Free Art Books!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made 502 art books free and available online for your enjoyment!
Tiny, Adorable Robots
German first graders perform Kraftwerk’s “Die Roboter” while wearing cardboard robot costumes.
Interview with Sara Alfageeh
Though Sara Alfageeh is a talented artists, “This Sara Alfageeh interview has nothing to do with comics!” Instead she talks Game of Thrones with the MNT.
Moonbeams and Miniskirts
Some years ago, a trio of colorful, contemplative, and sometimes a little bit absurd science fiction films from East German studio DEFA found their way onto home video in the United States. Of them, The Silent Star was the most beloved thanks to its combination of serious speculation […]
“The Birth of the Queer T-Shirt”
Jonathan Katz writes about the power of activist drag: “[F]rom our current vantage point, the advent of sloganeering clothing seems vastly less of a defining break with the past than in fact it was. Queer fashion once spoke sotto voce to insiders, at once defining membership in a […]
“Past is Prologue: Captain Marvel and The Long Kiss Goodnight”
“When the first trailer for Captain Marvel dropped I had a frisson of deja vu. It wasn’t due to the image of the Blockbuster Video logo on the building she crash lands into, I have no love for the chain that slowly destroyed all the genuinely interesting mom […]
The Cultural Gutter 