Learn how Anton Furst designed Gotham City with a deliberate mishmash and misuse of architectural styles, and how he combined them to give a sense of the Gothic, without relying on Gothic architecture. On Nov. 24, 1991, Anton Furst leaped to his death from the eighth floor of a Los Angeles car park. He was…
Visually Tim Burton is one of the most recognizable directors. Watching a Tim Burton film is like stepping into a macabre fairy tale with a mix of delightfully, deranged characters. His hellish city-scapes, abandoned amusement parks, haunted villages and houses, and creepy circuses are perfect settings for his mix of zany humor and horror. It’s…
Over thirty years ago, Tim Burton reinvented Batman. He banished all references to the camp, cult ’60s TV show which had defined the Caped Crusader with cheesy one-liners, costumes that looked like pajamas, and rubber sharks. Burton’s film is zany fun, but there is a darkness, and a nastiness that was new. The fascist, oppressive…
The Hulu documentary, Batman and Bill, revealed a shocking truth. The biggest villain in Gotham isn’t the Joker, or the Penguin, or the Riddler, but Batman’s creator himself, Bob Kane. In the years following Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939, Kane became almost as famous as the Caped Crusader himself. But Kane wasn’t the…
DC Comics has created a number of homages to cult TV shows based on their characters. Batman ’66, was a continuation of the Adam West TV series in comic book form, while Wonder Woman ’77 did the same for Lynda Carter’s classic Seventies TV show. Both these comic book runs were well-received, and it seemed that…