“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.”
“A Turkish Cartoonist On Stating The Facts When You Don’t Have Them.”
The Nib has Turkish cartoonist Felat Delibalta’s comic, “So You’re Going Through A Coup.”
Bengali Noir
“Looking for film noir in India is to miss the point of Indian cinema altogether.”–Lalitha Gopalan, “Bombay Noir,” A Companion to Film Noir. (Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013). There’s a lot about Calcutta—the center of the Bengali film industry, metropolitan capital of the state of West Bengal, […]
Trick-or-Treating, Turnips and Jack-o-lanterns
Irish Central, Atlas Obscura, and the English Heritage Blog have some stories about the origins of Halloween and a man named, “Jack.”
The Cultural Gutter 