{"id":4425,"date":"2017-04-28T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2017-05-03T23:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T23:30:22","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-j-david-spurlock-about-margaret-brundage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4425","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews J. David Spurlock about Margaret Brundage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark and co-host\u00a0Pilleater<\/a>\u00a0talk to\u00a0J. David Spurlock<\/a>\u00a0about his book The Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage<\/a>. He is an award-winning author, historian, educator, advocate for artists\u2019 rights, documentary filmmaker, and editor of\u00a0Vanguard Productions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Background as a comic artist and his shift from comics to books on the careers of artist including\u00a0AL WILLIAMSON SKETCHBOOK<\/a>
\nTeaching art at The University of Texas at Arlington<\/a>, the Joe Kubert School<\/a>\u00a0for Comic Art, and the School of Visual Arts<\/a> in New York
\nThe Alluring Art of Margaret Brundage: Queen of Pulp Pin-Up Art<\/a>
\nFirst Fandom<\/a>, the early science fiction community
\nThe Pulp Genre which predates comics
\nThe Pulp Magazine\u00a0Weird Tales<\/a>,\u00a0which published Brundage’s work as well as other artist including H.P. Lovecraft
\nPAINTINGS OF J ALLEN ST JOHN PB: Grand Master of Fantasy<\/a>
\nHow Brundage was a very mysterious figure and there was very little known about her
\nJ. David Spurlock’s journey investigating Brundage’s life and interviewing the few people left who knew her
\nHer husband Slim Brundage who was a leftist radical
\nTheir protest against WWI which was illegal at the time
\nThe\u00a0Bughouse Square Debates<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Dil Pickle Club<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago
\nHobo culture and involvement with the Wobblies<\/a> (Industrial Workers of the World<\/a>)
\nCensorship, controversies about the sexual nature of Brundage’s art, and rumors spread about her
\nHow there were hardly any women illustrating pulps at the time
\nThe\u00a0Chicago Black Renaissance<\/a>
\nThe Federal Government’s work program for opening art centers and the South Side Community Art Center<\/a>\u00a0which is the only surviving one
\nThe effects of McCarthyism on Brundage and her friendship with\u00a0Paul Robeson<\/a>
\nJ David Spurlock’s point that things Brundage was considered a radical for are things we take for granted today
\nBrundage’s\u00a0connection to Walk Disney
\nMTV’s review of the book<\/a>\u00a0stating “her story could be the basis for a great Hollywood film” and\u00a0The Village Voice<\/a>\u00a0naming it one of the best graphic novels of 2013
\nScience Fiction artist\u00a0Frank Frazetta<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Conan the Barbarian<\/a>
\nJ David Spurlock’s pilot for a reality show called “Franzetta Girls”<\/p>\n

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