Wayne Barlowe's Aliens
The Internet Archive has Barlowe’s Guide To Extraterrestrials, and you can look at it here!
Something to Sing About
With friends hovering within sight of wrapping up secondary school, leaving home, and heading to university, Anna (Ella Hunt) has decided to let uni wait a year while she backpacks Australia. She is working extra hours at the local bowling alley to pay for the ticket; she has […]
"The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords"
Alex Pappademas writes about “The Decade Comic Book Nerds became Our Cultural Overlords”: “The reason all this should worry you, even if you have zero investment in superhero movies or their relative position vis-a-vis film culture as a whole, is that the response to Scorsese is a populist […]
"H. P. Lovecraft's Monster Drawings"
Open Culture has some of Lovecraft’s illustrations of his hideous creations. View them at risk to your sanity here.
How do you Solve a Problem Like a Werewolf?
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should, and I feel like that goes double when you’re creating a monster. There are so many tools available now to film the transformation of a person into an unholy creature of the night, and yet some of […]
"When Empathy comes from the Last Place You'd Expect."
At Polygon, Eirik Gumeny writes about Red Dead Redemption 2 and life with a terminal illness. “I actually learned to avoid characters I might relate to when I was growing up with cystic fibrosis, as they never seemed to exist as people. They were instead used as props, […]
