Cop Shoot Cop and the Poetics of Confrontation
“Do not accept what you can’t change,Change what you cannot accept.” — Cop Shoot Cop, “Chameleon...
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Category: ARTICLES
A Brief History of Alternative and Underground Manga
Manga’s Origins Japan has a long history of pictorial story telling – A famous early example...
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The Nudity of Death: On ‘Texas Serenade’ by The Gun Club
I have been criminally lucky that I’ve not lost many friends at this point in my life, but luck...
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What’s Up With The Comics Scene These Days?
Have you ever thought to yourself – What the fuck is going on with comics these days? Well...
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The Real Comics Underground – How Corporate Funded Comics Overshadow Real Underground Comics.
I am not a fan of the autobiographical comics movement. I think it was a major time-wasting...
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A Poustomangas In Melbourne: Re-Reading Christos Tsiolkas’s “Loaded”
“To be free, for me as a Greek, is to be a whore,” declares Ari, the chief protagonist and...
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The Most Dangerous Books on Earth: An Essay on Dangerous Ideas
What would you consider the most dangerous book you have ever read?Was it the atonal ultraviolence...
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Remembering The Bear: Weird Times With Augustus Owsley Stanley III
Sometimes your heroes don’t give good advice. It was 1998, I was 14 years old, and I had just...
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Nangs and Poppers: Thoughts On Legislating Household Inhalants Nitrous Oxide and Amyl Nitrate In Australia
Every high-school reprobate has heard of some home-remedy, DIY, MacGuyver-esque means of using...
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We Chat With Mark Sexton and John Petropoulos About How A Single Drug Reference Led To the Downfall Of Their T.I.S.M Comic Book, and AAARGH! Comics Publishing Empire.
Comics were HUGE in the 1990’s, so huge in fact that much loved Australian anarchic-alternative...
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The System is Failing – Michael Alan’s Thoughts on Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’.
Michael AlanOctober 8th, 2019. ‘Joker’ feels, breathes, and looks like New York City...
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KAWS – Worth More Than His Weight in Gold. BUY NOW!?
In late 2018 veritable art-as-objects-of-financial-capital website ArtNet launched their...
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