I picked up Emily Flake’s Lulu Eightball collection at the Buffalo Small Press Fair and I couldn’t be happier. Desperate millipedes, hammers with heft and a slanty take on our friend the observational humor comic strip. The weekly strips are here and here. Her illustration work is nice, […]
It’s The Gotham Times, promotional but still neat.
Comic artist Jeffrey Brown’s badly cropped on SexTV, but the interview is still worth seeing. And while we’re at it, see him transform like an Incredible Change-bot in a Washington Post interview at the 2007 Small Press Book Expo.
Sad news: Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer and inventor/scientist, died recently – at the age of 90, he had a full life, but it’s still a great loss. To mark his passing, I picked up my favourite of his books, Childhood’s End, and gave it a re-read. […]
Is it ever too late for a horror short about the Easter Bunny? (An alternate link)
Michael Chabon traces the secret origins of the superhero costume in Secret Skin: An essay in unitard theory, in which he proposes “a fundamental truth: like the being who wears it, the superhero costume is, by definition, an impossible object. It cannot exist.”
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The Cultural Gutter 