Scott Pilgrim Trailer
“13 Ways of Looking at the Scott Pilgrim Movie Trailer.” (Guess Carol’s not the only one who likes Wallace Stevens).
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.”
Les Aventures de Madame Merveille
Cecil Castellucci, Minx comic artist and Canadian nerdcore icon, has cut the middle brow out with her fusion of low and high art, the comics opera, Les Aventures de Madame Merveille. See it in Montreal with art from Pascal Girard, Michael Cho, Scott Hepburn and Cameron Stewart.
Hal Jordan’s Package Flying Through Space
There’s always controversy in comics fandom around how female characters are drawn or sculpted. Karen equalizes things with some equivalently fan service covers, featuring Hal Jordan’s package flying through space, for the ladies and gentlemen who prefer gentlemen. (via Paiwingz)
Nak Prok’s Shadow
Wise Kwai reviews, Shadow of the Naga / Nak Prok, and talks a little about the film’s legal problems and the fear of a Buddhist backlash.
Ia Ftaghn! It’s the Cult of Cthulhu!
Venger Satanis discusses spreading the green ichor of the Cult of Cthulhu throughout the world.
There’s a cephalopod with a naginata.
The Japan City in New York City has posted a gallery of images from their current exhibition, “Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.” There’s a cephalopod with what looks like a naginata. There are samurai and a giant skeleton. If you can’t make it to the […]
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