At Neon Harbor’s Deja View, Ed Glaser shares the history of Turkish Flash Gordon, “Baytekin Fezada Çarpışanlar.” Watch and see “perhaps the most outrageous monster ever committed to film” and find out whether Earthlings are the best kissers.
Comics Bulletin interviews friend of the Gutter Colin Smith about criticism in general and comics criticism in particular. “Despite what so many in the ever-polarising blogosphere appear to believe, criticism isn’t about delivering an opinion that the reader agrees with, or even feels comfortable with. It’s not about […]
Hi Fructose magazine has images of Bailey Henderson’s sculptures of creatures from Medieval maps.
The Toast helps you determine if you are in a high fantasy novel or a soft science fiction one.
The Gutter’s own Carol infiltrates Teleport City‘s limits to contribute to TC’s Space: 1999 series with her piece on aliens and what big jerks they are. “Space: 1999 taught me two valuable lessons. The first is that space is depressing and best represented by the color taupe. The […]
The Dartmouth College Library ahs scans of the oldest extant comic book, Rodolphe Töpffer’s “The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck” (1837). (via @SoxOnTheBrain)