The Burbach Tells You to Shut Up!: Archive

Feb 27th

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Feb 27th

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Jolie Holland Channels a Haunting Past at the... →

Feb 27th

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R. Crumb's "Fritz the Cat" Still Shocking,... →

Feb 24th

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Backstage with Morgan Murphy, Greg Behrendt,... →

Feb 22nd

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Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" Will Slowly Tie... →

Feb 22nd

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Feb 22nd

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Kate Glasheen's Graphic Novel "Bandage" Deserves... →

Feb 21st

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Feb 20th

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Feb 17th

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"Transient" - Homeless Heroes Save San Francisco... →

Feb 15th

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Feb 15th

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"Keeping Two" by Jordan Crane →

Dunno where I’ve been, but I just discovered this today and it took me completely by surprise. An emotional bomb-blast that I couldn’t stop reading — when I discovered that it’s an ongoing (still unfinished) serial, I started gritting my teeth in anticipation. Truly intense human drama captured in deceptively simple (quietly complex) visuals. Jordan Crane, you have a new...

Feb 15th

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Feb 13th

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Feb 12th

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Daniel Clowes on His "Nancy" Collection

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Daniel Clowes I conducted last fall. The volume of Nancy strips referenced here will be out soon from Fantagraphics. CB: Fantagraphics is putting out a collection of Nancy strips, many of which came from your own collection. DC: I found it baffling that I had the best collection of Nancy strips. I bought a bunch of them off eBay in like 1998....

Feb 10th

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Feb 9th

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Feb 8th

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Feb 8th

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SF Sketchfest Round-Up

Here’s a quick tally of my coverage of SF Sketchfest, which ended this past Saturday. It was a lot of fun, as always. Looking forward to next year already. SF Sketchfest Preview (12/9/11) Interview with Barbara Gray (1/20/12) Review of Eugene Mirman’s “Pretty Good Friends” (1/23/12) Review of “Set List” with Greg Proops, Chelsea Peretti, and Robin Williams...

Feb 7th

“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the...”

– Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, Kick-Ass Mega-Judge (via jessethorn)

Feb 7th

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Why Writing About Super Bowl Ads is Absurd

When an advertisement runs on television, the volume automatically increases. I don’t know how corporations get away with this little trick, but it’s been a standard practice for many years. I don’t know why it’s necessary, either. Advertisers already have a captive audience: people who have tuned in to a particular program, and who are not going to get up and walk away in the middle of it....

Feb 6th

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