More Shadow Hero!
At Tor.com, Sonny Liew and Gene Lang share seven Green Turtle comic strips which take place after the events of The Shadow Hero graphic novel. (Thanks, Mark!)
So Much Dada
Open Culture has all eight issues of Dada (1971-21) and you can download them! “Edited by [Tristan] Tzara and including his manifesto in issue 3, the magazine ‘served to distinguish and define Dada in the many cities it infiltrated,’ writes the Art Institute of Chicago, ‘and allowed its […]
“Erasing the Pop Culture Scholar, One Click at a Time”
At Chronicle, Amanda Ann Klein and Kristen Warren encourage us all to read more work by pop culture scholars. “We didn’t write this to knock anyone’s hustle; to the contrary, this essay is a request for reciprocity. We just want mainstream journalists to be aware: The thoughts and […]
Cosmonaut’s Retro-Mission Patches
“The history of Soviet mission patches begins with one of space travel’s most significant achievements. In 1963, Valentina Teresknova made history as the first woman in space. Her call sign was Chayka—Seagull—and under it, she completed 48 orbits of Earth. As she did so, hidden from view, sewn onto the […]
“Long-Lost 35mm Print of Cult Film ‘Turkish Star Wars’ Rediscovered”
Friend of the Gutter Ed Glaser of Neon Harbor has found a complete 35 mm print of The Man Who Saved The World, aka, Turkish Star Wars (1982). “A 35mm print of ‘Turkish Star Wars’ is the holy grail,” says Glaser, “not just of rip-off films, but all […]
“There is no better time for Octavia Butler’s work to be adapted”
Fusion argues for adaptations of Octavia Butler’s science fiction and horror. “There is no better time for Octavia Butler’s work to be adapted. Unlike most of her contemporaries, she did not deal with robots, mechanized suits of war, or quantum physics. She eschewed these to explore aliens, mutants […]
The Cultural Gutter 