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Harvey Pekar got pretty damn famous when the film adaptation of his autobiographical comic, American Splendor, was released to great acclaim in 2003. Since then hes had great success with the books, Our Movie Year and a new Best of American Splendor collection but youd never know it when you talk...

Hard Fi is one of the hottest UK bands right now. Their album Hard Fi is a best selling album over there right now and they are poised to do the same in American with their single and video of Cash Machine. The band is made up of Richard Archer, Ross Philips, Kai...

Ex Machina is the best superhero related book coming out on the market today. But it has a unique spin on the concept. Written and by Y: The Last Man co-creator, Brian K. Vaughan and penciled by Tony...

I remember the first time I saw Alice Cooper. It was some bizarre commercial on MTV. It was some janitor picking up an Alice Cooper album and commenting on how scary he was. Then he turned around and it was Alice yelling into the camera. I nearly shit myself and...

Bruce Eric Kaplan is best known as a writer on Seinfeld and an Emmy nominated writer/producer on Six Feet Under. In his spare moments he is also a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. He just completed his first narrative cartoon book, Every Person on the Planet: An Only Somewhat Anxiety-Filled Tale...

Todd McFarlane is one of the most popular and controversial comic book creators ever. He established his popularity in the late 80s drawing Marvel superhero books as The Incredible Hulk and The Amazing Spider-Man. Then in the early 1990s, in a uproarious and unprecedented...

Few bands in the last few years have made such on impact on rock music and music in general than The Strokes. Their first album, 2001s Is This It, set the bar very high in terms of sales and critical raves that it was inevitable that their sophomore...

Few would argue about the fact that Anthony Hopkins created one of the greatest villains in movie history with Hannibal Lecter. But since reprising that indelible role in the sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon, many have felt that Hopkins hasnt stretched himself. All that will change when...

We Are Scientists is made up of Keith Murray on guitar and lead vocals, Chris Cain bass guitarist and Michael Tapper drummer. Their latest album is With Love and Squalor put out by Virgin Records....

Justin Lin stunned the movie world with his independent hit Better Luck Tomorrow about overachieving Asian-American students who decide to start committing crimes....

Piper Perabo is the sexy young star of such films as Coyote Ugly, Slap Her... She's French and Lost and Delirious. Her latest flick is Imagine Me & You....

Gregory Crewdsons photographs have an immediate recognizable aesthetic. They are beautiful, eye catching and often times telling and depressing. His use of high contrast lighting and melancholy poses has made him a favorite of the art world and his work on the Six Feet Under campaign has given him...