Editors of I Love Bad Movies: Kseniya Yarosh and Matt Carman
Kseniya Yarosh (Creator) is a writer, illustrator, and researcher in Brooklyn whose zines have been featured on Flavorwire and Syndicated Zine Reviews. Kseniya is a co-host of the femme-centric film podcast Bonnie and Maude, and co-presenter of the 2 Good 2 B 4Gotten film series at 92YTribeca in New York.
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Matt Carman (Co-Editor) is the author of Taken for a Ride and editor of Come on Down, two essay-filled zines about true game show experiences. He hosts movie screenings with his co-editor, gives unwarranted scholarly credence to films like Gigli and the E.T. rip-off Mac and Me, and is currently mapping the geographical setting of every prime time TV show from 1946 to the present.
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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.
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Matt Carman (Co-Editor) is the author of Taken for a Ride and editor of Come on Down, two essay-filled zines about true game show experiences. He hosts movie screenings with his co-editor, gives unwarranted scholarly credence to films like Gigli and the E.T. rip-off Mac and Me, and is currently mapping the geographical setting of every prime time TV show from 1946 to the present.
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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 Issue #5: Early & Late Roles
All contributors are listed by the latest issue in which they appeared.
For repeat contributors, past issues are also mentioned. David Archer is a publicist at Vintage Books. He has written for xoJane, the BOMBlog, and The Portland Review. As a presenter and occasional co-host for the variety show Meet the Lady, David has shared his research on the Mitford “Nemesisters” and interviewed Suspiria star Jessica Harper. vanityferal.tumblr.com Claudia Eve Beauchesne is a Brooklyn-based art critic and curator. She recently finished her masters’ thesis on the East Village art scene of the 1980s. In her free time, she makes latch-hook rugs and jogs around her neighborhood pretending to be Mariel Hemingway in Personal Best. // Also in: Issue #4 cebeauchesne@gmail.com Matt Bird is a Harlem-based screenwriter. His blog Cockeyed Caravan features underrated movies and thoughts about storytelling. If you go there, click on “Special Guest Picks” in the sidebar to find essays by some of the same writers you will find in this very magazine. cockeyedcaravan.blogspot.com // Also in: #3 Tom Blunt produces and hosts 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: #4tomblunt.com / meetthelady.tumblr.com Cristina Cacioppo is the film programmer for 92YTribeca and the creator of the not-yet-popular Netflix Member Reviews Tumblr. Her fine achievements include a Pootie Tang ten year anniversary screening and the only 35mm screening of Lady Terminator in recent memory. // Also in: #1, 2, 4 92YTribeca.org/film / netflixreviews.tumblr.com John Carman is a Pittsburgh-based communication designer, social media pirate, and the owner of Avenue Design Studios. John once recommended Lost Boys: The Thirst to Tom Savini. John blogs about what’s new so you don’t have to ask, and publishes a list of the fish he’s eaten. avenuedesignstudios.com / carmanavenue.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 Eric Epstein is a freelance animator and video artist in Brooklyn working extensively in documentaries, music videos, and web design. Eric produced and directed the video for Memory Tapes’ “Yes I Know,” nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the 54th Grammy Awards. najork.net // Also in: #2, 3 Kate Hutchinson works a desk job, but does her best to make it a nefarious desk job. She has been a regular contributor to Ultra Violent Magazine since their first issue, in order to justify her smut collection. As Tenebrous Kate, she examines everything “lurid, weird, and fantastique.” tenebrouskate.blogspot.com // Also in #4 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 Eleanor Kagan is host of The Hoot!, a music and talk show that’s part of the Radiohive Collective. She works for NPR Music, has produced digital radio channels for iHeartRadio, and hosts occasional bad movie screenings in Brooklyn. radiohive.org/hoot / eleanorkagan.wordpress.com Elliott Kalan is an Emmy-winning 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 monthly series of actually good movies. Elliott is currently campaigning to replace Andy Rooney as CBS’ resident curmudgeon. // Also in: #1, 2, 4 www.flophousepodcast.com M. Sweeney Lawless is a writer of ill repute. Her work includes music video “Check This Out” for Mighty Five and creepy séance movie Spirit Cabinet (in post). She lives and works in NYC, and can hide up to five bees secretly in her mouth. twitter.com/specky4eyes // Also in: #3, 4 Kevin Maher is an Emmy-nominated comedy writer whose work has appeared on Comedy Central and HBO. Kevin’s early embarrassing role is “Garbagio,” the masked wrestler on Nickelodeon’s U-Pick Live. lovekevin.com // Also in: #2, 3, 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 Laura Jayne Martin is a staff writer at The Smew, has been featured on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and wrote the 2008 short film Chemistry. Laura will be included in the upcoming anthology Fraudulent Artifacts. laurajaynemartin.com // Also in: #1, 4 Dan McCoy is a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is the creator of bad movie podcast The Flop House, and the animator/co-star of the award-winning short series 9am Meeting. // Also in: #1, 2, 3, 4 (An essay in every issue!) www.flophousepodcast.com / 9ammeeting.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 monthly reading series and a co-organizer of the Brooklyn Zine Fest. 1441lit.com / 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 Mary Regan is an actor-writer-artist living in New York, where she performs in improv, sketch, solo comedy, and off-off-Broadway productions. She writes and draws a mini-comic called Sainted, and creates drawings inspired by music and other obsessions. i-draw-music.tumblr.com // Also in: #4 Bob Satuloff is the former Film Editor of New York Native, former columnist (“Gaylienation”) of Christopher Street, and lyricist of the stage musical “Elmer Gantry.” He hosts “Bob’s Walk-in Drive-in,” a free neighborhood film series in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. // Also in: #3, 4 Justin Shatraw is a screenwriter living in New York. His projects in development include an animated web series with Mondo Media about an action archaeologist (The Under-Employed Adventures of Dallas Heck) and a teen sitcom about a super scientist. twitter.com/ShatrawSays // Issue #4 Jay Stern is a film and theater director and a co-founder, producer, and host of The Iron Mule Short Comedy Festival. His latest feature, The Adventures of Paul and Marian, is currently in post-production. Also in: #3, 4 adventuresofpaulandmarian.com |
Issue #4: Kids' Movies
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 with her husband, author Ned Vizzini. 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 Ezra Fox is working towards a Master’s degree in creative writing. He co-hosts Read it and Weep, performs at the Comedy Spot in Sacramento, and has written about his long term travels in Malaysia and Denmark. ezrafox.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
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 was published by It Books, a HarperCollins imprint. 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. James Jajac is an illustrator based in Long Island, New York. His portraits of famous, semi-famous, and regular people are simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. jamesjajac.com 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 is a writer of young adult fiction living in Los Angeles. His quasi-autobiographical novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story was adapted into a motion picture by Focus Features. nedvizzini.com Issue #2: Love, Sex, & Friendship
(See above issues for many more Issue #2 contributors.)
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
(See above issues for many more Issue #1 contributors.)
Bios coming soon. Leah Hayes (Cover illustration) leahhayes.com Sarah Marshall ruth-the-sleuth.livejournal.com Ben Shapiro Alex Smith redchinamagazine.com Anja Verdugo (Shrooms comic) clevernettle.com Scott White |