Editors of I Love Bad Movies: Kseniya Yarosh and Matt Carman
Kseniya Yarosh (Creator) is a writer, illustrator, researcher, and Brooklyn Zine Fest co-organizer whose zines have been featured in The New York Times, Flavorwire, and Syndicated Zine Reviews. She is a co-host of the film podcast Bonnie & Maude,
which examines movies from a female perspective. She has produced
femme-centric video variety shows in Brooklyn, including You Are Hair
and Watching You Eat. Kseniya is currently working on a zine about the
Russian band Браво (Bravo) and the ‘80s rock scene in the Soviet Union.
kseniyayarosh.com / bonnieandmaude.com
Matt Carman is the editor of Come on Down: True Game Show Tales, an organizer of the Brooklyn Zine Fest, and author of Taken for a Ride: My Night in the Cash Cab. He produces and hosts movie screenings and variety shows with his co-editor, including Flop Night at Alamo Drafthouse. His writing has also appeared in Blood Video, Physical Impossibility: Popcorn Droppers, and the RoboCop (1987) fanzine Thank You For Your Cooperation. He has appeared on podcasts Read it and Weep and Bonnie & Maude, and NPR’s Ask Me Another.
carmanmatt.com
Matt and Kseniya are also the organizers of the Brooklyn Zine Fest, and look forward to organizing many more NYC events.
kseniyayarosh.com / bonnieandmaude.com
Matt Carman is the editor of Come on Down: True Game Show Tales, an organizer of the Brooklyn Zine Fest, and author of Taken for a Ride: My Night in the Cash Cab. He produces and hosts movie screenings and variety shows with his co-editor, including Flop Night at Alamo Drafthouse. His writing has also appeared in Blood Video, Physical Impossibility: Popcorn Droppers, and the RoboCop (1987) fanzine Thank You For Your Cooperation. He has appeared on podcasts Read it and Weep and Bonnie & Maude, and NPR’s Ask Me Another.
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Matt and Kseniya are also the organizers of the Brooklyn Zine Fest, and look forward to organizing many more NYC events.
Featured in #6: The Food Issue
All contributors are listed by the latest issue in which they appeared. For repeat contributors, past issues are also mentioned. Claudia Eve Beauchesne is a Montreal- and New York-based writer, curator, and film buyer. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary art and design in Brooklyn, Montreal, and Miami, and is currently writing a book on the history of New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s. Her writing has also appeared in Tunica, Packet, NY Arts, and Come on Down. claudiaevebeauchesne.com // Also in: #4, 5 Dan Berube is a writer and film student based in Toronto. He was a panel chair and presenter at the University of Toronto’s recent “Bodies on Film” conference and he is co-editing the forthcoming journal Snow: Essays on Canadian Television. twitter.com/hmsdanberube Matt Bird is a Harlem-based writer. His blog Cockeyed Caravan creates resources for writers, including “The Ultimate Story Checklist” which has been expanded into a book that’s coming soon. The blog also trumpets underrated movies, including “Special Guest Picks” by several I Love Bad Movies writers. cockeyedcaravan.blogspot.com // Also in: #3, 5 Cristina Cacioppo is the Creative Manager at Alamo Drafthouse in New York. As the film programmer for 92YTribeca, she programmed a Pootie Tang ten year anniversary screening, and her screenings of Road House and Streets of Fire were the initial inspiration for this zine. twitter.com/piercingscreen // Also in: #1, 2, 4, 5 John Carman is a Pittsburgh-based communication designer, social media pirate, and owner of Avenue Design Studios. John once recommended Lost Boys: The Thirst to Tom Savini. His writing has also appeared in Come on Down: True Game Show Tales. avenuedesignstudios.com // Also in: #5 Matt Desiderio is the editor of Blood Video, the zine about cult film and video culture. He is a producer of the VHS collector documentary Adjust Your Tracking. As part of Horror Boobs, he hosts screenings in New York and releases new and classic horror films on VHS. horrorboobs.com / horrorboobs.storenvy.com Eric Epstein is an animator and video artist in Brooklyn working in documentaries, music videos, and web design. He produced and directed the video for Memory Tapes’ “Yes I Know,” nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. najork.net // Also in: #2, 3, 5 Ezra Fox is a writer and producer based in San Francisco. He co-hosts Read it and Weep, “the good podcast about bad books, movies, and TV,” which has basically melted his brain. He likes sandwiches. ezrafox.com / read-weep.com // Also in: #5 Erin Gallagher (Soylent Green cover) is a freelance illustrator and designer in Brooklyn. Her illustrations can be seen on storefronts, apparel, and in her own comics and film-inspired prints. Her work has been exhibited in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and the U.K. erinillustration.com Malaka Gharib (The Stuff illustrated recipe) is the creator and editor of Washington, D.C.-based food zine The Runcible Spoon, which has been featured in The New York Times and Saveur Magazine. She has co-hosted community cookbook-making events in Brooklyn and D.C. therunciblespoon.info Kate Hutchinson works a desk job, but does her best to make it a nefarious desk job. As Tenebrous Kate, she examines the “lurid, weird, and fantastique” with her comic series Super Coven and film blog Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire, and is a regular contributor to Ultra Violent Magazine. super-coven.com // Also in: #4, 5 Guy J. Jackson is a writer, performer and moviemaker currently living in Los Angeles. He recently collaborated with BBC sound artist Robin The Fog on their storytelling album Notes On Cow Life. He has created more than two hundred short and feature-length films. youtube.com/guyjjackson James Jajac (Sledgehammer illustration) is a Queens-born illustrator currently hiding out in Long Beach, NY. He draws the satirical/nostalgic comic strip The Silver Lining under the alias Tim Warner. His Katy Perry portrait was seen in her documentary Part of Me. jamesjajac.tumblr.com // Also in: #3 Eleanor Kagan is a co-host and producer of Bonnie & Maude, the femme-centric film podcast, and co-host of live variety shows about women in film. She works for NPR’s Ask Me Another in New York, was the host of radio show The Hoot!, and has produced digital radio channels for iHeartRadio. bonnieandmaude.com // Also in: #5 M. Sweeney Lawless is a writer of ill repute in NYC. Writing includes music video “Check This Out” for Mighty Five and creepy séance movie Spirit Cabinet; recently she was the dramaturge for The Bardy Bunch off-off-Broadway. Meg can hide up to five bees secretly in her mouth. twitter.com/specky4eyes // Also in: #3, 4, 5 Kevin Maher is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer whose work has appeared on Comedy Central and HBO. He is the host of video variety show Kevin Geeks Out at Alamo Drafthouse and the creator of webseries Andrew 12-Sided Dice Clay. lovekevin.com // Also in: #2, 3, 4, 5 Laura Jayne Martin is a writer whose work has been featured in The Village Voice, The Hairpin, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. She wrote the 2008 short film Chemistry and the book Death By Nostalgia, and contributed to Fakes. laurajaynemartin.com // Also in: #1, 4, 5 Dan McCoy is an Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is the creator of the long running bad-movie podcast The Flop House, and the animator/co-star of the award-winning short series 9am Meeting. www.flophousepodcast.com // Also in: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Greg Rebis (Bad sandwich illustrations) is a Providence-based artist working in printmaking, graphic novel illustrations, and tiki-inspired ceramics. He is an instructor at Bristol Community College and Rhode Island School of Design, Continuing Ed. rain-art.com Mary Regan is an actor-writer-artist in New York, where she performs in improv, sketch, solo comedy, and off-off-Broadway productions. She writes and draws the mini-comic Sainted and creates drawings inspired by music and other obsessions. i-draw-music.tumblr.com // Also in: #4, 5 Claire Sanders is an illustrator and independent toy designer based in Alameda, CA. She is the creator and illustrator of Terrible Movie Nights, a collection of bad movie-inspired artwork. clairesanders.net Bob Satuloff is the lyricist of stage musical Elmer Gantry, former Film Editor of New York Native, and former “Gaylienation” columnist for Christopher Street. He hosts Bob’s Walk-in Drive-in, a free neighborhood film series in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. [email protected] // Also in: #3, 4, 5 Justin Shatraw is a freelance screenwriter living in Massachusetts. He has written episodes of the Emmy-winning PBS Kids show Wordgirl and Cartoon Network’s upcoming Sonic Boom. A single installment of his short lived webseries The Underemployed Adventures of Dallas Heck is on YouTube. twitter.com/ShatrawSays // Also in: #4, 5 Rick Sloane is a writer, director, and producer of independent horror-comedy and spoof films including Hobgoblins (featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000) and the Vice Academy series, which aired for nine consecutive years on the USA Network. ricksloane.com Chris Smith is the dulcet-toned co-host of Read it and Weep, the long-running podcast which recently celebrated its 200th episode. He recently relocated to Brooklyn from the west coast, possibly to escape the hordes of dive-bombing birds. twitter.com/cwaltersmith / read-weep.com Jay Stern is a film and theater director, member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and co-founder/producer/host of The Iron Mule Short Comedy Festival. His latest feature, The Adventures of Paul and Marian, was recently completed in New York. adventuresofpaulandmarian.com // Also in: #3, 4, 5, 6 Matt Sullivan is a writer and co-creator of the comic book Comeback Kings, in which Bruce Lee, Tupac, and Elvis have faked their own deaths and formed a crimefighting team. His writing has appeared in Salon, McSweeney’s, and The Onion. twitter.com/ComebackComic Stuart Wellington (Hannibal comic) is a comedian and performer based in Brooklyn. He is a co-host of bad-movie podcast The Flop House and has performed live at variety shows in New York including Kevin Geeks Out, Bad Movie Night, and Flop Night. twitter.com/flophousecat Sean Welsh is a freelance film journalist in Glasgow, editor of film zine Physical Impossibility, and official blogger for the Glasgow Film Festival. As a programmer for Matchbox Cineclub, he hosts pop-up cinema events throughout Scotland. physicalimpossibility.com Timmy Williams is a writer, producer, and comedy performer. He is a member of the sketch troupe The Whitest Kids U’ Know and a writer/cast member on the television series of the same name, which aired for five seasons on IFC. twitter.com/timmyisanerd |
Issue #5: Early & Late Roles
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David Archer is a publicist at Vintage Books. He has written for xoJane, the BOMBlog, and The Portland Review. As a presenter for variety show Meet the Lady, he shared research on the Mitford “Nemesisters” and interviewed Suspiria star Jessica Harper. vanityferal.tumblr.com Tom Blunt produced and hosted the monthly variety show Meet the Lady at 92YTribeca. Tom’s blog Doom Cakes was profiled by The Guardian in 2011. He currently writes for the Random House blog Word and Film. // Also in: #4 tomblunt.com / meetthelady.tumblr.com Max Cavanaugh is a seven year veteran of the Film Forum box office. During those years he has been an assistant editor on documentaries, an Apple Computer handyman, a film producer’s assistant, a screenwriter, and a professional appreciator of movies. twitter.com/basiccable Jeremy Jusay is a Brooklyn-based cartoonist and illustrator. His animation work can be seen in such series as Comedy Central’s Ugly Americans and Superjail, as well as feature film The Ten. jusay.com // Also in: #1, 3, 4 Elliott Kalan is the Emmy-winning head writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; one third of the bad movie podcast The Flop House; and host of Closely Watched Films, a series of actually good movies. www.flophousepodcast.com // Also in: #1, 2, 4 Christine Makepeace is the co-founder and editor of Paracinema, “the film magazine for people who love genre movies.” She writes for both the print magazine and its website, and can be heard on the Movies About Girls podcast. paracinema.net / cmakepeace.com John McCoy is a media designer and information specialist for the McMullen Museum of Art in Boston. John is also the Designer for Common-place, a journal of early American life. mccoy.pair.com Harry Merritt is a cinenaut with NYC-based film screening collective Cinebeasts and has written for an odd assortment of blogs and academic journals in his time; most recently he was published in Nationalities Papers. cinebeasts.com / twitter.com/HarryMerritt Andrew Miller co-produces the monthly Basic Cable Classics film series at 92YTribeca, hosting post-screening Q&As with Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy), Anthony Rapp (Adventures in Babysitting), and Alex Winter (Freaked). Andrew is also a co-director of the Doomsday Film Festival. twitter.com/basiccable Shove Mink is the San Francisco-based creator of Movie Puke, the “tiny zine for cinemasochists.” She is also a crafter of all things crocheted, printed, sculpted, and strange. croshame.com / croshame.etsy.com // Also in: #3, 4 Eric Nelson is an author of fiction, zine librarian at ABC No Rio, performance artist, and member of the Bushwick-based writers collective 1441. He is also the co-curator of the Fireside Follies reading series. firesidefollies.wordpress.com Chris Piascik is the “illustrator formerly known as designer” whose hand-lettering styles can be found on the cover of Mayer Hawthorne’s album How Do You Do and in Chris’ own zine Typostruction. He is currently turning his “1000 Days of Drawing” project into a book. chrispiascik.com Mat Pringle (Purple Rain cover illustration) is a London-based illustrator and printmaker. His zine The Film One, in which artists illustrate and write about their favorite movies, was featured in Flavorwire’s “Amazing Illustrated Zines for Every Mood and Obsession.” matpringle.co.uk Issue #4: Kids' Movies
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Keith Allison is an amateur film historian whose blog Teleport City has existed since 1993. Largely a chronicle of obscure Asian cinematic treasures, the site also includes writing on music, books, food, and travel. teleport-city.com // Also in: #3 Jon Cross has produced an independent feature film along with several short films, acted, composed film scores, and recorded several albums with his sometime band The Crowd That Entertains and his new pairing O + N. aftermoviediner.blogspot.com Sabra Embury is the editor of Troika Moonshine 300, a flash fiction journal. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Nanofiction, Maintenant, and My Name is Mud. Sabra lives in Los Angeles. these-three-things.blogspot.com Alex Falcone is the host of Read it and Weep, a podcast about bad books, movies, and television. He is the founder of the stand-up program at ComedySportz in Portland, where he teaches and performs. alexfalconecomedy.com / read-weep.com Alan Gamboa and Sophie Donkin are husband and wife and live in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Watching bad movies together is a cornerstone of their relationship. Alan is also in: #1, 2, 3 Matt Koff is a New York-based writer and comedian whose work has appeared on the Onion News Network, Comedy Central, the Game Show Network, and Cinemax. He co-writes and co-voices the award-winning animated web series 9am Meeting. mattkoff.com // Also in: #3 Stephen Neary (Return to Oz cover illustration) works as a story artist at Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age 3, Rio). He also writes and directs his own hand-animated shorts, including Let’s Make Out, the award-winning Chicken Cowboy, and the upcoming Dr. Breakfast. stephenneary.blogspot.com Lauren Reid is a geeky girl who got hooked on bad movies in college. She is a web content producer and interactive consultant in New York. laurenreid.net Jay Ruttenberg is a former music critic at Time Out New York and editor of The Lowbrow Reader, a small comedy journal. A Lowbrow Reader book, The Lowbrow Reader Reader, will be published in 2012 by Drag City. lowbrowreader.com Kriota Willberg teaches anatomy, pathology, and massage techniques to dancers, artists, massage therapists, teachers, and athletes. Her blog examines medical themes through the lens of Hollywood films. Kriota also draws, needlepoints, and performs about body-oriented sciences. thecinematologist.blogspot.com Issue #3: Visions of the Future
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Michael Adams is a movie reviewer whose writing has appeared in Rolling Stone, FHM, Empire, and Wordy Mofo. His book Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies: A Film Critic’s Year-Long Quest to Find the Worst Movie Ever Made is one of our favorites. wordymofo.com Byron Case is an imprisoned writer from Kansas City. His work appears in zines, glossies, newspapers, and the anthology Requiem for a Paper Bag, published by Simon & Schuster. thepariahssyntax.blogspot.com // Also in: #1 Matthew Glasson is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He recently adapted his short film Love Stalker into a feature-length “unromantic comedy.” matthewglasson.com / lovestalker.com Christian Gridelli is a Chicago filmmaker and a film and pop culture enthusiast. His films channel that enthusiasm into a range of character-driven, physical, and analytical comedy. dimestorefilms.com / nevermindthebolex.com // Also in: #2 Dan Israeli is a Queens native and contributor to the sports blog Bleacher Report. He is a reporter for a legal publication and a freelance music writer. Joseph Kirkland is an apprentice editor living in Los Angeles. He also writes insightful analysis about current films and other entertainment industry phenomena. bittentongue.com // Also in: #1, 2 Sara Reiss is an artist and graphic designer in Queens, New York. Her clients have included The Audobon Society, The New York Times, and Oxford University. saradani.com Ned Vizzini was a writer of young adult fiction based in New York and Los Angeles. His quasi-autobiographical novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story was adapted into a motion picture by Focus Features. He is missed by all who knew and enjoyed him and his work. nedvizzini.com Issue #2: Love, Sex, & Friendship
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Mark Burrier (cover artist) is a Virginia-based illustrator and cartoonist. His comic Noose was nominated for an Ignatz Award. markburrier.com Lucas Chute is a painter and illustrator living and working in Brooklyn. His work can be found on beer bottles, LPs, sidewalks, theater doors, and canvas. lucaschuteart.com Rumsey Taylor is a Boston web designer, a co-editor of the film blog Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and co-host of the monthly New York film series of the same name. notcoming.com Issue #1: The Beginning
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Leah Hayes (Cover illustration) leahhayes.com Sarah Marshall ruth-the-sleuth.livejournal.com Alex Smith redchinamagazine.com Ben Shapiro Anja Verdugo (Shrooms comic) clevernettle.com Scott White |