My friend Jason Neulander, a director and writer in Austin, shares two of my great passions: comics and theatre. Here’s the latest very cool thing that Jason has done: turned his radio play “Intergalactic Nemesis” into a graphic novel, which he then turned into — a live theatre piece combining elements of a stageplay, foley sound effects akin to radio drama, and visuals from the graphic novel.
In the 1990’s, I got to work with a “non-radio radio” group called Smugly Absurd several times, producing their shows at my theatre, Moving Arts; they were (and are) amazing actors, able to do numerous voices, ably accompanied by our late friend David Krebs, a premiere foley artist who could sonically convince you that you were boarding a train, scuffling in the dirt, taming a horse, or otherwise sharing in the adventures. I just wish we’d thought to produce a graphic novel and build that into it, too.
I’ve been to many a political celebration (or “meet-and-greet,” as with my Congressman, last Sunday) and there’s usually alcohol, and sometimes cigars. Which begs the question, what’s camp Romney been doing about this, given the Mormon sanction against such vices. I was especially interested in this, given that I have some Mormon friends. So I found this explainer from Slate especially illuminating.
When you haven’t won a contest yet, and a recent poll now has you running behind a fictional character, you might want to drop out. That means you, Jon Huntsman.
Thank you, Louis C.K. Thank you for the return of comic as moralist — Jonathan Swift would be proud — and thank you for being so right about this in particular. I think I’ll share this with Milt & Edie’s.
