UK Entrances to Hell
For reasons of personal safety, please take time to review these Entrances to Hell in the UK. (Thanks, Steven!)
The Study of Air
Marcel Duchamp is ahead of all of us once again: “Who knew that Duchamp would also loosely anticipate the emerging field of internal atmospheric forensics, deployed as evidence in a U.S. murder case?” More about Duchamps’ 50 CC of Paris Air, the historical study of air environments and […]
Manga Eiga: Old Japanese Animation
The Japan Society had a program featuring Japanese animation from the 1910s-1940s. Even if you missed it, you can still see some shorts —a beautiful 1929 silent featuring Tengu; sing along with a 1930 papercut animation village festival; an unfortunate butterfly from 1931; tricks between a fox spirit […]
Black Hollywood
The 1984 documentary, Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema, is available, for free and in its entirety, online. Solid. (via Jay Potts of World of Hurt)
Social History in Comics
Out Of This World has an excellent series of articles examining African-American characters in mainstream comics, with scans for Two-Fisted Tales, Blazing Combat and Sgt. Rock plus, a nice look at Misty Knight.
A Salute to Pioneering Cartoonists of Color
Cartoonist Tim Jackson has gathered together a meticulously amazing collection of cartoons and comics strips by cartoonists of color. He includes an extensive index of cartoonist, cartoon and character names as well as galleries of gag cartoons, strips, editorial cartoons and sports cartoons from the 1920s through the […]
The Cultural Gutter 