I can’t remember where I first read about this brilliant and unique piece of stop-motion, but as soon as I did, I ran up to Scarecrow Video. A little search assisted by the gal behind the counter yielded a slightly-trashed VHS copy, which required a $500 deposit. Yikes! I anxiously brought it home and …
Max Hattler is unique and awesome. I hope he moves further in this direction. “1925 aka Hell is one of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage (1876-1954). 1925 is based on Lesage’s painting A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World from 1925, below. The …
I’m 8 years old, spending the night at my friend Donnie’s house. Its about 1 in the morning. ‘My dad has a weird radio. You have to hear it.’ We sneak up to the living room of the house, and turn an enormous knob two clicks to the right, from ‘aux’ to ‘sw’. Gonk. Gonk. …
James Kochalka is a comic book artist from Vermont. He’s been drawing an autobiography in comic form one day at a time, every day, since the late 90s. Every DAY, people. Rain, shine, drunk, sick, on vacation, in the hospital with a delivering wife, etc. They are mostly haiku-ish tiny glimpses of life, but …