Depth Of Field presents Hip-Hop & Comics at Washington D.C.’s Awesome Con!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” panel presentation at Awesome Con in Washington D.C., Saturday April 20th. Depth Of Field Magazine brings together renowned comic creators...
View ArticleAlbum Reviews: Locust, vintage electronic soul, Justin Timberlake
Locust- You’ll Be Safe Forever (Editions Mego, 2013) Locust is the name that composer/musician Mark Van Hoen recorded under around the turn of the millennium, producing a series of influential (and...
View ArticleDepth Of Field presents “Comics And Pop Music” at C2E2 2013!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Comics And Pop Music” panel presentation at C2E2, Saturday, April 27th. Depth Of Field Magazine brings together comic creators and industry professionals to discuss their work...
View ArticleDepth Of Field’s Hip-Hop & Comics panel at WonderCon Anaheim 2013 – photos,...
On March 30th, 2013, Depth Of Field went to WonderCon in Anaheim, California to present the latest in our “Hip-Hop & Comics: Cultures Combining” panel discussions. We assembled a selection of...
View ArticleC2E2 2013: The weekend in words and photos.
After the wonderful time we had at C2E2 in 2012, it was never in doubt that we’d return to Chicago this year for another round of multi-media excitement (and delicious deep-dish pizza). We looked at...
View ArticleDepth Of Field presents “Hip-Hop & Comics: Cultures Combining” at...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” panel presentation at Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con, Saturday June 1st. Depth Of Field Magazine brings together renowned comic...
View ArticleFrom The Archives: Rolling Stone UK on Marvel Comics, 1969.
Rolling Stone’s 1971 cover story on Marvel Comics (discussed here) is one of the best-known and most-referenced documents of the comic book industry in that era. It’s a glimpse inside Marvel at a...
View ArticleHip-Hop Comics: Jim Mahfood part one (Los Angeles Ink Stains and various...
My first exposure to Jim Mahfood’s work was a single-page story in The Song Of Mykal, an anniversary comic published by one of my favorite comic shops (Atlantic Fantasyworld, in Santa Cruz,...
View ArticleDepth Of Field presents Hip-Hop & Comics and The Fifth Beatle programs at...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Depth Of Field Magazine presents “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” and “Comics of The Fab Four: The Fifth Beatle and beyond” panels at HeroesCon 2013. Creators and...
View ArticleDepth Of Field presents “Hip-Hop & Comics: Cultures Combining” at Wizard...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” panel presentation at Wizard World Comic Con NYC, Saturday June 29th. Depth Of Field Magazine brings together comic creators and Hip-Hop...
View ArticleDepth Of Field presents Hip-Hop & Comics: Cultures Combining at San Diego...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining” panel presentation at Comic-Con International: San Diego on July 20th at 7pm. Depth Of Field Magazine brings together renowned comic...
View ArticleNew Comic Reviews: Sex Criminals, Numbercruncher
I love comic books. I love the medium, I love the format, I love the potential inherent in words and pictures, of stories bound only by the creators’ imagination. And right now seems to be a...
View ArticleDepth Of Field Presents VANISHING POINTS: Two Nights Of Comic-Centric...
Depth Of Field Magazine is proud to present Vanishing Points, two nights of comic-centric events at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on Thursday October 10th and Saturday October 12th. These two evenings will...
View ArticleM.I.A. live at Terminal 5, 11/1/2013
On November 1st, M.I.A. played the first of a pair of New York City shows promoting the release of her new album, Matangi. The evening began with a surprise: a brief intro over the house PA, and then...
View ArticleInterview: Creators Vivek J. Tiwary And Andrew Robinson Discuss “The Fifth...
Vivek Tiwary and Andrew Robinson’s The Fifth Beatle is a new graphic novel that tells the story of Brian Epstein, a man who discovered and managed The Beatles, and built them from a modestly popular...
View ArticleAlbum Reviews: Luscious Jackson, The Shondes, Mike Doughty
Luscious Jackson – Magic Hour (City Song Records, 2013) It’s been fourteen years since the last Luscious Jackson album. In their late-90s heyday, their infectious tunes spanned the divide between the...
View ArticleChristmas Music Guidebook, Part One: A Totally Tijuana Christmas!
There are few things in popular culture as divisive as Christmas music. The mere mention of the topic tends to create two factions in an otherwise amenable group; one party feels as though they must...
View ArticleChristmas Music Guidebook: A Hawaiian Holiday Hullabaloo!
There are few things in popular culture as divisive as Christmas music. The mere mention of the topic tends to create two factions in an otherwise amenable group; one party feels as though they must...
View ArticleYoung Avengers: Now And Forever.
Last week, Marvel Comics released Young Avengers #15, the concluding issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s teen superhero saga. Over the last year, the series built a passionate fanbase for its...
View ArticleHip-Hop Comics: Rotten Apple
One of Hip-Hop’s defining qualities is its very lack of easy definition. It’s a style, it’s a culture, it’s an attitude. Common usages of the term are applied to fashion, to dance, to visual art, to...
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