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The Cultural Gutter

Thoughtful Writing About Disreputable Art

Fish Out of (Pasta) Water in Gabriele Mainetti’s ‘The Forbidden City’ (2025)

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on April 2, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Pow! Kids with Guns and the SOV Surrealism of Hawk Jones (1986)

By Michelle on March 26, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Relax and Enjoy the Mystery: Deadloch and How to Get to Heaven From Belfast

By Critterlab on March 19, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

“Remember Quick that Life is Death”: Mother of Flies (2025)

By Carol on March 12, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

Madeline Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s ‘Honey Bunch’ Tries and Tries Again

By Sachin Hingoo (he|him|his) on March 5, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Blood Pact: Exploring SOV Director Glenn Andreiev’s Infatuation with the Vampire Mythos

By Michelle on February 26, 2026 • ( 1 Comment )

More Killer Jellies!

By Guttersnipe on December 15, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

“When jellyfish populations run wild, they may jam thousands of square miles with their pulsating, gelatinous bodies…” Arm yourself with knowledge! Also, pictures!

Mainlining the Xmas Spirit

By Guttersnipe on December 13, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

CSI: North Pole? Christmas cards starring a disturbed Santa and Chad Vader? Blame Society Productions mainlines the Xmas spirit.

Bettie Page Is Dead

By Guttersnipe on December 12, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Bettie Page is dead, but she won’t ever really be gone.  There’s an obituary and remembrances at her website. 

Nobody Dies: The Eternal Return of LEGO Batman

By Carol on December 11, 2008 • ( 4 Comments )

I’ve written before that I was put off superhero comics by all the dying and resurrected X-Men—the eternal return and the attempts to escape it. You might have noticed that DC and Marvel’s superhero titles have become a bloodbath. Sure, it started it with big crossovers and the […]

Crocheted Dalek Doom!

By Guttersnipe on December 10, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

Crochet your own dalek with amdown’s pattern–or planetjune’s modifications–force humans to hollow out the earth so you can drive it around the universe. Daleks conquer and destroy!

The Atlas of True Names

By Guttersnipe on December 8, 2008 • ( 1 Comment )

They may say they are inspired by Tolkien, but it looks like a lark, of an etymological nature, to me! The Atlas of True Names converts place names into their original meanings. It’s like a whole different world.

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The Cultural Gutter is a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. The site is updated every Thursday afternoon. Carol Borden, Sachin Hingoo, Alex MacFadyen, Beth Watkins, and Michelle Kisner probe science fiction, draw out the best in comics, stare deeply into the screen, sink their fangs into horror, dally with romance, speedrun their brains on videogames, grapple with wrestling, and explore so much more. Our Guest Stars shine here. Thanks to Gutter aesthetic director Brian Kirby for all his swank art. Thanks to EJ Lee for providing the fantastic art we used in the Cultural Gutter book. The Cultural Gutter's signature nail polishes, "Disreputable," and, "Disreputable 2: Hellcat," were created by Andrea Evans of MPZ Cosmetics. MPZ Cosmetics also teamed up with Dill McKinley to recreate the classic fragrance, Cornichon by Dill McKinley for Gutterthon 2021. Follow us on Bluesky, Facebook, and Mastodon. We do not accept unsolicited pitches.

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