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  The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Forward by Neil Gaiman

  

  openculture.com

  Film has always been a medium that seeks to entertain as well as edify, framing thrills and chills for profit, and framing compositions deserving of the label of “art.” Very often it has done both at the same time. Every casual student of the medium will, at least, admit this much. But never have the […]

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  Graphic Novels Tell the Story of David Bowie, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Jean-Michel Basquiat & Other Artists and Thinkers

  

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  If you're fascinated by certain artists and thinkers, you can learn about them from books. Anyone...

  If you're fascinated by certain artists and thinkers, you can learn about them from books. Anyone who has a significant cultural or intellectual influence on humanity sooner or later gets a biography written about them, and usually more than one. But how many get their own graphic novels? The versatility of the "comic book," long […] Graphic Novels Tell the Story of David Bowie,...

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  David Bowie's 50 greatest songs – ranked!

  

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  What more could you ask for, at this bizarre, unnerving and outlandish time, than a roundup...

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  David Bowie’s Rise as Ziggy Stardust Documented in a New 300-Page Photo Book

  

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  Great rock photographers of the seventies often captured their subjects at their moodiest, as in Pennie...

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