“How To Be Cool”
Friend of the Gutter Todd Stadtman briefly reviews the new book by the Gutter’s own Keith Allison, Cocktails and Capers: Cult Cinema, Cocktails, Crime and Cool! Go on over and look and then make sure to pick up Keith’s book, too!
“Avoiding simple, obvious mistakes regarding drawing or modeling Black characters’ hair.”
Iron Circus Comix publisher C. Spike Trotman runs down “some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but aren’t confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair.” Read via Thread Reader here. (Thanks, Mark!)
Will I Dream?
September 2017. Socorro County, New Mexico — It moved slowly, with a grinding of motors and gears, its focus drifting across a brilliant blue September sky. It took several minutes, and I stood transfixed by something that must, to so many, seem so mundane. When it finally clicked […]
“The Art of the Sailor”
My Modern Met has a diagram by Lucy Bellwood describing the meanings of Western nautical tattoos. (See Bellwood’s “100 Demon Dialogues” here).
Evan Munday’s 365 Canadians You Might Not Find In Textbooks
Friend of the Gutter Evan Munday is drawing a Canadian every day for his #365Canadians project. He’s interviewed about the project by the CBC. “You’re probably familiar with Rick Hansen, Buffy Sainte-Marie and David Cronenberg, but do you know Chan Hon Goh, Del Lord and Lori Fung? Author, cartoonist and […]
“It Will Be Called Americanism”
At the Guardian, Sarah Churchwell writes about fiction and fascism. “These parallels between fictional pasts and our political present may seem eerie: they aren’t. There is nothing surprising about people trying to replicate the oldest models of power.”
The Cultural Gutter 