“Cured of Being a Tomboy”
Sleestak explores those strange girls in comics, tomboys from Romance comics to Disney.
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
“I’m a sucker for a girl with a metallic lower jaw”
Metal mandibles and elongating limbs–it’s the Top Ten Sexiest Comic Book Robots! (by Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery‘s Evan Munday)
Crochet Hypberbolics and the Nubbly Universe
At The Institute for Figuring, Dr. Donna Taimina brings “abstract mathematics into the realm of tactile experience” with her crocheted models of hyperbolic space. (Model galleries are along the sidebar).
Battlefield Asia
Looking for movies that combine big battles with the pain of Chinese history? How about: The Warlords, with Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro; the rape-free Mongol, with Tadanobu Asano as Temujin/Genghis Khan; An Empress and the Warriors, with Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen and Leon Lai; and […]
The Pathos of Dave Sim
Tired Fairy discusses why she doesn’t want to talk with Dave Sim about his gender beliefs at Sequential Tart. And it’s not just that he’s kind of, well, sad.
Appropriate Technology for Making Monsters
In this clip seems like Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze have been up to awesome with their film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are.
The Cultural Gutter 