“The Twenty Stages of Reading”
Cartoonist Lynda Barry shares her “20 Stages of Reading” in as many panels.
Old Crime Photos in a New Context
Marc Hermann superimposes historic NY Daily News crime photos onto contemporary photos of the same locations. (Thanks, Edie!)
Galleries of Creature Designs!
Do you like monsters, creatures and aliens? We sure do! Here are two galleries of conceptual designs for the Austrian horror movie, The Station / Der Blutgletscher: Part I and Part II. The art is by TOMAK and the movie is directed by Marvin Kren.
“Artists Respond To DC’s Harley Quinn Contest”
Here’s a gallery of artist responses to DC’s Harley Quinn contest. (Thanks, Mark!)
“He used to be on police dramas, then he met a bad buy in real life.”
Portrait of actor Tom Ligon at The New York Times: “Fans of 1970s police shows have Mr. Ligon’s face stamped in unconscious corners of their minds. He played bit parts in Baretta and Police Woman. In an episode of Starsky and Hutch, he played a character listed in the […]
RIP, Frederick Pohl
Author and Science Fiction Grandmaster Frederick Pohl has died. The Guardian has an obituary. Pohl’s blog has posted a short notice. The Library of Congress has a speech Pohl gave at Bookfest 2004. Frederick Pohl reads his story, “Day Million.”
The Cultural Gutter 