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March/April 2022 59During the American Depression, the Golden Age of Comics, Arthur Pinajian fashioned comic strips with strips such as ‘Hooded Justice’, ‘Invisible Justice’, ‘Madam Fatal’ and ‘Reynolds of the Mounted’. In the 1950s he worked on Western stories for Atlas/Marvel. The while he drew and painted landscapes and fgures in an abstract Expressionism in […]
When Stephen Spielberg was making ‘Schindler’s List, in the early 1990s, he invited some of the Holocaust survivors who had been saved from the gas chambers by Oscar Schindler onto his movie set. The guests mingled with the actors and crew during a break. Amid all the lights, the electrical wires criss-crossing the set, the […]
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By David Burke. The Liffey Press has just republished Kevin O’Connor’s 2012 gem, ‘Harry Kernoff, The Little Genius’, the only full-length biography of the painter. The original edition became impossible to acquire years ago. The reprint is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of Kernoff’s pictures, made possible by years of detective work on the part of […]
(November 2020, Village magazine)
By Sean Byrne. Until the beginning of the nineteenth century ships entering and leaving Dublin port frequently stuck on sand banks at the entrance to the port and had to wait until a high tide floated them in or out. To solve this problem, the Great South Wall and the North Bull Wall were […]