Archive of Tony Shea ( Editor-in-Chief, New York)

Tony Shea is based in New York, having recently moved from Los Angeles after more than a decade on the sunny coast. His short films have won numerous awards and screened at major festivals around the world including Comic-Con. As a musician, he is the lead singer for Los Angeles rock n’ roll band Candygram For Mongo (C4M) candygramformongo.com who has been a featured artist on Clear Channel Radio’s Discover New Music Program and whose songs have been heard on Battlestar Gallactica (Syfy Channel) and Unhitched (Fox) among other shows and films.

Tony has contributed 236 brilliant piece(s).


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Country-Punk Legend Mike Ness Turns 52

by Tony Shea April 3, 2015

Mike Ness, frontman and lead guitarist for SoCal punkers Social Distortion, turns 52 today. For 37 years now Ness has been belting it out with his unmistakably ragged voice, becoming one of America’s greatest purveyors of rock and roll along the way. Part Johnny Cash and part Joey Ramone, Ness is a country-punk pioneer who […]

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The Ten Best AC/DC Songs

by Tony Shea March 31, 2015

The truly great Angus Young turns 60 today. Listed by Rolling Stone as the 24th greatest guitarist of all time, Young has been the primo ax-man for Aussie rockers AC/DC for more than forty years, clad perpetually in his schoolboy outfit and throwing down a series of legendary riffs that have penetrated the collective unconscious.

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The Frist Day of Spring – New York Style [PHOTOS]

by Tony Shea March 21, 2015

Ah the first day of Spring! Birdsong fills the air, dogs playfully catch frisbees as neighbors gather for a friendly barbecue, and the warm smell of blooming flowers tickles your nose. Glorious! Unless March has not received the message, which is this case it obviously has not. Instead we here in New York were greeted […]

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ART OF THE DAY – The Drip

by Tony Shea March 20, 2015

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Bruce Willis – Five Best Films

by Tony Shea March 19, 2015

Bruce Willis turns 60 today. In a career spanning thirty years, Willis has appeared in more than sixty films, earning more than $5 billion dollars worldwide. Along the way, Willis has become a bald icon, finding success in a number of genres including: comedy and drama, as well as science fiction and action for which […]

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The Bronx Riviera – in Winter (Orchard Beach) [PHOTOS]

by Tony Shea February 15, 2015

This winter is starting to suck, I said to myself. I’m sick of being cooped up inside like a prisoner, I thought. What would I be doing back in LA right about now, I asked myself. And then the answer came to me. I would be at the beach! Damn straight I would. And hell, […]

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The City Trip – 7 – The Shadow and the Light (24 Panel Progression)

by Tony Shea February 7, 2015
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Lucy – PPV Roundup

by Tony Shea January 24, 2015

Lucy is absolutely awesome. Having earned nearly $500 million at the worldwide box office by now, the most recent offering from writer/director Luc Besson to hit Pay-Per-View is non-stop fun, a thrill-ride that doesn’t let up, escalating its essential awesomeness until the screen abruptly goes black. Along the way, the audience is treated to a […]

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The New Arrivals (PHOTO STUDY)

by Tony Shea December 19, 2014
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Philip K. Dick – His Best 5 Books

by Tony Shea December 16, 2014

Philip K. Dick would have been 86 years old today. He was one of the great visionary science fiction writers of the 20th century, and published forty-four novels during his highly decorated and award-winning career. Dick was nominated five times for the Nebula Award, won the John W. Campbell Award for his novel Flow My […]

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Fat Drunk and Bipolar – Review – “A”

by Tony Shea December 14, 2014

Lynn Bryan Johnson’s Fat Drunk and Bipolar is a memoir that reads like Dennis Johnson’s (no relation) Jesus’s Son if it were written by Billie Letts of Where the Heart Is fame, which is to say that is a brass tacks “recovery” story that manages to achieve a kind of joy through sorrow, elevated by […]

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Mood Organ (Progression of 8 Panels)

by Tony Shea November 24, 2014

In the old days, when I was still painting on canvas with brushes, I would often paint over  an image numerous times, sometimes over a period of years, working through a number of progressions. Sometimes the paint would be two inches thick when I was done. This  had less to do with the artistic process […]

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In Praise of Terry Gilliam (Top 5 Films)

by Tony Shea November 21, 2014

Tomorrow we celebrate the 74th birthday of the great Terry Gilliam. One of the most unusual filmmakers in the history of cinema, Gilliam’s work through the years has been nothing short of astonishing, a wild ride down the rabbit hole of the imagination of a singular genius that fuses science fiction, fantasy, and fairy tale, exploring […]

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