John Seven’s 10 Favorite Comics of 2015
1. Fatherland: A Family History by Nina Bunjevac (Liveright) This dysfunctional family memoir that involves a plot to bring down the Serbian government is harrowing…
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Scott Von Doviak’s Top 10 Movies of 2015
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The Night Listener And Others by Chet Williamson
Long Red Hair by Meags Fitzgerald
The Hunter by Joe Sparrow
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See You Next Tuesday by Jane Mai
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Up Down Clown by Whit Taylor
The sad clown is a trope that has been well-used in every storytelling media there is, but Whit Taylor’s Up Down Clown (Amazon) from Ninth Art…
The Institute
The 2013 film The Institute (Amazon, iTunes) is one of those rarest of documentaries that manages to replicate the experience it portrays in such a…
The Great Fantastic Journey Rewatch: Vortex Part 2
Previously on The Fantastic Journey: Ike Eisenmann (as Scott) was traveling with his father (Dr. Paul Jordan) and a motley gang of 1970s scientists on…
Fedor by Patt Kelley
This tender tale from Hic & Hoc takes the life of famed sideshow star Jo Jo The Dog Faced Boy into romantic fantasy realm as it…
Foreign TV Alert: Jordskott
The Scandinavian police procedural has become a staple in 21st Century television, but the latest from Sweden, Jordskott, takes the genre far beyond what we…
Orion: The Man Who Would Be King
I can remember at the age of 14 encountering the records featuring the glittery masked man on the cover. I didn’t really understand what the…
The Great Fantastic Journey Rewatch: Vortex Part 1
Prologue: The Journey Begins Let’s travel in time, shall we? It’s the first weekend of February 1977 in Middleboro, Massachusetts, and the 10-year-old-version of me…
Cool French Music That You Should Know About
The Liminanas Mustang Bernard Adamus Stereo Total Mellino Babylon Circus Julie B. Bonnie Archimede Watcha Clan We Are Enfant Terrible Dimie Cat Nouvelle Vague Lady…
A Visit to Bizarro Con 2015
It was sometime after the man in the mushroom cap sang a song about earwigs yet well before Werner Herzog’s nihilistic re-imagining of “The Wizard…
Vampire Cousins by Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Cathon
This cute and breezy story from French creators Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau and Cathon finds Camillia visiting her cousin Frédérique in a creaky old manor that…
mini kuš! #37
One of the delights of mini kuš! is that you never truly know what’s coming next. Issue to issue, the stories and artists highlighted constitute a…