Cello Version of the Steven Universe Theme Song
Aubrey Webber of the Doubleclicks performs the Steven Universe theme song. (via Geek Girl Con)
Loser City’s 100 Best Comics of the 2010s (So Far)
Loser City has a sweet list of “The 100 Best Comics of the First Half of the 2010s” in multiple parts. See part I here and part II there. Check back at Loser City for the final forty picks.
Soviet Erotic Alphabet
Bturn has a gallery of images from a Soviet picture book in which naked people form the letters of the cyrillic alphabet. “The fascinating scans come from an alphabet picture book published around 1931, allegedly to fight widespread illiteracy across the vast Soviet territories. It was drawn by […]
“Goodbye to Japan’s Manga King”
At The Daily Beast, Jake Adelstein writes about comic creator and folklore scholar Shigeru Mizuki, the astounding breadth of Mizuki’s work and Mizuki’s challenge to revisionist history. “Mizuki rose to fame through his popular comics, but starting in the seventies, he created a variety of controversial works which […]
Glitched-Out Rugs
Colossal has a gallery of Faig Ahmed’s amazing rugs. “Faig Ahmed distorts the patterns of traditional Azerbaijani rugs, dimantling their structure in order to build compositions that trick the eye by appearing to melt off the wall. By rearticulating the original design, he creates contemporary sculptural forms that look […]
On Outraging Batman’s Dignity
There is a multiplicity of Batmans from the grim and gritty Dark Knight currently on film, Adam West’s swinging Batman from the 1960s Batman television show, Frank Miller’s Goddamn Batman, the Batmans of the DC Animated Universe tilted more towards adults and the ones geared for all ages, […]
The Cultural Gutter 