This 12-part comic series seems like a fan's homage to Carl Bark' Disney stories, but we uncover how the values of "hard work" within (and the corporate machinations of many publishers) led Rosa to quit making comics out of frustration and resentment.

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• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

Additional Resources:

• Don Rosa on himself
• Don Rosa Collection
• IntroDUCKtion to the Life and Times of $crooge McDuck
• Going Quackers

This 1987 filmed monologue changed the way mainstream media considered autobiographical performance art. We discuss how Gray made the film with director Jonathan Demme and the emotional themes throughout that resonate after his suicide.

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• Swimming To Cambodia (film)
• Swimming To Cambodia (book)

Additional Resources:

• Georgakas, D., & Porton, R. (1993). The art of autobiography. Cineaste, 19(4), 34.
• Through a Lens, Intently. By: Salomon, Andrew, Back Stage East, 19305966, 5/25/2006, Vol. 47, Issue 21
• Johnson, B. D. (1992). The talking cure. Maclean’s, 105(28), 44.
• FILM: SPALDING GRAY'S 'SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA'
• Swimming to Cambodia: A Channel for Spalding Gray’s Seismic Prose
• Theatrical Cinema: How Stop Making Sense, Swimming to Cambodia, and Bronson Combined Two Art Forms
• The Mask Behind the Voice
• Everything You Need to Know About the Movie That Inspired “Parker Gail’s Location is Everything”
• Demastes, W. (1989). Spalding Gray's "Swimming to Cambodia" and the Evolution of an Ironic Presence. Theatre Journal, 41(1), 75-94.

This influential 1979 album combined art education with working class political activism to play with the meaning of pop music. We discuss the production of the record and the band's conflicts (or lack thereof) with their record label and the BBC.

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• Entertainment!

Additional Resources:

• Dettmar, K. J. H. (2014). Gang of Four’s Entertainment! New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
• Gang Of Four Track By Track
• Andy Gill meets Andy Gill
• Jerky, punky, funky
• Gang of Four Anthrax
• Hoover, M., & Stokes, L. (1998). Pop Music and the Limits of Cultural Critique: Gang of Four Shrinkwraps Entertainment. Popular Music & Society, 22(3), 21.
• Smith, M. R. (2005). So Sweet. Remix, 7(7), 106.

This horror comic by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn purports to act symbolically like our archetypes of myth. We ask whether it's successful in getting into our subconscious and if cosmic horror and lack of meaning even scare us anymore.

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• Nameless

Additional Resources:

• Afterword in the collected NAMELESS
• 'Nameless' Was the Scariest Comic Book of 2015
• Understanding Grant Morrison's "Nameless"
• Halloween Horror: Nameless by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn
• Kill Yr Gods: Reconnecting with Grant Morrison Through Nameless
• Brain Teeth / Endless Nameless Part 2: Macro Meaning vs Micro Meaning

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• Taboo, Season One

Additional Resources:

• Tom Hardy wins dream acting role - after convincing his dad to create it for him
• ‘Taboo’ will return to FX in 2018
• BBC to break 'Taboo' with 'inaccurate' portrayal of East India Company
• FX's Taboo Offers a Realistic Portrayal of Monopoly
• Taboo writer Steven Knight plans at least two more series of the BBC1 drama
• Taboo's gunpowder plot: can you really make explosives from manure?
• Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy's Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius
• A Chat With Tom Hardy: Is His ‘Taboo’ Killer a True Shaman or ‘Just F***ing Mad’?
• Everything you need to know about Taboo, the new BBC Tom Hardy drama
• TABOO: TOM HARDY EXPLAINS THE SUPERNATURAL SIDE OF THE PERIOD DRAMA