“Moonraker Misión Espacial”!”
At Comics Royale Clinton Rawls has translated an Argentinian comic adaptation of Moonraker and you can read it here. (Thanks, Brian!)
Summer Fun Time Reading ’23
Summer isn’t quite here, but it’s been hot and a chunk of North America is already on fire, so I thought I’d go straight ahead with my Summer Fun Time Reading recommendations. There’s Gilded Age tomfoolery, science fiction, horror, mysterious figures with antlers, UFOs, ghosts, cats with skulls […]
Interview with Rachel Pollack
The Nib has an interview in comics form with Doom Patrol writer and Tarot expert, Rachel Pollack. Annie Mok discusses being a superhero on your own terms and Pollack’s creation of Coagula, one of the first trans superheroes. Read it here.
10 Things I Liked in 2022
I know it’s a bit late for a list of things I liked in 2022, but here at the Gutter we do what we want. And like Angela Englert and Sachin Hingoo, I am taking care of some end of year business. Besides, what if you discover something […]
The Difficult Truths of Kate Beaton’s ‘Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands’
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal of paying off her student […]
The Exorcist in Comic Form
Did you know that mangaka Kazuo Umezu created a feature to promote the release of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1972) in Japan? He did–and you can see it here! (Thanks, Sayantan!) You can also read a piece on Kazuo Umezu by the Gutter’s own Carol here.
The Cultural Gutter 