The only diploma that E.C. SEGAR (1884-1938) ever earned was from a correspondence cartooning class; but he was every bit as dedicated to his...

Like one of my HiLo Heroes, Jean-Luc Godard (profiled previously on HiLobrow), I came to film through criticism. I started writing about it in...

This book-shaped object is a Tabloid-brand medicine box, manufactured by the British pharmaceuticals company Burroughs Wellcome & Co. During the early 20th century, the...

TOM WAITS (born 1949) turns sixty today — and it’s not his fault that NPR wants to stick a bronze plaque on him and...

Just don’t call them cute. Gemutlichkeit is not what they are – these faceless creatures support the full weight of Utopia on their Bézier...

You suffer from severe anterograde amnesia; you are trapped, forever, at the end of 1955. Your memory of the events up to that point...

The problem is art is BORING. It just sits there. What’s wrong with a little entertainment? It needs some livening up, some relevance, some...

Presenting Georges Méliès’ Les cartes vivantes, a short, fey film by the maker of Le voyage dans la lune. Méliès was a magician before...