Michael Kane on Game Boys

When Michael Kane’s book, Game Boys: Professional Videogaming’s Rise from the Basement to the Big Time, entered my radar, I was lucky enough to get in contact with Kane and interview him via email. My thanks to Shannon Twomey of Viking for facilitating this interview. Here isa snippet of the publisher’s description of the book: [...]

Ivan Brunetti on An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2

This week, I am trying to give a Christmas present to my readers by posting more interviews than the average of one a week. Today’s interview is with Ivan Brunetti, editor of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: Volume 2. As detailed at Yale University Press: “Comic art is a vital, highly [...]

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival: Eisner Documentary

The 2009/Ninth Annual Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is scheduled to run from January 14-25, 2009. In fact, tickets went on sale earlier this month on December 9. And just to give folks a little taste of what’s on the horizon, festival organizers were kind enough to let me watch a few of the films to [...]

Christopher B with Series Two Records

Series Two Records is clearly a labor of love for Christopher B. I first found out about Series Two from friend of the blog, Shelby Miller, the creative force behind Shifted Sound. According to the site: “Series Two Records works with releasing some of the best Swedish indie pop and shoegaze bands as well as [...]

Haspiel Writing for NYT on Drinking

Dean Haspiel is a friend of this blog. I always love to  interview Dean, as evidenced by this interview from a few months back in September. Back during that interview I admired the number of projects/websites that Haspiel had. But clearly, he’s looking to usurp Warren Ellis as the king of the Internet. And he’s really elevated [...]