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Comic Book Confidential

Canada, United States

1989

85 Min
Color, Black and White
1.33:1
English
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DIR Ron Mann

PROD Don Haig, Martin Harbury, Charles Lippincott

SCR Ron Mann, Charles Lippincott

DP Joan Churchill, Robert Fresco

CAST Charles Burns, Art Spiegelman, Françoise Mouly, Frank Miller, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, William M. Gaines

ED Robert Kennedy

MUSIC Dr. John, Keith Elliott, Gerard Leckey, Nicholas Stirling

AFI FEST, Berlinale (Panorama), Sundance (Documentary Competition)

Synopsis

Comic Book Confidential is a feature-length documentary that profiles twenty-two of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and strip-art in North America today. In an entertaining and informative combination of interviews, historical footage and state-of-the-art animation techniques, Comic Book Confidential provides a positive answer to that burning existential question of the late twentieth century first posed by Zippy the Pinhead: “Are we having fun yet?” —Syndicado

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Polyglot

20Jan13

''Guuud, he's so cute it's scary Hopey!''

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my nigga totoro

1Mar12

I'd rather listen to that dude from EC comics any day if it meant never having to listen to the burned out idiots from the 60s again. "Hey, man, we parodied Mickey Mouse" yeah, good for you, fuck off.

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Christopher Smith

29Dec11

Starts off a bit perfunctory with its coverage of the Golden Age of comics and the Wertham scandal, but hits its stride when it turns its attention to the underground comics scene of the 60s. At its strongest when it allows the comic artists themselves to tell their own stories and explain their individual unique styles.

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Roger Da Silva João

23Jul11

I like this one because it is really complete, as they give voice to the mainstream as well to the underground comics. but maybe due to time restrictions, some parts seem to be quite superficial. some of the artists deserve a whole doc just for themselves.

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