Russian Avante-Garde Design
Abebooks has a gorgeous gallery of Russian Avant Garde book cover illustration from the end of the Czarist era through the 1930s.
A Hero Dies 50,000 Deaths!
In chanbara, Japanese sword-fighting movies, actor Seizo Fukumoto is a master of the art of dying. Anthony Kuhn interviews him about his life dying on screen. “In a trademark move, Fukumoto is dealt a fatal blow, then bends over backward, seemingly suspended in midair for a moment of […]
“Why, Hello There, Citizen!”
All 14 of the guest star window cameos from the Batman tv series. (via Mike White)
On Wonder Woman and Amazons
Kelly Thompson and Colin Smith offer two related criticisms of Wonder Woman #7. Thompson asks, “Is the Destruction of the Amazons the Destruction of Feminism in DC Comics?” And Smith writes, “Of all of the flak fired up to obscure the mean-spirited, thick-headed sexism of Brian Azzarello’s script […]
3 Reviews of The Hunger Games
In three reviews, Miguel Rodriguez, Peter Gutierrez and Darren Franich consider what was missing from the film’s adaptation of The Hunger Games book–poverty, class and complicity to start.
Two from Book View Cafe
More great stuff on Book View Cafe: a long piece by Ursula K. Le Guin about books and ebooks, and a continuing series by Stephen Harper Piziks on current life in high school, this time with advice for YA writers about texting: “Even if you, a card-carrying old […]
The Cultural Gutter 