2. In the Portland Press Herald, Maine native Matt Enos (BFA 2012 Film) talks about expanding his long-running web series The Slim Duffy Show to film for his debut feature Battle Legends: The Legend of the Battle Master, an homage to classic kung-fu cinema. Thanks to a slightly unconventional marketing strategy—a limited release of Blu-rays distributed by SRS Releasing—Enos’s wacky characters (played mostly by himself) are reaching a wider audience, taking what started as a fun collaboration with a bunch of friends to the next level. Described as “inventive, inappropriate, funny and gross,” The Slim Duffy Show can be found on YouTube.

3. In addition to her multiple covers for The New Yorker over the past few years, Nicole Rifkin (MFA 2017 Illustration as Visual Essay) has produced impressive illustrations to accompany pieces in The Cut and The New York Times this week. For the former, Rifkin’s collage-like pieces help tell the story of a financial columnist who gets scammed out of $50,000. In the latter, her illustration is paired with a review of a new memoir, Splinters, which explores author Leslie Jamison’s conflicting identities following her divorce.

In this week’s ‘The Five,’ SVA’s talented community members are seen in such publications as ‘The New York Times,’ ‘Creative Boom’ and ‘Vulture.’

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