Social History in Comics
Out Of This World has an excellent series of articles examining African-American characters in mainstream comics, with scans for Two-Fisted Tales, Blazing Combat and Sgt. Rock plus, a nice look at Misty Knight.
Who’s That? Brown: The Video Game
Das Racist’s awesome bit-art video for “Who’s That? Brown” is also a game you can play! (Thanks, John!)
Slashing Cinema
Wendell Jamieson writes about Japanese sword fight films for The New York Times: “I recently asked my sensei, then and now, Noboru Kataoka — himself an actor who goes as Ken Kensai — to name the greatest sword fight film of them all, and he answered, The Sword […]
Women in Horror Month
February is Women In Horror Month and Seth Metoyer at More Horror.com celebrates by interviewing Jen Soska, who, together with her sister, Sylvie, made Dead Hooker in a Trunk.
New Fewdio Short
Our good friends at Fewdio have a new horror short up, “Neighbors.”
A Salute to Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
Cartoonist Tim Jackson has gathered together a meticulously amazing collection of cartoons and comics strips by cartoonists of color. He includes an extensive index of cartoonist, cartoon and character names as well as galleries of gag cartoons, strips, editorial cartoons and sports cartoons from the 1920s through the […]
The Cultural Gutter 