“Dave’s Faves: Best Comics of 2025”
Comic Book Herald has an ongoing review of CBH Editor-in-Chief Dave’s best comics of 2025 and you can see them here.
So Many Daily Comic Strips!
Hoopla has a bingepass allowing you to read so many daily comic strips–including Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon–from Comics Kingdom, King Features Syndicate’s comic strip website. If you have Hoopla, you can use it through your local library. (I assume this is US only, but don’t know for sure).
Director Ryan Coogler explains Aspect Ratios
Ryan Coogler explains aspect ratios and different film formats here. There are white boards, drawings, and clips from Sinners (2025)! (Thanks, Michelle Kisner!)
Story First Games: Southern Gothic to Steampunk
The first article I ever wrote for the Gutter was about an innovative video game called The Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream, 2005). It was described as “a breakthrough in interactive narrative”, which may have been an attempt to dissociate it from the short-lived interactive movie genre of the previous […]
Cinema Centric: Godzilla vs Biollante!
At Cinema Centric Podast, friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner discusses Criterion’s Godzilla vs Biollante (1989) and Godzilla films in general. “The CINEMA CENTRIC meet up for an episode with Michelle Kisner—also known as Robot Cookie—a powerhouse film critic, fearless freelance writer, champion of physical media, essayist with […]
Touring Mid-Century Modern
Architectural Digest tours the set of Mid-Century Modern and offers a nice little glimpse of Palm Beach style. Watch here.
The Cultural Gutter 