100 Years of Censorship
Silent Toronto‘s Eric Veillette takes a look at censorship and the Ontario Censor Board from 1911 till now.
Dreadful Thoughts
As an adult, my strongest impressions of horror have come from comics. My childhood ones are almost exclusively from tv—the trailer for Magic and a misguided viewing of the beginning of Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein. But as an adult, I remember picking up the first issue of Neil Gaiman’s […]
One Podcast. Two Men. Ten Thousand Bullets.
The Projection Booth targets John Woo’s The Killer and its legacy, including an interview with Kenneth Hall, writer of John Woo: The Films.
Samuel Delany on Racism and Science Fiction
In the 1998 New York Times Review of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany writes about the history of African-American writers of science fiction, race and racism in science fiction and why Octavia Butler might wonder, “Why, when you invite me, do you always invite that guy, Delany?”
Rohrshach vs. Alan Moore
Rohrshach has discovered a new conspiracy, a plan to ensure that no one watches The Watchmen. (Via Forbidden Planet International)
Gurney, Frazetta… and Kinkade??
In the department of “why did I not know about this?”: James Gurney talks about working on Fire & Ice with Frank Frazetta (and Thomas Kinkade too apparently). Update: Gurney and Kinkade were into gruesome pranks…
The Cultural Gutter 