Hoopla has a bingepass allowing you to read so many daily comic strips–including Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon–from Comics Kingdom, King Features Syndicate’s comic strip website. If you have Hoopla, you can use it through your local library. (I assume this is US only, but don’t know for sure).
At Eruditorum Press, Elizabeth Sandifer writes about Neil Gaiman and Scientology. (Thanks, Bill!) “Gaiman has repeatedly drawn from his childhood in his fiction, however, and this paints a far darker picture. His earliest work to engage with it was Violent Cases, a 1987 graphic novel that begins with […]
On Criminal podcast, Phoebe Judge examines youth crime in the 1950s, comics, and Frederic Wertham. There are interviews with scholar Carol Tilley, writer Saladin Ahmed, and archivists at the National Archive in Washington, D.C. “’Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store […]
BBC Archive has a clip from Saturday Review. “Charles Shaar Murray interviews the prolific horror writer Ramsey Campbell, Alan Moore – the writer of graphic novels Swamp Thing and Watchmen, and director David Cronenberg, whose latest film The Fly deals in grotesque body horror, about the resurgence in […]
Hey, RiffTrax has released a supercut of pre-MCU superhero movies, featuring jokes written by Gail Simone! “Mediocrities, Assemble! Super Zeroes is a special packed with the best moments of some of the corniest vintage superhero flicks ever made. Complete with host segments from Mike, Kevin and Bill!” Find […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has a little piece on Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (USA, 2022). “I wish The People’s Joker could just be a film about Joker the Harlequin’s experience and we could watch it as one movie among others. I wish I could anticipate a […]
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