For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been, “Lucky Eddie.” If not for the fact that my birth certificate and social security card both say, “Edward F. Munson,” I’d believe my first name was Lucky. Not sure how it all started or who started it. As is the case with most family [...]
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The Fucking Cute – Part 4
[The following first appeared in Music Feed Daily, October, 2064, by Jeffrey C. Burandt 3.] Bill Born : ”I came up with the name ‘The Fucking Cute’”. Johnny Profane: ”I came up with the name ‘The Fucking Cute’”. Dennet Flozzard: ”Jeff definitely came up with the name ‘The Fucking Cute’. I remember him writing it down [...]
Cinco de Sandra
On the first warm weekend in May, the streets were busy in Washington DC’s Dupont Circle, an artsy roundel that leads north from the White House and mall area. Loungers at Dupont’s fountain flipped through paperbacks and smoothed sun dresses a stone’s throw from several local bookshops presenting a collage of the local arts scene: [...]
Toucannuí 12: Velorio
There are only a few zero-cost outs from all professional deadlines, the easiest being “We’ve had a death in the family.” Far from needing a vacation — or even one more deadline-eating non-producing day away from my desk — I spoke the spell to my editor in New York that pushed my comic’s next chapter [...]
A DOZEN MOVIES THAT SCARED THE SHIT OF ME, REVISITED PART-7: TOURIST TRAP
I was 8. We were all seated around the dinner table in our subterranean kitchen in Brooklyn, a rare late Friday afternoon that my parents were both home for dinner. My Dad was a cop and often worked late shifts, but for a few years in the ‘80s, he worked a second job on Friday [...]
The Stan Lee Universe at BookCourt
On May 2nd, BookCourt hosted a grand tour of The Stan Lee Universe published by TwoMorrows, an approachable archival work unleashing on the world some never-before seen materials from Stan Lee’s long career. Co-editor / writer/ historian Danny Fingeroth (with Roy Thomas), brought together a team of panelists to guide the audience through the thoroughfares, [...]
CRIMES OF THE SPIRIT: Now That They Were Home Alone
Not wanting the burden of caring for either one of them, the doctors and nurses conspired to release them into the world together. At the hospital, the scrubbed and powdered staff had treated them as curiosities, two sickly bundles of nervous energy and mania, lumped together by ailment and proximity. Caring for one who was [...]
GOD
I don’t believe in God. Never did. I’m 44 years old now. By the time I’m 50 I hope to be able to impart some kind of wisdom from my life experiences. I hope I have something more to say than I already have. I don’t believe in God but believing in something; people, art, [...]
©SETH KUSHNER
Credit Where Credit Is Due My livelihood is based entirely upon photos. I get paid to take them, and in some instances I get paid when they’re republished. There was a time, not so long ago, when resale of my work accounted for a large part of my business. Now, post crash and mid-recession, I [...]
Toucannuí 11: This Will Be Our Year
Inside the mirrored elevator an infinite row of Lillis, all of them dressed identically cute for New Year’s Eve, extended forward and behind forever in both directions. “She always makes the same meal”, Lil snickered as she shook her finger, the thousand copies of her doing the same. “It’s always delicious, and it’s always anchova grelhado [...]
This Space For Rent
I got my first tattoo in 1993 from a guy named Ram who operated illegally out of a Boston walk up. He was a friend’s ex and I paid him in one hundred unmarked single dollar bills for a tattoo that reads “Las Vegas,” has a topless showgirl on it, a poker hand, and a [...]
5 Comix Q’s for Dean Haspiel
A 12-year-old girl interviewed me about what it’s like to be a cartoonist, as an assignment for her class: 1. Did you have an idol or someone you inspired to be like when you were growing up? I’ve had many idols throughout the years but, in terms of comic books, I’d have to pick Jack [...]
