Thomas Pynchon Archives

Billy Bat: Urusawa's Postmodern Comics Masterpiece Coming Next June
That's the common thread that Urusawa and Alan Moore share in their stories, along with the Thomas Pynchon influence of merging History with Pop Culture to examine the leylines of political systems It's also a look at how a Japanese comics creator might view American comics and culture. Billy Bat Vol 1 (the first of 20)[...]
Joaquin Phoenix As Doc S… In Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice
Paul Thomas Anderson's seventh film is the first adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel Its the story set in the late 60's about a private detective named Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) who gets mixed up in a caper involving his ex-girlfriend (Katherine Waterston) and a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer (Eric Roberts) Also[...]