Comic-Con@Home presents a very special program commemorating the first Hip-Hop comic book, premiering online July 23rd at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern In the summer of 1986, a young graffiti artist and graphic designer from the South Bronx, Eric Orr, took the…
Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining At San Diego Comic-Con 2020
Comic-Con@Home presents an all-star “visual mixtape” conversation, premiering online July 24th at 6PM Pacific / 9PM Eastern For the past eight years, ‘Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining’ has been a highlight of San Diego Comic-Con’s programming, occupying a prime-time place…
Farewell, Andy Gill.
Angry and funny. Noisy and catchy. Aggressive and tuneful. Tight and terse, or sprawling and cloying. Razorwire guitars and dancefloor synths. Rough edges and smoothed-out surfaces. Visceral passion and calculated distance. Thundering percussion and clicking drum machines. Music to drink…
Starwarsploitation Sounds: Star Wars On Record, 1977-1979 [Revised And Expanded, 2019]
[This article was originally published on July 29, 2012, and has been revised and expanded numerous times since then, most recently in December 2019.] After Star Wars became a blockbuster success in 1977, it came as very little surprise that…
Return Of The Four-Color Funk: Hip-Hop And Comics At San Diego Comic-Con 2019!
Depth Of Field Magazine proudly presents “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” at San Diego Comic-Con 2019! Visual artists and musical icons take the stage for an in-depth discussion of the ties between these two creative cultures. On Friday, July 19th…
Stan Lee: A Birthday Remembrance
Ninety-six years ago today – on December 28th, 1922 – Stanley Martin Lieber was born in New York City. As a young adult, he adopted a nom de plume in order to write for comic books. Comics were widely considered…