Nippon.com Interviews Artist Juanjo Guarnido
Blacksad artist Juanjo Guarnido is interviewed at Nippon.com. And Nippon.com shares mangaka Mashima Hiro’s thoughts on Blacksad and Juanjo Guarnido’s influence on his own work.
RIP, Hal Sutherland
Animator, director, Filmation co-founder and painter Hal Sutherland has died. Sutherland is probably best known for Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Archies and Star Trek animated series. Sutherland Indiewire has an obituary. StarTrek.com remembers Sutherland. StarTrek.com has a two-part interview with Sutherland here.
The Graves of Russian Mafiya Bosses
Denis Tarasov has photographed the elaborate graves of Russian and Ukrainian organized crime bosses. They’re currently being shown at London’s Saatchi gallery. (via @jakeadelstein)
Monsters of the Fifteenth Century
A gallery of colorful monsters from a Fifteenth Century book of hours.
“Where Space Pyramids and Politics Collide”
“Afrofuturism also goes beyond spaceships, androids and aliens, and encompasses African mythology and cosmology with an aim to connect those from across the Black Diaspora to their forgotten African ancestry.” More on Afrofuturism and its promise, here. (via @Ponderiss)
“The Fallen Astronaut”
At Slate, Corey S. Powell and Laure Gwen Shapiro write about a small sculpture placed on the moon by astronaut David Scott in 1971.
The Cultural Gutter 