post lecture discussion as well! Up now on YouTube! #Altcomics youtu.be/TLBgcfcy1po?...

It's a little past midnight, which means it's the birthday of my partner in crime in all things comics, music, cinema, and life! Happy birthday to my dearest Generoso! May there be many more cakes under the stars!! 💖

This Sunday, after 55 years, Dr. Demento will air his final radio show! He introduced me to The Ramones, The Cramps, and DEVO by playing their silliest cuts and every comedian from Carlin to Rodney to Steve Martin to Tom Lehrer to Weird Al. Thanks for the laughs, Doctor! ttps://www.drdemento.com

The Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award gives up to $2,500 of support to a researcher (US citizens or permanent residents only) who needs to travel to Columbus, Ohio to use the collections of the @cartoonlibrary.bsky.social/Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum! cartoons.osu.edu/collections-...

Much love, respect, and thanks to all of the folks who put together this year's Nashville Comic Arts Festival! We had too many fantastic conversations with attendees, creators, and organizers to list here! You all set a standard. Cheers!

Rest in power to the brilliant experimental filmmaker, Ken Jacobs 💙 Love his use of found footage, especially Blonde Cobra! His work with John Zorn is also essential. Thank you, sir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQqc...

Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, I (Generoso) played the crap out of this album whenever I subbed on Breakfast of Champions on WMBR. I said it then as I do now, this is an elegant masterpiece of a record. Thank you, Mr. Blunstone, Argent, and White. youtu.be/nn64-LTEV4k?...

Last night, post tabling at the wonderful Nashville Comic Arts Festival, Lily continued her comic con tradition of interfacing with a Sichuan horse. Traditions...

Spent lunch with needle and thread covering up a corporate label with a patch of jazz excellence!

Happy 75th Anniversary, Peanuts! Thank you forever, Mr. Schulz!

We're thrilled that AFI FEST Guest Artistic Director Guillermo del Toro programmed Fellini's Casanova for this year's festival! Love that film! Here is Generoso at Cinecittà a few years back proudly posing with "the head."

It is astounding the level of tension and social commentary that Lucrecia Martel (Zama, La niña santa) delivers in just 12 mins! Martel's amazing 2022 short film, MAID, is this week's Le Cinéma Club offering! Free to watch! #LucreciaMartel #ArgentineCinema www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

Riposa in pace, Signora Cardinale 💙 Considering the grand films she starred in from 8½ to Il Gattopardo to Fitzcarraldo, it's odd that we're thinking of her work in Comencini's La ragazza di Bube right now, but even in that modest sad film she gives it her all and her all was epic! Grazie, Claudia!

We've been working on the new comic late into the wee hours every night for the last couple of months, but this weekend, Lily carved out some time to build and paint a birdhouse dedicated to the late David Thomas of Pere Ubu who passed back in April. The birdies are singing!

We had a grand time @smallpressexpo.bsky.social and in DC last weekend! Got to town early to hit the National Gallery and the Hirshhorn (finally saw Bradford's Pickett's Charge)! Met awesome creators at SPX, and we were thrilled to see Julia Gfrörer win the Ignatz for Outstanding Collection!

Caught a fabulous screening tonight of Kubrick's finest film, and the theater manager matched our enthusiasm by giving us this groovy sticker, which we'll cherish forever! For real. That was really sweet!

Up this week on Le Cinéma Club is director Gelare Khoshgozaran’s eloquent short film meditation on exile, The Retreat! Stunning work! www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

LA Friends! We've been enjoying J. Hoberman's reviews and books for over four decades! Don't miss his appearance/book release @2220arts.bsky.social next Thursday, 9/25, which also features a stunning program of short films from Ron Rice, Jud Yalkut, Ken Jacobs, and Michael Snow! #avantfilm