The Gotham Times
It’s The Gotham Times, promotional but still neat.
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
Love and Change-bots
Comic artist Jeffrey Brown’s badly cropped on SexTV, but the interview is still worth seeing. And while we’re at it, see him transform like an Incredible Change-bot in a Washington Post interview at the 2007 Small Press Book Expo.
“The Easter Bunny Is Eating My Candy”
Is it ever too late for a horror short about the Easter Bunny? (An alternate link)
“Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory”
Michael Chabon traces the secret origins of the superhero costume in Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory, in which he proposes “a fundamental truth: like the being who wears it, the superhero costume is, by definition, an impossible object. It cannot exist.”
It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
There’s a scene at the end of the film of Jane Austen’s Persuasion (the Ciaran Hines version, natch) that I love. In it, the hero holds out his hand, and the heroine takes it. That’s it, just two people holding hands. What makes it so powerful is what […]
Momotaro Kicks Up Against Mickey
Mickey Mouse attacks and Japanese characters fight back. But in this cartoon, Momotaro might be using the master’s tools to tear down the master’s house. (Thanks, Heather!)
The Cultural Gutter 