This week’s Guest Star is friend of the Gutter Kate Laity! ~~~ Men love ‘crazy’ women.* In fiction, anyway: they love the ‘truth’ of revealing what’s inside those other creatures men are so sure are completely different from them—another species! Women are from Venus, men are from Uranus […]
Colossal has an intricate illustration of Kowloon Walled City before it was destroyed in 1994 drawn by Hitomi Terasawa. “For a now out-of-print book titled Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide, artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of the urban phenomenon to preserve its memory. The massive panorama […]
At Beats and Transgressions, friend of the Gutter Kimberly Lindbergs celebrated World Tarot Day by “[spotlighting] some of the most well-known artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers who use tarot, have written about tarot, or created tarot decks of their own.” Read more here!
I have long wanted an ancestral portrait painted in a German Expressionist style hanging in my entry when I greet weary travelers seeking shelter from a ferocious storm. They would evince surprise at the unnerving resemblance between that sinister visage and my own features or perhaps those of […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden is fortunate enough to be (remotely) attending the Overlook Film Festival 2024 and has some thoughts on Larry Fessenden’s new werewolf movie, Blackout: Charlie (Alex Hurt) is trying to escape Talbot Falls but can’t quite get out. A town with that name is […]
The New Yorker has some images of pages from Emil Ferris’ long-awaited My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics, 2024)! Behold them here.
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