Interview with Joe Hill
At Monster Island Resort Podcast, Miguel talks horror in videogames and comics and interviews Joe Hill, writer of Locke & Key and many fine horror short stories and novels.
3 Reviews of The Hunger Games
In three reviews, Miguel Rodriguez, Peter Gutierrez and Darren Franich consider what was missing from the film’s adaptation of The Hunger Games book–poverty, class and complicity to start.
Happy Birthday, Akira Kurosawa!
Gutter Comics Editor Carol wrote a little piece on Akira Kurosawa and action films over at the ActionFest Blog in honor of Kurosawa’s 102nd birthday.
Nostalgia or Awesomeness?
Was Robocop the best and most subversive action movie of the action movie’s golden period? Is there also some nostalgia at play?
Jack Davis Preview
Fantagraphics has a video, a gallery of images and a 22 page preview of their book, Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture. The Gutter’s Editor Emeritus Ian Driscoll has more to say about Davis here.
The Portrait of Sho Kosugi
Dare you explore the illustrated history of Enter the Ninja‘s Sho Kosugi? “In the 80′s, Sho Kosugi posed for over 73 billion photos in full night gear, laden with weapons, in magazines like Black Belt, Ninja, even Karate Illustrated and Inside Kung Fu. Yet when it comes to movie […]
The Cultural Gutter 