Exhorting Japan!
1930s Japan gets with the Social Realist program with exhortational posters!
Carol
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
Retrofit Consumer Electronics
What if a time traveler took technology from today back to 1977? Enjoy your Pocket HiFi. (thanks, Humash!)
Wonder Woman in Pants
Wonder Woman would’ve also had pants in Joss Whedon’s version. But if she has to have spurs, I’m a sucker for this cowgirl version with invisible pony. (And, following Chris Sims, could go with a Fistful of Dollars poncho).
Alien vs. Ninja
400 years ago ninjas fought an alien, or possibly aliens. Alien vs. Ninja.
Beasts of Burden preview
Read it now–a 22 page, Dark Horse authorized preview of Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s gritty, animal comic, Beasts of Burden.
1:1 Gundam
1:1 Gundam almost done in Shizuoka, Japan.
The Cultural Gutter 