Interviewed by
Josh Bell
on
November 15, 2012
Writer Bill Willingham’s Fables, from DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, is one of the longest-running and most popular creator-owned comic-book series of all time. The story of folklore and fairy tale characters making their way in the modern world has gone on for more than 120 issues and spawned spin-offs including comics series Jack of Fables and Fairest, prose novel Peter and Max and now the graphic novel Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland, which finds popular Fables character Bigby ...
Interviewed by
Josh Bell
on
September 19, 2012
Over the course of more than 40 years in show business, Penny Marshall has starred as an iconic sitcom character (Laverne of Laverne & Shirley) and directed Oscar-nominated movies (although she has not been nominated for an Oscar herself). And while she was at it, she set a record as the first female director to have two movies gross more than $100 million: Big (1988) and A League of Their Own (1992). Now 68 and recovered from a battle ...
Interviewed by
Josh Bell
on
January 3, 2012
Search for Dylan Ratigan online, and you’ll find numerous videos labeled with terms like “rant” and “rage” and “freak out.” The host of MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show is known for his angry tirades against the banking industry, the health-care system and both major political parties.
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He takes on all of those topics and more in Greedy Bastards, which details his ideas about how to reform American banking, trade, education, health ...