KCET, Southern California’s flagship PBS station and home for award-winning public media programming, announced today the return of the KCET Original Emmy award-winning arts and culture series Artbound. The thirteenth season of the documentary series kicks off with an examination of Love & Rockets, celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, and one of the first comic book series in the alternative movement of the 1980s.
The new season of Artbound will premiere with two back-to-back episodes starting with the documentary Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book on Wed., Oct. 5 at 9 p.m. PT on KCET followed by “Duchamp Comes to Pasadena” on Wed., Oct. 5 at 10:01 p.m. PT on KCET.
All six of the documentaries in the new season will also subsequently air on both PBS SoCal in Southern California and Link TV nationwide with Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book debuting Fri., Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. PT on PBS SoCal and Tues., Oct. 11 at 10 pm ET/PT on Link TV (DirecTV channel 375 / Dish Network channel 9410).
An Artbound Season 13 private Premiere Screening Event of the season’s first documentary Love & Rockets: The Great American Comic Book is slated to take place on Tues., Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Laemmle Noho 7 followed by a panel discussion with Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez along with filmmakers Omar Foglio and Jose Luis Figueroa of Dignicraft. The event is moderated by Carolina A. Miranda, arts columnist, Los Angeles Times. Reception to follow. A limited number of tickets will be available through KCET’s social media accounts on Instagram and to Love & Rockets fans via social media.
Source: Graphic Policy
