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Lily and Generoso (plasticgrapes)
@plasticgrapes.bsky.social
The collaborative Ignatz-nominated comics efforts of Lily and Generoso. Our newest, ABSOLUTE SIMULTANEITY, is now available via Domino Books. See linktree: linktr.ee/plasticgrapes
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We just found out that our newest book, Absolutely Simultaneity, was selected as the #2 Comic of 2024 by Colin Blanchette for The Comics Journal!!! We're so very honored! Many thanks to @loadingthecanon.bsky.social and @comicsjournal.bsky.social!
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Wow, a stunning photo of Yukio Mishima standing in front of a poster of his film, Patriotism or the Rite of Love and Death! An imported 35mm print of the Mishima's film screens with Koji Wakamatsu's The Woman Who Wanted to Die at the Japan Society in NYC on 12/12!
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Glad to see that Simón Mesa Soto's A Poet has a U.S. theatrical release date (Jan. 30)! The film was one of our favorite watches at this year's AFI Fest, and you can read our review of it in our festival coverage.
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@12special.bsky.social #SimónMesaSoto
Meet Oscar Restrepo. A poet. A dreamer. A failure in life. Until now…

Directed by Simón Mesa Soto. A POET is in theaters January 30.
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A POET | Official Trailer
YouTube video by 1-2 Special
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November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We love the brand new reissue by Dog Eye Press of David Tea's 2017 comic, The Grove of Weird Shrubs!
#Altcomics #DavidTea
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Ryan Carey calls THAT AWAY COMIX “an entirely satisfying metafictional quasi-treatise on nostalgia, genre, drugs, and even an approximation (after a fashion) of spirituality.”
Check out his full review at Four Color Apocalypse on Patreon!

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November 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This is incredible! They are auctionining off Moira Shearer's red shoes from Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes! We hope these end up in a museum!

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November 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Rest in power, Tatsuya Nakadai 💙 We love Nakadai in all of the Kurosawa and Kobayashi's films, and thinking of Kobayashi, it's difficult at this sad moment to not want to watch Harakiri just for his performance.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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ANGOULÊME 2026 in serious doubt as publishers and authors cancel to protest Bondoux's involvement
ANGOULÊME 2026 in serious doubt as publishers and authors cancel to protest Bondoux’s involvement
Creators and publishers are threatening a boycott after controversial organisation 9e Art+ and its owner Franck Bondoux are set to resume their place as organisers of the Angoulême Festival
www.comicsbeat.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
So glad that the Knoxville Museum of Art has finally dedicated a room to the work of the Knoxville Seven: Kermit Ewing, Carl Sublett, Walter Stevens, Robert Birdwell, Joanne Higgs, Richard Clarke, and Phillip Nichols! Brilliant abstract expressionism.
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is the last weekend of the exhibit at the Knoxville Museum of Art that celebrates the legacy of Alfred and Jane West Clauss, and we must take this moment to say how much we've always admired these wartime posters that Alfred created!
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
We just got our copy of CANON #6 and we have already devoured it! Yum! It includes our conversation with the wonderful David Tea, as well as interviews Patrick Keck, Paige Hender, Donald Rex, and much more!
##Altcomics
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"If this almost three-hour experience from Jude seems too overwhelming, it should. Dracula is as bombastic of an experience as the equally polarizing 2019 masterwork from Albert Serra, Liberté." -- Lily and Generoso Fierro
Dracula – Ink 19
Lily and Generoso review Dracula, director Radu Jude’s second feature of 2025, a delightfully controlled explosion of tales connected to everyone’s favorite parasitic impaler.
ink19.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you missed this year's Short Run Comics Festival like we did (wow, it looked packed in a good way), you can experience it through @fourcolorryan.bsky.social's superb writings and photos!
#Altcomics
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Scene Report : Short Run 2025 | Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse
Get more from Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse on Patreon
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November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Just published on @ink19.bsky.social is our review of director Radu Jude's frenetic three hour tribute to all things Dracul and Vlad the Impaler, Dracula! You may have heard things about it, and it's not like that. Actually it is like that, but we love it!
#RaduJude
ink19.com/2025/11/maga...
Dracula – Ink 19
Lily and Generoso review Dracula, director Radu Jude’s second feature of 2025, a delightfully controlled explosion of tales connected to everyone’s favorite parasitic impaler.
ink19.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Put the pencils down for an hour late last night to dig into the new Comics Blogger #14, and we're happy to report that it's chock full of comics reading goodness! Get your own...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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"For us, no fall is complete without reviewing the wildly eclectic offerings of the American Film Institute’s five-day festival that annually takes over the TCL Chinese Theatres on Hollywood Boulevard." -- Lily and Generoso Fierro
AFI Fest 2025 – Ink 19
For the eleventh straight year, Lily and Generoso absorbed all that is AFI Fest 2025, the American Film Institute’s five-day festival, and they’re back to review their eight favorite features from…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Just up on @ink19.bsky.social is our piece on this year's AFI Fest in L.A.! We caught seventeen features over the five-day fest, and here we review our eight favorites, including new releases by Alejo Moguillansky, Radu Jude, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and Hong Sangsoo!
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AFI Fest 2025 – Ink 19
For the eleventh straight year, Lily and Generoso absorbed all that is AFI Fest 2025, the American Film Institute’s five-day festival, and they’re back to review their eight favorite features from the...
ink19.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It was fifty years ago today when Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. In his honor, we want to repost our 2019 @ink19.bsky.social review of Abel Ferrara's intimate portrait of Pasolini's final days.

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Pasolini – Ink 19
Willem Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara’s look at director and writer Pasolini.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Rest in peace to the brilliant UK filmmaker, Peter Watkins 💙 If you've not seen The War Game (1966) and Punishment Park (1971), please do! They are as relevant now as they were when they were made! Also, his film on Edvard Munch is essential. A work which Bergman called genius!
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1966 The War Game Official Trailer 1 British Broadcasting Corporation
YouTube video by Klokline Cinema
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October 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Los Angeles friends! On Wed. 11/12 and Thurs. 11/13, you can catch a double feature on 35mm @newbeverly.bsky.social of two of the finest films by one of our favorite directors of the 1980s, Bill Forsyth!
#BillForsyth
Two from writer-director Bill Forsyth! LOCAL HERO (1983) & HOUSEKEEPING (1987) screen in 35mm November 11th & 12th. Tickets: buff.ly/tgalJz9
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Fellow Philadelphian Comics Creators and Cultural Organizers! Apply for this grant from The Velocity Fund! Deadline is in two weeks!
#Altcomics
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Application Requirements & Due Dates — Velocity Fund
Application checklist, due dates, timelines, eligibility. More details on how to submit your application.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Happy 87th Birthday, @ralphbakshi.bsky.social! Endless thanks to you for all of the inspiration!
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
CANON #6 IS OUT, and it is packed with new reviews and interviews, including our in-depth conversation with one of our favorite comics creators, David Tea! Pick it up!!!
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CANON #6 is here!

Featuring interviews with Dave Baker, Patrick Keck, David Tea, Paige Hender, and Donald Rex!

Available now at canonzine.bigcartel.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Now Playing on 22 Panels:
A conversation with Matt Madden

His new book Six Treasures of the Spiral is in stores November 19.

22panelspodcast.blogspot.com/2024/11/GP-M...
November 13, 2024 at 12:05 AM
That stopped being a baseball game two hours ago! That was brutal. Hats off to the Jays! Congrats to the Dodgers!
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM