This week, Zohran Mamdani won the race to become the next mayor of New York City in one of the nation’s most closely watched elections. A Democratic socialist who campaigned alongside Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew...
Good afternoon, comics fans! Welcome to issue #6 of RVA Mag’s Comics X-Change, piping hot off the press and now with a holofoil variant just for you. A lot is going on the next couple weeks for us in comics-land, and in the beautiful not-so-underground that is Netflix. As if we weren’t packed as it was, I was parking my car in front of Alpha...
For Richmond, 2018 is a time for us to come together to understand not only the present we live in, but the ways in which the past has influenced us. The Virginia Museum Of History & Culture is doing just that with their most recent installation, Fresh Paint: Murals Inspired By The Story Of Virginia. Armed with their creativity, ten Virginia...
Not too many comic book heroes have an origin story as wild as "half-demon who was summoned to Earth by Nazi occultists." But then again, Hellboy isn’t like most comic book heroes-- and his creator, Mike Mignola, isn’t like most comic book creators. Best known for the Hellboy franchise, Mike Mignola flew into town earlier this week to talk to...
Not too many comic book heroes have an origin story as wild as "half-demon who was summoned to Earth by Nazi occultists." But then again, Hellboy isn’t like most comic book heroes-- and his creator, Mike Mignola, isn’t like most comic book creators. Best known for the Hellboy franchise, Mike Mignola flew into town earlier this week to talk to...
Good afternoon, comics fans! Welcome to another edition of RVA Comics X-Change, your biweekly go-to spot for comics and pop culture. This week, instead of getting you the best recommendations for the next two weeks, we decided to make a pit stop at VA Comicon, which took place last weekend, and give you the lowdown on what you missed. Housed at...
*This article originally appeared in RVA Mag #34, on the streets now at all your favorite spots. “The tension is there, but it is a good tension,” said street artist George “Mars” Kalapov as we toured Art Eye, the gallery he works from in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. “There is energy: not like a constrained energy, not constrained by...
Welcome back, comic fans, to issue four of Comics X-Change! Your only bi-weekly, go-to news source for what's happening in comics and pop culture. The weather is cooling down quick, which means it is finally the time for cozy fires and stacks of books to read under a thousand blankets. This week I got to speak to Phillip Hills, owner of long...
The Board of Trustees governing the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced today that they will be repatriating a painting from their collection that was looted by top Nazi Reich official Herman Göring in 1940. The painting, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Nicholas of Tolentino and Sebastian, was taken from the Goudstikker Gallery...
Swiss muralist BustArt has landed in Richmond, and his latest pop graffiti mural sits at the intersection of E Franklin St and N 18th St in Shockoe Bottom. Searching out a shady spot on the sidewalk during Richmond’s 85-degree heat, he sighed from relief on a break from working the wall. “Too hot for a Swiss guy,” he said. For the past few weeks,...
