WHERE: Gallery1988 (East) 7021 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038 OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 17, 7:00PM – 9:00PM HOURS: Wednesday to Sunday: 11am-6pm Monday to Tuesday: Closed This Friday, our friend and occasional co-conspirator Matt Skiff is having is having his very own solo art show at G1988 (East)! Entitled “Best Friends,” the show is […]
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The Art of Regular Show [Review]
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Released earlier this month by Titan Books, The Art of Regular Show is a large format (11.4” x 8.9”) 160 page collection of animation stills, sketches, storyboards, and commentaries that chronicles how the show originated and the eccentric cast that inhabit it. Beginning with a series of short films creator JQ Quintel produced during his […]
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First appearing in 1978, Jim Davis’s Garfield, about an orange gluttonous cat that hates Mondays and loves Lasagna, is something of a pop culture icon. In fact, that’s a complete understatement when you consider how much profit one single item of his merchandise raked in during the eighties. I speak, of course, of the Garfield […]
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Like that holiday where we lure a strange bearded man into our homes with milk and cookies in the hopes he leaves us material goods, Halloween is used as a set piece for most of our favorite cartoon shows of yesteryear. Occasionally, these offbeat cartoon specials can fall behind the desk we call “adult life,” […]
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WHERE: Hero Complex Gallery 2020 South Robertson Blvd., Studio D Los Angeles, CA 90034 HOURS: Thursday – Sunday from 11am to 6pm The official Popeye tribute show—Strong To The Finich!—opened in LA’s Hero Complex Gallery last week (Sep. 5), celebrating the character’s 85th birthday. The show features work from over 100 artists from around the […]
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In 2004, Justice League was coming to an unofficial end, the intended series finale “Star Crossed” which found the team battling Hawkgirl’s native people (Thanagarians). Shockingly, Cartoon Network and Warner decided to revive the series with a successful reboot (and new theme song), branding it Justice League: Unlimited. The new series picked up right after […]
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I had a few major loves as a child. These infatuations consisted of Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe and The Ghostbusters. My toy box overflowed in a great abundance of toys from these lineups. In my younger years, though, Ghostbusters was my “main crush” (so to say) and the others were late night […]
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“And then from the field of the future, a new king will come… to save the world of the past!” One of the best memories I have growing up was that every morning before school, I’d turn on Channel 9 here in NY, and watch cartoons before school. Yes, they played cartoons before school, on […]
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This is by far one of my favorite cartoon series of all time. I am indeed a Turtles fan and grew up with the 80’s version of the series, but it wasn’t until I watched its 2003 reboot that the world of the TMNT made a lot more sense to me. What was funny, for […]