Summertime and the living is far from easy, but hopefully it can be easier with these summer fun time (and winter fun time, for our antipodean friends) reading suggestions including horror, fantasy, thrills, chills, adventure, mystery, crime and wisdom from the most advanced civilization on Earth. There are […]
The New Yorker has some images of pages from Emil Ferris’ long-awaited My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics, 2024)! Behold them here.
At Oh Joy Sex Toy, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan team up with Chicago’s Early To Bed to share their favorite sex toys of 2022–and all in comic form! Read it here.
At Crime Reads, friend of the Gutter Andrew Nette writes about Prime Cut (1972). “Want to talk about one of the strangest, if not the strangest American crime film to emerge in the first half of the 1970s? Then, let’s talk about Michael Ritchie’s neo-noir Prime Cut, as […]
Robin Pogrebin writes here about the conflict over rights to Henry Darger’s work. “When the janitor-turned-artist Henry Darger died in Chicago at 81 in 1973, leaving a single room crammed with his colorful illustrations, a 15,000-page book and no immediate surviving relatives, Darger’s landlord began showing, sharing and […]
At Chicago Magazine, Jake Malooley writes about the origins of Candyman (1992) in a piece about a murder in Chicago’s Grace Abbott Homes. “To get at the real horror behind Candyman, I knew I had to talk to Steve Bogira. Now 66, the veteran journalist covered race and […]
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