News

Revisiting 18 years of pop culture, from Britpop to the Spice Girls, via Father Ted

1994: Mad fer it!

Issue No 1 Previously a broadsheet section in the newspaper, The Guide was expanded into a magazine proper on 27 August 1994. Nobody bothered to archive a copy, though, so the best we can do is show you a Xeroxed reproduction of the cover. At the time we were concerned with the weird state of science shows on TV and had a wander around the Notting Hill Carnival.

Spotted! All Saints From a review of their single Silver Shadow: "Born in the same year and in the same area of London, what else could these girls do but form a swingbeat group? Their debut is a sickly Atlantic Starr cover with an idiotic number of mixes, encompassing every dance style bar Morris. Eternal may rest easy in their Timberlands." Note: swingbeat was a form of...

The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.

Action Lab Entertainment

Princeless #3, $3.99

Antarctic Press

Brian Keene’s Dead New World 6 Pack, $20.00

Ape Entertainment

Dark Axis Rise Of The Overmen #2 (Of 4), $3.99

Helldorado #2 (Of 3), $3.99

Prodigal Egg Of First Light Tp, $12.95

Archaia Entertainment

Fraggle Rock Classics Volume 1 Tp, $9.95

Archie Comics

Archie And Friends Double Digest #12, $3.99

Jughead #211, $2.99

Jugheads Double Digest #177, $3.99

Sonic The Hedgehog Archives Volume 17 Tp, $7.99

Sonic Universe #36, $2.99

Aspen Mlt

Charismagic #4 (Cover A Khary Randolph), $2.99

Charismagic #4 (Cover B Siya Oum), $2.99

Charismagic #4 (Cover C Micah Gunnell), $2.99

Charismagic #4 (Cover D Nicola Hwang), $2.99

Charismagic #4 (Emilio Lopez Sudana Variant Cover), Ar

Dead Man’s Run #1 (Cover A Tony Parker), $3.50

Dead Man’s Run #1 (Cover B Joe Benitez), $3.50

Avatar Press

Caligula #6 (Of 6)(Jacen Burrows Regular Cover), $3.99

Caligula #6 (Of 6)(German Nobile Wraparound Cover), $3.99

Caligula #6 (Of 6)(Jacen...

Phoenix — Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half century. The appeal endured, the author thought, because the American public needed the consistency.

Keane, who started drawing the one-panel cartoon featuring Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. and their parents in February 1960, died Tuesday at age 89 at his longtime home in Paradise Valley, near Phoenix. His comic strip is featured in nearly 1,500 newspapers across the country.

Jeff Keane, Keane's son who lives in Laguna Hills, Calif., said that his father died of congestive heart failure with one of his other sons by his side after his conditioned worsened during the last month. All of Keane's five children, nine grandchildren and great-granddaughter were able to visit him last week, Jeff Keane said.

"He said, `I love you' and that's what I said to him, which...

The recent documentary Surfwise considers how children raised as ascetics grow up and struggle to make their way in a materialistic society. David Munro's debut feature, Full Grown Men, comes at the problem from the opposite direction. Matt McGrath plays a middle-aged family man and former class clown who still clings to the instant-gratification culture he grew up with: a world of action figures, kung-fu movies, sugar cereals, and amusement parks. Now 35 and having trouble dealing with his responsibilities as a husband and father, McGrath packs a bunch of his vintage toys in a suitcase and travels across Florida, planning to sell his collection, reconnect with his boyhood best friend Judah Friedlander, and go to "Diggityland." Not on his itinerary? Growing the hell up. Full Grown Men is intended as a commentary on a phenomenon that cartoonist Bill Griffith once dubbed "kidults": adults who dress, behave, and entertain.