The Projection Booth Watches Conan The Barbarian
The Projection Booth tells you of days of high adventure in an epic seven hour podcast on Conan The Barbarian (1982).
How To Tell If You Are In High Fantasy or Soft Science Fiction
The Toast helps you determine if you are in a high fantasy novel or a soft science fiction one.
“The Anti-Tolkien”
The New Yorker profiles writer Michael Moorcock. Moorcock’s influence is nothing like Tolkien’s, at least on the surface, but his vision of a speculative-fiction genre that can be psychologically complex is evident in how very sophisticated some of it has become—from True Detective to Jeff VanderMeer, from David […]
10 Comics I Liked In 2014
I’m sure we’re all glad to see 2014 go. I know I am. But you know, comics are always here for you, and so is the Gutter. I thought I’d do something a little different with the list this year. Last year, I was invited to do a […]
Watching Aleksander Ptshuko’s Evenings On A Farm Near Dikanka
At Teleport City, the Gutter’s own Keith spends Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. “The movie opens as all good Christmas movies should: with a scene of a jolly witch tearing across the night sky astride her broomstick, collecting stars for her eldritch brews, while the devil bats […]
Katsuya Terada Live-Drawing Demonstration
Video of illustrator and character designer Katsuya Terada drawing and talking about his work. (via @aicnanime)
The Cultural Gutter 