William Castle Rises from the Grave!
Dare you pull aside the bloodstained veil and enter the blog of William Castle?
Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s “Black Rainbow”
Ryan Holmberg reads Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s Black Blizzard closely with Tatsumi’s memoir, A Drifting Life, and discovers Black Blizzard is an adaptation of pulp mystery writer Shimada Kazuo’s story, “Black Rainbow,” then puts Tatsumi’s work in the context of other mass entertainment of its time. The piece itself is […]
Interview with Devin Grayson
The Womanthology blog interviews Devin Grayson, as part of their neat series of interviews with female comics creators, “Inside the Creator’s Studio.” Grayson discusses acting and writing, writing game scripts, and writing Dick Grayson in his Nightwing guise.
DC’s Centre Does Hold
Based on the current comics, and Flashpoint: Hal Jordan, in particular, Colin Smith breaks down DC’s assumptions about what makes an excellent comic and how that will likely effect the comics in DC’s relaunch. “After all, the same folks who piloted Flashpoint and its tie-ins are in charge […]
Why Aren’t There More Women in Comics?
Adam Knave answers a question a lot of comics readers have been asking lately, “Why aren’t there more women in comics?” : “[T]he industry has a history of actively trying to throw out half the population’s worth of potential. And then asking why they aren’t there, punching them […]
Is Boring Bad?
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott defend the slow and the boring film, giving as examples, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Dargis sees them giving space for thought. Scott sees “protests against the deep…[as] mask[ing] another agenda, which is a […]
The Cultural Gutter 