PUNK Magazine Began With Lou Reed Comic
With the death of Lou Reed, I tried to contact John Holmstrom, who’s cover drawing and interview of Lou Reed launched the seminal PUNK Magazine. Holmstrom and I actually spoke last week about doing an interview for 13th Dimension later this week, so we’ll have an update and some more PUNK history in a few days. So for now, in remembrance of Lou Reed, I’ll pass along a bit of rock’n roll and comics history.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Trailer
Here’s the first trailer from the new Cap movie. Joining Chris Evans is Scarlet Johansson, Sam Jackson and hey, that’s Robert Redford! A quick peak at the Falcon, too!
Al Plastino’s JFK Superman Art Stolen? (UPDATED)
From his Facebook page, legendary artist Al Plastino’s plea for help about his Superman art depicting president John F. Kennedy:
“PLease help if you can. The art I donated and thought for all these years was being housed at the Kennedy library at Harvard is now being auctioned off on the anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination. And now I am finding out that the art may have never made it to the library.
CBLDF Defends Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere
We just received this from CBLDF: This week, CBLDF took a leadership role in a coalition of anti-censorship advocates — including the National Coalition Against Censorship, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers, and the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom — to defend Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere, which has been removed from shelves in Alamogordo High School pending review.