(The following article appeared in slightly different form in the November 2011 issue of This Land Magazine. The subject, the late artist Joe Brainard, was one of a close-knit group of ambitious young Oklahomans who traveled to New York at the beginning of the 1960s to join the burgeoning East Coast experimental arts scene called [...]

From Marvel’s upcoming X-Club #1…

whose credits include an editor, a group editor and an editor in chief, plus a writer and letterer…

a little joke rendered even smaller by a lack of professional care:

Hack movie director William Beaudine probably summed it up best when he reportedly said, “You mean someone out there is actually waiting to [...]