The History of Webcomics
Shaenon Garrity tries to chart “The History of Webcomics” from 1985 to the “Age of This Whole App Thing” at The Comics Journal.
A Cinematic History of the Future
SFSignal has Handshake Magazine’s cinematic history of the future. The timecode in the upper right hand corner.
RIP, Peter Falk
Actor Peter Falk has died. He was probably best known as Grandpa in The Princess Bride and Lt. Columbo in Columbo, but he worked for Frank Capra, Nicholas Ray, John Cassavetes, Wim Wenders, Robert Altman and Robert Wise. And gave probably the finest performance ever at The Dean […]
RIP, Gene Colan
Comics artist Gene Colan has died. He was best known for his work on Marvel’s The Tomb of Dracula, but he started at DC drawing Namor, the Sub-Mariner and worked with Steve Gerber on Howard the Duck. The Guardian has an obituary with more on his life and […]
Piracy’s Double-Edged Cutlass
The power of piracy and viral success of Go The Fuck To Sleep (a children’s book for adults): “Piracy, it seems, is what has driven the book’s real-world, money-making, flying-off-the-shelves success. The bootleg copy hasn’t replaced the actual artifact. It has only served as a sort of free […]
Publishing the Unpublishable
Kaiju Shakedown‘s Grady Hendrix has a new ebook out, Satan Loves You, combining Satan, crappy jobs and professional wrestling. Hendrix writes: “Sometimes I don’t want to think about what readers are looking for right now. Sometimes I don’t want to worry about what the marketing department needs or […]
The Cultural Gutter 