DAVID GREENBERGER: BEYOND DUPLEX PLANET
What began in 1979 for David Greenberger as a D.I.Y. newsletter for the residents at a Boston nursing home became, over the decades, an international oasis called Duplex Planet. Intelligent life on...
View ArticleMADE IN THE UK: PHOTOGRAPHER JANETTE BECKMAN
After documenting the punk and post-punk scenes in the UK, Janette Beckman moved to New York in time to shoot the burgeoning rap and hip hop scenes, as well as gang life in East L.A. Amy Haben caught...
View ArticleRON TURNER’S LAST GASP: WEIRD & WONDERFUL COMIX SINCE 1970
Ron Turner may be the last (gasp) of the original underground comics publishers still going strong. His Last Gasp imprint, established in San Francisco in 1970, has published a Who’s Who of 1960s’...
View ArticleJEAN COCTEAU: THE POET AS PROPHET
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was the original boundary pusher. No creative urge was safe from his efforts. He was many things—a poet, playwright, artist, clothes and set designer, choreographer, filmmaker,...
View ArticleJOHN LURIE AND THE HISTORY OF BONES
Writer, musician, actor and artist John Lurie is at the center of many indelible images from a certain time and place in NYC’s music and film history: fronting his band the Lounge Lizards, Jim...
View ArticleUTOPIA PARKWAY: THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF JOSEPH CORNELL
Artist, filmmaker and writer Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was a mystery when he was alive and continues to mystify fifty years after his death. Best known as the “box artist,” he made assemblages that...
View ArticleDENIS KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL: UNDERGROUND COMIX PIONEER KEEPS ON TRUCKIN’
By Alan Bisbort Denis Kitchen is, in my view, the Stan Lee of underground comix. While Lee’s Marvel Comics was cranking out Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Doctor Strange, et al, Kitchen—at his...
View ArticlePLEASE READ ME: THE BEST OF 2021, PART I
Put another log on the fire, top that tankard of coffee, tea and/or antibiotics, and kick back with Please Kill Me’s Top 20 stories of 2021. We offer here the 20 most visited stories on our website for...
View ArticleFINNISH AVANT-GARDIST KEUHKOT IS CONTINUING THE UNIVERSE
Keuhkot is, as Jordan N. Mamone suggests, “the world’s only one-man avant-garde Finnish vaudeville act.” “Keuhkot” is the stage name of Kake Puhuu, born Kalevi Rainio; the word means “Lungs,” and man...
View ArticleGREG IRONS: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Greg Irons sampled every conceivable creative outlet the 1960s counterculture had to offer—first as a rock musician in Philadelphia (The Candymen), then as a Bay Area rock poster artist (Bill Graham...
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