Every April at the Gutter, the editors write about something outside their usual domains. This month, Comics Editor Carol Borden writes about stars of action cinema. I like ladies of asskickery, women who can throw a punch or wield a sharp pointy weapon, preferably both. Since it’s April […]
Every April at the Gutter, the editors write about something outside their usual domains. This month Comics Editor Carol Borden writes about movies. ~~~ This is not even close to a full retrospective, because while Minoru Kawasaki doesn’t have a huge number of films, many of them are […]
Don Draper sits at a bar next to a man reading Frank O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency. He asks about the book and is blown off by the man who sees him as square. Fisherprof thinks about “What Frank O’Hara Tells Us about Don Draper.”
“For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise … and step into the shadow now without complaint.” –Rohrshach’s journal (Alan Moore, Watchmen) I read Watchmen as many people do, without knowing the comics history Moore invoked. In a story that begins as a superhero […]
Pornokitsch traces Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Person from his first appearance in 1906, through a radio and tv series to a comic book adaptation from Moonstone.
An excellent gallery of images and collections, as well as historical context on 100 years of Korean comics.
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