Pop culture roundup: Brian Wilson! Beatles! Julies Feiffer! Batman!

Read about a lost stash of Brian Wilson recordings.
....there remains a post-Smile body of Wilson recordings that is almost unknown to critics, historians and fans alike. L.A. Weekly recently was granted access to many of these never-before-heard tapes from 1968 to 1974 — almost 60 titles in all — currently stored at the Beach Boys' archive on Vanowen Street, near Bob Hope Airport in Burbank.


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Here's a video of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr rehearsing for their Grammys appearance a few weeks back.



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Acclaimed cartoonist (and former assistant to Will Eisner) Jules Feiffer will publish his first fictional graphic novel this summer. Here's a preview.
“Working in the noir form for the first time, I began fooling with a story line, not really knowing where I was going, leaving behind the sketchy line drawings I had become known for and the satiric political and social ideas that made up my subject matter for over forty years. Instead, I began to experiment with the sort of work I loved and read as a teen-ager: not only Eisner and Caniff but the private-eye guys Hammett and Chandler, along with such noir movies as ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ ‘The Big Sleep,’ ‘Double Indemnity,’ and ‘Mildred Pierce.’ I tried to write and draw in celebration of the works that meant so much to me as a young man, areas that I had steadfastly avoided up till now because I didn’t think I was the right artist to draw the story I wanted to tell."


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We've featured some of these in the past, but here's a nice assortment of bonkers 1960s Batman Valentines.


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