Mystery Hoard

 by BK Munn I recently had the pleasure of watching Blast of Silence , the brutal, existential 1961 film noir written and directed by and st...

Records (2021), directed by Alan Zweig. review by BK Munn Sometimes a film just speaks to you, you know? Records is Alan Zweig’s sequel and ...

50 years ago today, the first appearance of Funky Flashman. Funky was Jack Kirby's thinly-veiled parody of his old boss Stan Lee. Kirby ...

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021), directed by Will Sharpe. An Emotional Portrait of the Superstar Cartoonist by BK Munn There aren...

by BK Munn So by popular demand, here’s my list of the Best Albums of 1986! Of course, I think they are objectively the best as well as bein...

 

Some CAR-toons by Doug Wright, from Star Weekly magazine, Sept 30, 1967. The mechanical-minded cartoonist Doug Wright was a natural when it ...

There is Free Comic Book Day, there is Local Comic Shop Day, and there is Record Store Day , and never the three shall meet! Except! Every o...

"According to Jack Kirby: Insights drawn from interviews with comics' greatest creator" by Michael Hill Lulu Books 2021 ISBN 9...

by BK Munn I've seen some press for an upcoming repackaging of Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four #1, the comic book that arguably launched...

LON CHANEY SPEAKS BY PAT DORIAN (PENGUIN) review by BK Munn From "Lon Chaney Speaks" by Pat Dorian, a more-or-less straight bio of...

by BK Munn Comics in Film: Smithereens (1982).  Billy reads a copy of Robert Crumb's Despair while his romantically-linked bedmates, man...

The greatest novelty publishing format mixes two of my favourite things: comics and records. There was a brief vogue for including flexi-dis...

Capital and Labor by Rev. W.S. Harris, with illustrations by Paul Krafft. This 300-page manifesto from 1907 is written from the point-of-vie...