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Mike Reiss is living the American dream. After being a highly successful writer on The Simpsons since the 80s, he was able to parlay that experience into creating Queer Duck. Originally Queer Duck was a series of short cartoons for Showtime. But for the first time Queer Duck has become a full length...

Dan Mazer is the perfect example of immigrants coming over to America and taking our jobs. He was doing perfectly well over in the UK as co-creator of Ali G and various other characters with Sacha Baron Cohen. In fact hes even got another movie coming out in theatres soon called Borat based on an...

It was a real treat and a pleasure to get to talk to living legend Alan Arkin. I told a number of people that I was going to talk to the Oscar nominated improv guru and they said either You got to ask him about Glengarry Glen Ross. I was like Fuck that Im going to talk to him about Bad Medicine!...

At the kick-off of this past Memorial Day weekend, while most of you were beginning your three-day BBQ bender of luke-warm beer, hot dogs and Pepto-Bismol, Brooklyn based band Dub Trio took the stage on Late Night with Conan OBrien. Alongside Mike Patton, Rhazel and Dan the Automator, they delivered...

Rudy Ray Moore is Dolemite. When those five words came across movie screens back in 1975 it made history. Film history, black history, everyones history! Dolemite was a seminal film in the blaxploitation genre because it was one of the first films in the genre to actually...

Few women have done sexually charged works that made an impression on both men and womens psyches. Tura Satanas look and work, especially in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, is right up there with Bettie Page, Dixie Evans and Brigitte Bardot. Satana is a woman that took all the shit shes gone through...

The era of the working comedian is in full force. After standup got so popular in the 70s and 80s, most comedians were leaving the stage to create their own movies and television shows, very often never coming back. Nowadays many comedians want to create their own TV shows and movies but dont get...

Ben Edlund is a comedy genius. I first discovered his comic book, The Tick, when New England Comics put in one of their ads A combination of The Punisher and Wolverine! I was pulled in by this gimmick only to find that The Tick had more in common with Bob Burdens Flaming Carrot and Sergio Aragons...

Eighteen Visions is made up of James Hart, Ken Floyd, Keith Barney, Mick Morris and Trevor Baby. Their latest work is a self titled album and I got a chance to talk with Hart about its creation and their upcoming tour....

Ben Edlund is a comedy genius. I first discovered his comic book, The Tick, when New England Comics put in one of their ads A combination of The Punisher and Wolverine! I was pulled in by this gimmick only to find that The Tick had more in common with Bob Burdens Flaming Carrot and Sergio Aragons...

Linda Medley may have grown up in rural California but that didnt stop her from reading comics. She grew up reading such kiddie books as Richie Rich but then later she became obsessed with the X-Men. She attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and...

Page Hamilton is the brainchild behind the heavy wall of sound New York band Helmet. Helmet has been pounding our skulls with their unique brand of music since the early 90s. For a while Helmet had been broken up but they reunited for their 2004 album. But since...