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.
Interview With a Writer
Romance readers go through a lot of books. We’re somewhat spoiled by Nora Roberts’s amazing ability to produce five or six new novels every year. She’s an outlier, of course, but Romance readers are voracious, and very vocal about delays. Publishers have learned to recognize and even harness […]
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.”
The Cultural Gutter 