Page 21 - Ec Comics News Today

Eww, That’s Gross. And We Like It That Way. Why the tasteless humor of “Bad Trip,” starring Eric Andre, is a feat to be celebrated. Few can pull off transgression so skillfully. Eric Andre, left, and Lil Rel Howery in a scene from “Bad Trip.”Credit...Netflix April 30, 2021 If the comedy “Bad Trip” had premiered in theaters as intended until it moved to Netflix because of the pandemic, one already notorious scene would have surely sent crowds into a frenzy of groans and laughter. I...

RIP Gary Leib, New York Filmmaker, Animator, And Cartoonist, 65 Gary Leib. (Photo courtesy of Northern Spy.) Multi-talented and creatively restless, Leib made waves in the music, comic, and animation worlds, often combining disciplines within one project. But whether he was creating artwork for the live-action feature American Ultra (2015) or animating a music video for his ambient-country band Suss, his humorous, generous, often absurdist worldview always shone through. Gary David Leib was bo...

Creepshow Moves Outside Its Comfort Zone with “The Right Snuff” The EC comics inspired horror anthology heads into outer space for the first time! Shudder Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), True Blood (2008-2014), Darlin’ (2019), and Creepshow Season 2, Episode 3: “The Right Snuff” Writers: Paul Dini, Stephen Langford, Greg Nicotero It’s an alternate 1960s, or maybe it’s the future, but what we do know is that the Ocula, a penis-shaped craft orbiting the Earth, is hom...

Activism doesn't need to focus on government.

Nicholas Burman , April 3rd, 2021 09:26 While Robert Crumb’s style and dedication to his generation’s underground comix artists has inspired a huge array of artists from a variety of backgrounds and of numerous identities, for decades his depictions and framing of women and his adoption of racist stereotypes have been under fire Crumb’s World, 2021. Photo by Alex Casto. Courtesy of David Zwirner Books In 2016 Fantagraphics, who have republished much of Crumb’s work, released a book abou...

The Stand. It should be no surprise that somebody with such a taste for the weird, wonderful and frequently out-there has a natural inclination to expand their creative horizons into other mediums; experimenting with the unique properties of different art forms and seeing what sticks. That’s very much the creative process behind Vincenzo’s debut album,  Origins, as he recently explained to me in a generously in-depth interview. Origins is a hypnotic, aural journey across ten tracks compos...

Unsettling Horror, Stylish Horror and Absurdist Humor, Now Available to Stream This week’s recommended streaming titles include Dementer, Tweet Jumbo We’re now more than a year into the pandemic, and the stress is really starting to show. Art is certainly having to work harder to retain attention. Edges which have been fraying for quite some time now are cracking and bleeding. There’s a feeling like somehow the gravity got turned up a notch, and it’...

The Future Imperfect: 5 Horror Movies Where Self-Improvement Goes Terribly Wrong G.G. Graham explores 5 horror movies where self-improvement went terribly wrong! By G.G. Graham It’s only human to want to be the best version of ourselves. Regardless if the goal is kicking a bad habit, finding love, or finally grabbing that promotion, there’s an entire cottage industry that promises to cure whatever ails us in a few simple steps....

[Photos by: Screamers/YouTube, The Runaways/YouTube, Germs/YouTube] Punk was, by design, meant to be small and regional. True, bands might break out and become national or even international. But the overarching idea was keeping things small and accessible. You wanted to be able to reach out and touch your favorite band in a small sweaty club, maybe have a beer with the members after. Mainstream ’70s rock had gotten so bloated, the “‘n’ roll” had fallen off the name, so it was no lon...

His taboo-breaking artwork was filled with sex, violence and savage humor, and inspired cartoonists including his friend Robert Crumb.