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Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (10/12/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Van Dyke Parks to Release New Music

Legendary musician and wordsmith Van Dyke Parks has announced his first new music release since 1995’s Orange Crate Art, a collaboration with former Beach Boy Brian Wilson. The project will be a series of six 7” singles, which will all be released this year on Parks’ Bananastan label. Only the first two singles, “Dreaming of Paris” and “Wedding in Madagascar,” have names so far.   read more

The Booky Man: Maus... or There's No Place Like Home for the Holocaust

Comic books in their most familiar form—tales of super-heroes and adventurers—sprang from pulp novel potboilers of the 1930s and ‘40s. They were often lurid, licentious, shocking. In fact, by the 1950s, as America focused on the Red Scare and those dirty Commies tunneling like termites under our American way of life, ‘seditious’ comic books grew so popular among impressionable young people that authorities passed laws banning comics… and even burned them....  read more

Art Spiegelman

Twenty years before the book-length Maus won a Pulitzer, Art Spiegelman...  read more