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.”
Adam Knave answers a question a lot of comics readers have been asking lately, “Why aren’t there more women in comics?” : “[T]he industry has a history of actively trying to throw out half the population’s worth of potential. And then asking why they aren’t there, punching them […]
In The Cat and the Coup you are a cat, specifically Mohammed Mossadegh’s cat. Who was he? The first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown in a CIA-funded coup . The game looks like Persian miniatures. It has music by Nine Inch Nails. And it’s […]
Unofficial, Unsanctioned, Unsolicited–Colleen Coover’s “Superman’s Ex-Girlfriend Lana Lang!”
Do you love crayon drawings and animation? Do you love ponies and unicorns? Do you love Ponycorns even more because they are ponies AND unicorns? Play Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure, a game completed in 48 hours are part of, TOJam, a Toronto indie game jam.
For reasons of personal safety, please take time to review these Entrances to Hell in the UK. (Thanks, Steven!)
ComicbookGRRRL writes about the history of Catwoman and the hypersexualization of a sexual woman: “At first glance, the cover of the upcoming Catwoman #1 may not be seen as terribly out of place for a character who is so openly sexual and enjoys revelling in the power she […]
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