Hairy Christmas
Zach Galifianakis's new Brooklyn apartment is almost bare. There's a couch and a table with a vase of sunflowers, some books and papers. Taped up on the adjacent wall are three maps of the Middle East. "Oh, don...
Hijinx
Comic artist Evan Dorkin offers readers an unusual recipe.
Pope Impious
_PulpHope_ (AdHouse Books, 2007), modern mythmaker and comic-art giant Paul Pope's new 250-page graphic monograph is part autobiography, part retrospective and part pornographic sketchbook. The oversized volume...
Good Chemistry
Remembered for her zany hats and pubescent troubles on the sitcom _Blossom_, Mayim Bialik could have easily entered pop culture's stable of desperate reality TV stars. But save an appearance on _Curb Your Enthu...
The Ballad Of Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler's music seems to exist in a world of its own. Most songs consist of little more than a carefully finger-picked acoustic guitar and a wispy, disembodied voice that recalls Hope Sandoval's reverb-d...
God Save The Queen
For a gay, bald, chubby Jew, Matt Lucas is pretty comfortable in his own skin. Then again, the actor/comedian is perhaps better known for the multitude of other skins he inhabits in his BBC hit show _Little Bri...
Taking It To The Streets
"They just aren't pretty," my grandmother declared after walking in and quickly out of Zoe Strauss' solo exhibition at Silverstein Photography this past summer. I was startled. I had spent the last month visiti...
The Gospel According to A.J.
The market for gimmick books—shtick lit, as it were—has enjoyed a surprising shelf life. There are authors who pledge not to spend money for a year, those who promise to say yes to everything and, of course, th...
Army@Love
The revolution's gonna be graphic-novelized. In his Vertigo/DC monthly comic book, _Army@Love_, comiconoclast Rick Veitch drops subversive sci-fi-satire bombs. A collection of the first six issues, _Army@Love V...
Joan of Snark
Heeb is devastated at the loss of comic legend Joan Rivers. Here, from our 2007 "Chosen" issue is the definitive Joan profile. The world is a less-funny place without her.
My Stalker
Mike Albo loves attention, but this isn't really what he meant. A victim's true, and truly hilarious, story.
