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Space in the Imagination: How Comic Books Envisioned the Moon Landing
Post date:By the 1950s, America was ready for space travel. Before anyone took the leap though, comic books, film and television were predicting humankind’s forays into the outer limits. Get a glimpse of yesteryear's ideas of space travel.
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KCET Cinema Series
Comic to Movie: Daniel Clowes Comics On-Screen
Post date:A superstar in the comics world, Oakland-based Clowes has had a prolific career that began in the latter half of the 1980s with the comic "Lloyd Llewelyn" before the launch of his career-defining series "Eightball."
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Chicano-Con Is San Diego's Latino-Focused Comic-Con
Post date:Comic-Con, the massive geek gathering, has separated itself from the residents of surrounding neighborhoods like Barrio Logan. With Chicano-Con, David Favela and his friends worked to create their own convention -- one that encompassed the rich Mexican...
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Jim Mahfood: Frenetic Illustrations and Cosmic Comic Books
Post date:Jim Mahfood (a.k.a. Food One) is a busy guy, working non-stop -- in illustration, comics, murals, painting, photography, music, and animation.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Of Rabbits and Ronin: The Charismatic Characters of Stan Sakai's Comic Books
Post date:Japanese American artist and writer, Stan Sakai draws on the multi-cultural artistic nexus that is Los Angeles, creating characters, settings and imagery that are Japanese, but whose lettering and narrative style originate mostly in the West.
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district 13
Food
Midnight Snack: District 13 with Jim Higgins
Post date:Learning the different steps of creating comic books whilst sampling exotic-meat sausages with the Meltdown University professor.
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Visual Arts
Youth Voices
L.A. Strips
Post date:Over the years, Los Angeles has developed a noteworthy collective of comic book creators.