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Coover, Robert
(1932-2024) US author who established a considerable reputation with his novels, in which Fabulation and political scatology mix fruitfully. His work could be seen to represent a Postmodernist intensification of the same milieu excoriated by Richard Condon; at times both authors seem to be describing a nightmare dream of orgy-choked life in the Late Roman Empire (see ...
Matrix Reloaded, The
Film (2003). Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Village Roadshow Pictures and NPV Entertainment presents a Silver Pictures production. Andy (now Lilly) Wachowski and Larry (now Lana) Wachowski. Cast includes Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Foster, Carrie-Anne Moss, Keanu Reeves, Jada Pinkett Smith and Hugo Weaving. 133 minutes. Colour. / As the machines burrow towards the human underground city of Zion, Neo and his associates re-enter the Matrix ...
Gravity Falls
US animated tv series (2012-2016). Disney Television Animation (see Disney on Television). Created by Alex Hirsch, also executive producer. Writers include Matt Chapman, Hirsch, Jeff Rowe and Josh Weinstein. Directors include John Aoshima, Matt Braly, Joe Pitt and Aaron Springer. Voice cast includes Linda Cardellini, Hirsch, Jason Ritter, Kristen Schaal and Thurop Van Orman. 40 episodes (usually 23 minutes long, though some are double-length), ...
Comics
This entry covers the comic strip in daily and Sunday newspapers, European comic papers and the initially US-style comic book; it does not cover the Graphic Novel per se, although clearly there is a more than casual overlap between the two categories. / Comics stories use some interaction of text and picture, as opposed to the "storybook" or "picture book" use of words plus illustrations. Design, drawing style, caption and word-balloon continuity ...
Donnell, A J
(1905-1991) US jazz drummer, advertising manager and illustrator who served in the US Army during World War Two; while there are reports that he did some uncredited interior illustrations for Startling Stories during the late 1930s and 1940s, Donnell is otherwise known exclusively as the one of the four founders of the small press Fantasy Press. For three years, he worked as the company's ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...