Showing posts with label Weird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weird. Show all posts

Friday, May 9, 2014

Media Montage Podcast 52: The Comics of Jack T. Chick





You’ve probably seen them in Laundromats or handed out in the street. They are Chick Tracts, some of the weirdest indie comics ever made. Bruce and Larry discuss the comics of Jack T. Chick, his controversial ministry and the strange comic stories at its foundation. Chick Tracts on episode #52 of the Media Montage Podcast!

Read Dark Dungeons

Read The Last Generation

Read Lisa

Read This Was Your Life

and the version for black audiences, It’s Your Life

Read Hard Times

A Theory that Chick and R. Crumb are one and the same


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Brain Teaser Comics:  Brainteasercomics.com

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Media Montage 27: Is This Tomorrow? - America Under Communism




Bruce and Larry take a look at a wonderful piece of anti-communist propaganda: Is This Tomorrow? - America Under Communism.  The Cold War was just ramping up in 1947, when this fascinating comic book was released by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society.

Read IS THIS TOMORROW?

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Media Montage 21: Conspiratainment




In this episode Larry and Bruce discuss the concept of 'conspiratainment', or conspiracy as entertainment. Is it all just crazy, nutbar rambling or do conspiracy theories have value in and of themselves? We try to figure it out while traveling down the rabbit-hole.

Here are some gateways down the rabbit hole. Reader BEWARE!

Rumor Mill News
Rense
Infowars
David Icke

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Media Montage Podcast 9: Some Weird Comics





This week Larry and Bruce talk comics...Weird Ones! Some strange books from our collections, The Eye, The Purple Claw, The Anomalies, and of course Stardust the Super Wizard. They also discuss the Digital Comics Museum where you can read some of these wonderfully weird books.

Read the Purple Claw #1 HERE!
Read a great collection of Stardust the Super Wizard HERE!
The Digital Comics Museum posts thousands of public domain comics available for download. I use Comical, a simple reader for .CBR and .CBZ files found at the DCM.