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10 April 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

I have to be honest and up front, but these are the first two issues I’ve read of The Goon. I’ve heard a lot about it, and even collected a series by creator Eric Powell and artist Kyle Hotz called Billy The Kid’S Old-timey Oddities which I liked, but never jumped onto The Goon. Don’t exactly know why either. But after reading these two issues, I’m kicking myself a little because what I saw was a very odd case of likeability. Kind of like a Spike Jonze joint.

The Goon – Issues #31 & 32

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Written and Drawn by Eric Powell

It figures I would jump on as the 10th Anniversary issue rolls around, but I think it’s best I start here anyway. At the end of issue # 32, Eric Powell gives a history on how The Goon was created, once being a weird Mr. »

22 March 2009 9:40 AM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

As part of a new effort to bring attention to under seen independent films and to support one of New York City's last independent video stores for specialty films, Hammer to Nail and Cinema Nolita have teamed up to host a series of weekly late night screenings in Nolita's space on Mulberry St. Tonight at 11pm, Jennifer Venditti, who Filmmaker selected as one of its 25 New Faces in Independent Film in 2007, will be on hand to screen her SXSW Jury prize winning doc Billy the Kid. In a piece for H2N last fall, Cullen Gallagher had this to say about the film: Unlike the exaggerated characters in even the best high school movies, there’s something unshakably authentic to this fifteen year-old-kid from Brunswick, Maine with a rat tail who wears... »

- Brandon Harris

2 articles from 2009