The Gotham Times
It’s The Gotham Times, promotional but still neat.
Love and Change-bots
Comic artist Jeffrey Brown’s badly cropped on SexTV, but the interview is still worth seeing. And while we’re at it, see him transform like an Incredible Change-bot in a Washington Post interview at the 2007 Small Press Book Expo.
“The Easter Bunny Is Eating My Candy”
Is it ever too late for a horror short about the Easter Bunny? (An alternate link)
“Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory”
Michael Chabon traces the secret origins of the superhero costume in Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory, in which he proposes “a fundamental truth: like the being who wears it, the superhero costume is, by definition, an impossible object. It cannot exist.”
Momotaro Kicks Up Against Mickey
Mickey Mouse attacks and Japanese characters fight back. But in this cartoon, Momotaro might be using the master’s tools to tear down the master’s house. (Thanks, Heather!)
“Violence without pretence, an endless hobgoblin holocaust”
Erik Sofge writes on roleplaying games and Gary Gygax’s legacy: “There is a way to wring real creativity, and possibly even artistic merit, from this bizarre medium—and it has nothing to do with Gygax and his tradition of sociopathic storytelling.” (Moira Redmond reports on the resulting fray).
The Cultural Gutter 