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.”
British actress Elisabeth Sladen has died. She is probably most famous for her portrayal of Sarah Jane Smith, companion to the 3rd and 4th Doctors in Doctor Who and star of her own series K-9 and Company and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Here is her first appearance as […]
Dragonriders of Pern as a live action film? Looks like it might happen.
“The true beauty of Sakai’s work in Usagi Yojimbo isn’t just his cartooning (which is very good) or his writing (which is refreshingly to the point). It’s how Sakai manages to take things we’re used to, things that are considered rote or mundane, and make them compelling simply […]
Ten minute mini-documentary about women in comics and the Toronto Koffler Centre exhibit, “Graphic Detail: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women” featuring artists Sarah Lightman, Nina Bunjevac and Gutter friend Shannon Gerrard. (via @BlackComix)
The New Yorker writes about George R. R. Martin, his fans, his angry fans, his fantasy epic, A Song of Fire and Ice, the upcoming HBO series based on it, and his next book, A Dance of Dragons, six years in the writing: “I’m living the dream here. […]
Reporting live from the Shire, Peter Jackson records his first videoblog from the set of The Hobbit. (Thanks, Drew!)
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