Author Archives: R. Fiore
Freeway to UPA
Freeway by Mark Kalesniko (Fantagraphics) UPA: The Jolly Frolics Collection (TCM) The eponymous metaphor of Matt Kalesniko’s Freeway is almost too easy: A transportation network that once granted free and effortless mobility that’s become a morass of stagnation and frustration … Continue reading
A Long Strange Trip, If You’ll Pardon the Expression
The Someday Funnies now joins Smile, From Arrgh to Zap, and a complete version of Metropolis on the list of Things That Have Come Out Before The Last Dangerous Visions. Continue reading
Theater of the Inaccessible Presents: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec!
Hollywood released two, three and sometimes four movies that were not as good as Adele Blanc-Sec every week of the year and change since it came out. Continue reading
Some Girls Work in Factories, Some Girls Work in Stores
R. Fiore on Chester Brown’s Paying for It. Continue reading
Easy Winners
Old myths embedded in an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Anthem and an early work by Jacques Tardi. Continue reading
The Illusionist and His Illusions
I’d like to be able to say Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist is a better movie than the recently coronated Toy Story 3. Not that it isn’t a fine thing on its own terms. Continue reading
