“Teenage Love Stories”
The Internet Archive has the first three issues of Warren Publishing’s Teen Love Stories for your entertainment and edification.
“I have seen Olivia Jaimes, the artist behind the new Nancy“
Rocko Jerome has seen and listened to a Cartoon Crossroads Columbus interview/panelette with Olivia Jaimes, the writer and artist on Nancy. He shares his notes and impressions here. “Olivia spoke about how the function of Nancy as a comic is problem solving. There’s a challenge of some kind, […]
“Horror is a Soothing Genre”
Longreads has an interview with author Sady Doyle on horror, true crime and gender. “I find that horror is almost a soothing genre, because it’s very validating. It’s often not that far [removed] from reality. It uses dream logic to tell its story, but it’s still one of […]
“Knives & Skin (2019) is an amazing pastel noir therapy session”
“What [Jennifer] Reeder brings to Knives And Skin is a one of the most extraordinary marriages of influence (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, The Breakfast Club, American Graffiti) and authenticity. This is her stage where quirks and plurality are laid visceral and bare. Knives and Skin plays its part in instinctual cinema, […]
So Many Captains Marvel
At Radio Times, there is an explanation of all the Captains Marvel. (Thanks, Ann!)
“Seven Critics of Victory: Sara Century on Mister Miracle”
Friend of the Gutter Sara Century writes about Seven Soldiers of Victory: Mister Miracle #1 for The MNT. “The Seven Soldiers of Victory were all mired in DC history, but perhaps none so much as Zatanna, Klarion, and our subject today, Mister Miracle. Though it doesn’t explain what […]
The Cultural Gutter 