The Virtues of Captain America
Friend of the Gutter, Mark D. White has a new blog looking at “ethically memorable moments in Captain America’s 50+ years in comics since his Silver Age revival in 1964.” And he begins with Cap in Avengers #4 (1967)!
“Trippy Hippy Kid’s Books of the 1960s and 1970s”
It’s a little gallery of 1960s and 1970s children’s book covers and illustrations collected by Ang Wyman!
Summer Fun Time Reading ’18
It’s hot and the cottonwoods are seeding. The fluff is falling like snow and drifting in piles all over. That might make it seem like the start some kind of idyllic tale set in the West. There could be taciturn people brought together by loss and love. Or […]
Agatha Faversham’s Haunted Mansion
One of my favorite Instagram feeds is photographs of abandoned places. I’ve always been drawn to the ghosts of buildings, that residual image of what they once were that lingers around the edges after they fall to ruin. It’s almost as if you can feel it behind you […]
El Eternauta: The Library in the Sky
Our Guest star this week is Matt Finch. He writes about encountering El Eternauta ins Buenos Aires. ~~~ I saw the frogman everywhere. Always the same figure in the same pose, a diver’s mask pinched across his face, a rifle slung over his shoulder, advancing towards me. I […]
Evan Munday’s 31 (More) Days of Fright
Friend of the Gutter Evan Munday watches A Bucket of Blood (and more) as part of his effort to raise money for the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape. “So far, this horror marathon has brought us to medieval Japan, to grimy 1970s New York, and to […]
The Cultural Gutter 