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  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    John Severin, comics giant, enters another dimension

    Legendary illustrator John Powers Severin, whose 60-year career in the comics world stretched from the dawning of MAD magazine to the Silver Age at Marvel to a gay revival of the Rawhide Kid and beyond, died over the weekend at his southeast Denver home. He was 90 years old. "Truly the art world h ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 19, 2010

    Tireless satire: For Tomfoolery, don't leave your brain at home

    Legendary illustrator John Powers Severin, whose 60-year career in the comics world stretched from the dawning of MAD magazine to the Silver Age at Marvel to a gay revival of the Rawhide Kid and beyond, died over the weekend at his southeast Denver home. He was 90 years old. "Truly the art world h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Ten albums that give Weezer's ridiculous new album-cover art for Hurley a run for its money

    ​Over the past decade, Weezer has become more and more ridiculous, from its songwriting to its performances (Kenny G, seriously?). And now you can add its album cover art to the running tally of ridiculousness: See the snapshot Jorge Garcia here, the actor who played Hurley on Lost? This is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    PETA's ten-worst publicity stunts -- until the chicken

    ​The City of Denver will decide today whether PETA can install a 250-pound, bloody and butchered chicken sculpture -- dubbed "McCruelty," but really looking like a worse-for-the-wear Foghorn Leghorn -- on the 16th Street Mall. This isn't PETA's first stunt, of course. Last year, Jason Sheeh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    RIP Frank Frazetta: A look at his ten most striking cover illustrations

    ​ Yesterday the art world bid farewell to one of its most badass and cryptic members when Frank Frazetta died of a stroke at the age of 82. His dark and often gruesome work will be missed. His comic artwork alone contributed to many of our own doodles of death-dealing knights and broadsword-w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Balloon Boy goes mad -- as in Mad Magazine

    The Heenes go "Mad" (click to enlarge).​Months after the ill-fated flight of Richard Heene's "experimental craft," the Balloon Boy saga remains almost as fresh in the nation's consciousness as the vomit that spewed from young Falcon Heene live on the Today show last November. For proof, look ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2010

    Denver cartoonists are inking big

    The Heenes go "Mad" (click to enlarge).​Months after the ill-fated flight of Richard Heene's "experimental craft," the Balloon Boy saga remains almost as fresh in the nation's consciousness as the vomit that spewed from young Falcon Heene live on the Today show last November. For proof, look ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 22, 2009

    Now Showing

    The Heenes go "Mad" (click to enlarge).​Months after the ill-fated flight of Richard Heene's "experimental craft," the Balloon Boy saga remains almost as fresh in the nation's consciousness as the vomit that spewed from young Falcon Heene live on the Today show last November. For proof, look ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    PETA's ten worst -- actually, make that best -- publicity stunts

    Kiernan MaletskyPETA -- the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- is a lot of things.  It is a political organization dedicated to saving all the cute critters on the planet.  It is a finely-tuned donation-gathering machine that preys on weepy liberals who'd rather empty thei ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 22, 2009

    Thou Art in Heaven

    When it comes to Art Spiegelman, we’re not worthy!

  • News

    February 28, 2008

    A Question of Raza

    Who do Hispanics favor in 2008?

  • Film

    December 20, 2007

    Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

    Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox.

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2007

    E.C. Come, E.C. Go

    Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox.

  • Culture

    February 22, 2007

    (New) Disasters of War

    Simon Zalkind presents a timely group show based on Goya’s work.

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Play Bawl!

    Who's ready for some Fantasy Congress?

  • Culture

    February 12, 2004

    Political Cartoons

    African-American art is up at DU, while Mizel surveys the Jewish roots of the comics.

  • Film

    July 30, 1998

    A Star Is Borin'

    African-American art is up at DU, while Mizel surveys the Jewish roots of the comics.

  • News

    May 15, 1997

    The Big Queasy

    The junk-food guinea pigs of Grand Junction have had some strange gut reactions to olestra.

  • News

    August 8, 1996

    Off Limits

    The junk-food guinea pigs of Grand Junction have had some strange gut reactions to olestra.

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