Tips
Making an indie videogame? Some advice about graphics, starting with this basic tip: “If you are a programmer and can only make squares, make a game that uses squares as graphics. It worked for Tetris and it can work for you.”
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
Giant Critters, So Tasty!
“In early ’90s Japan, mobs of hungry primeval men hunted gigantic prehistoric creatures in a series of fanciful ‘Cup Noodle’ commercials featuring stop-motion animation by Kim Blanchette.” And Pink Tentacle has video!
Repent for Free!
Read 61 pages of post-Rapture Chicago with a Raven and a Mummy from Therefore, Repent!, a graphic novel written by the Gutter’s founding editor and former Evil Overlord, Jim Munroe.
Going All the Way with Beowulf
Are you geeky? Geeky enough to enjoy Beowulf in any form? Geeky enough to hear it recited in Old English? Geeky enough to watch Benjamin Bagby accompany his recitation with the Anglo-Saxon lyre? Dang, I’m impressed! Thanks to Greg Kamiya and his Salon essay, Beowulf vs. The Lord […]
A Fine Pursuit: Loretta Chase
Some months back I wrote a column about Georgette Heyer, who re-imagined Jane Austen’s Regency era and popularized it for modern audiences. The Regency period, 1811-1820, refers to the years of King George III’s insanity, when his son, the Prince of Wales, was Regent of England in his […]
Stardust Returns
“Almost like a crazy person is holding the pencil.” My God, Mike Allred has created a comic featuring Fletcher Hanks’ disturbing and punitive hero Stardust. (Thanks to Again With The Comics)
The Cultural Gutter 