John Kelly

2 weeks ago | tcj.com | John Kelly

Some say that revenge is a dish best served cold; Precious Rubbish, Kayla E.'s first collection of comics, is revenge served with word balloons and drawings. And puzzles. And paper dolls. This is a book that, at first glance, looks-you know-like a lot of fun!It's not. Despite its bright colors and generous use of classic children's activity book chestnuts to tell its story, Precious Rubbish is an autobiographical graphic novel about pain, trauma, child abuse and incest. Rough stuff.

1 month ago | tcj.com | John Kelly

A memory of Mark that comes to mind is a fairly recent though trivial one, but it kinda captures "him." A little background: Most of us who were Seattleites at any given time-homegrown like myself or one-time transplants like Mark-have a deep affection and an affinity for Seattle's beloved, fast-food restaurant chain, "Dick's Drive In." An unapologetically stuck-in-time holdover from the late-1950s.

1 month ago | tcj.com | John Kelly

Regardless of his Connecticut upbringing, John Peck was a particularly Rhode Island personality, educated by its premiere institution of higher learning - Brown University - and nurtured by the state's outré counter-culture, epitomized by the artists and creators who emerged from our other collegiate gem on Providence's East Side, the Rhode Island School of Design, which helped develop generations of quirky talents, including David Byrne and his band, the Talking Heads, film director Gus Van...

2 months ago | thevirginiasportsman.com | John Kelly

Some people take decades, or even a lifetime, to determine their life’s path. Dennis Frye never had that issue. The now-retired park ranger and chief historian at Harpers Ferry National Park (not to mention noted author, lecturer, and Civil War battlefield conservationist) decided the ranger life would be his when he was in sixth grade.

Oct 23, 2024 | tcj.com | John Kelly

Larry Todd, a multifaceted and talented artist whose work included wondrous science fiction paintings and trippy underground comix, died on Sept. 28 following a long illness. The cause of death was testicular cancer, according to Pepper Alexandria, a longtime friend of Todd's. He was 76. "I consider him to be a super genius, with an imagination like no one else's," said Alexandria, a cartoonist, belly dancer and former girlfriend of Todd's, who remained his close friend for 50 years.