"The Many Faces of Disgust"  | February 1999 | View text-only PDF (24 KB) |
A review of the great monster- maker flipbook by Charles Burns and Gary Panter.

"Marvelously Tooned"  | December 1997 | View text-only PDF (14 KB) |
My piece on the very funny Coober Skeeber comic anthology, in which alt-comix creators
reimagined and repurposed classic tights-wearing superheroes.

"Addicted to Your Noise" | December 1996 | View archived Web page (9 KB) |
An extended caption on Scanner, the British sound artist who live-mixes snippets captured
from the airwaves.

"Americana Noir" | January 1996  | View PDF (24 KB) |
Reviewing "Our Secret Century," a CD-Rom (remember those?) from Voyager Interactive (remember them?).

"Hell on Wheels" | October 1996 | View text-only PDF (25 KB) |
A review of the zine "RollerDerby," by Lisa Carver, AKA Lisa Suckdog, who I described as "Hunter
Thompson in a miniskirt." Except that Hunter never had a kid with a reported white supremacist.

"Robotic Charm" | April 1996 | View text-only PDF (18 KB) |
A hosanna for the American-Asian culture zine Giant Robot, now a full-fledge hipster empire: See
www.giantrobot.com, for mag subscriptions and a very cool selection of books, zines, toys and discs.

"Double Vision" | April 1996 | View text-only PDF (24 KB) |
My review of DoubleTake, the great magazine that long skated perilously along the brink of extinction.
As I write this, they're dead, but who knows? It's both the Zenith and Nazareth of magazines.

"Striking a Nerve" | June 1996 | View text-only PDF (23 KB) |
Reviewing prodigy California cartoonist Adrian Tomine's "32 stories" - a compilation of his early work.
Tomine's a frequent illustrator for the New Yorker now, and his Optic Nerve series still going strong.

"News by Numbers"  | June 1995 | View archived Web page (10 KB) |
A very brief piece on Andrew Tyndall, a man obsessed with tracking how
much coverage the major American TV networks give each news story.

"Graphic Mystery" | April 1995 | View text-only PDF (25 KB) |
Reviews David Mazzucchelli's wonderful graphic adaptation of Paul Auster's stunning
"City of Glass," one of the definitive New York City novels.

"Kitsch Kritic" | July 21, 2002 | View text-only PDF (19 KB) |
My piece on Beer Frame, the Journal of Conspicuous Consumption, product of Paul Lukas' estimably maverick mind.