Israeli SS She-Wolf Pulps
Stalags are SS She-Wolf pulp fiction. From Israel. Think I’m gonna lie down for a while.
Iron Man is Anti-Linux
So. Tony Stark is anti-Linux. Does Marvel like breaking the hearts of Iron Man fans? (Thanks, Chuck!)
You want comics? We got comics. Like, all of them.
Curious what the cover of Doom Patrol #89 (August, 1964, first appearance of The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man) looks like? Or any other comic, for that matter? Check out the bottomless treasure trove that is the Grand Comic Book Database, home to over 150,000 scanned comic book covers and counting.
Red Shirt Deaths
Ah, the internet, what we would do without distractions like Analytics According to Captain Kirk: “When Captain Kirk meets an alien woman and “makes contact” the survival rate of the red-shirted crewmen increases by 84%.”
A SHOUT GLUED TO A WALL
At one point in the essay that introduces ¡Mas! Cine Mexicano, Sensational Mexican Movie Posters 1957-1990, author Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr. quotes philosopher and art critic Eugenio d’Ors, who called movie posters “a shout glued to a wall.” As someone who works in advertising, it’s an appealing metaphor. As […]
44 YEARS OF MAD FOLD-INS
This fascinating NY Times interview with Mad Magazine artist Al Jaffee reveals the origin of the Mad Fold-In and the process Jaffee has used to create every one since 1964 (he still doesn’t use a computer). It also includes a great slideshow of Fold-Ins past and present. What, […]
The Cultural Gutter 