Dogs and Smurfs
Who are to blame for male writers getting taken more seriously than female writers? Max Barry says, “Dogs and Smurfs.”
Badass Women of the Pulp Era
14 Badass Women of the Pulp Era from around the world.
How Hollywood Killed Stunts
Salon has an excellent piece on the death of stunts in Hollywood movies, exploring everything from the history of film stunts, the reliance on CG effects and new-fangled “intensified continuity” editing. The piece also mentions Michelle Yeoh, Tony Jaa, Zoe Bell and Yakima Canutt. (Thanks, Brian from Shelf […]
High Point Down Under
Canadians and Australians tend to go together well. Our affinity makes sense: we have so much in common. We both have a lot of British in our backgrounds. We both live on the edges of our very large countries. And our climates are quite extreme (although in opposite […]
Tentacular, Tentacular
“Spectacular, spectacularNo words in the vernacularCan describe this great event.” —Moulin Rouge! (2001) That song went through my head while reading both volumes of Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse. Actually, the song went “Tentacular, tentacular.” Ben Templesmith can draw some tentacles and Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse is either a showcase for […]
The Lost Thing
Tor.com has a trailer for the animated version of Shaun Tan’s children’s book, The Lost Thing. There are both rivets and tentacles.
The Cultural Gutter 