I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “1900s” from The Cultural Gutter
A Prowler Through The Dark
“In off the moors, down through the mist bands/ God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.” (Beowulf. Seamus Heaney, trans. 710-1)
I have seen many adaptations of Beowulf, from art house films like Beowulf and Grendel and low-budget science fiction like Christopher Lambert's Beowulf of the future to Neil Gaiman's Beowulf and its rotoscopery and The Thirteenth Warrior's stealth adaptation.
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RIP, Kazuo Ohno
Kazuo Ohno has died at 103. He was a great performer of Butoh, a Japanese dance drama form, and even if dance is not your thing, Japanese horror movies and possibly contemporary supernatural horror wouldn't be the same without him.
Kirkbride, Castles of the Midwest.
Kirkbride Buildings are the castles of the American Midwest. They're also 19th century State Hospitals.
Asian Western Round Up
This month we're mixing it up at the Gutter
with each editor writing
about something outside their usual domain. This week Carol Borden
writes about movies. She can normally be found here.
The world is clamoring for more Asian Westerns. Or at least I am. I'm talking Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean Westerns.
They
seem like the best ones around. So saddle up and let's ride.
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The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages
Dart Adams Presents: Black Like Me: The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages, Part One (1900-1968)and Part Two (1969-2008). (Click it! It's amazing).
The Casefile of Sherlock Holmes and Carl Kolchak, Reporter
Though I prefer reading —and writing
about —comics in collections, I do buy comics in single issues. Sometimes I need to know what happens next or can't wait for the collection anymore. Sometimes it's idle curiosity or the lure of the pretty. But every once in a while, it's the potential for all-out crazy.
I picked up Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder #1 for the potential all-out crazy.
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Self-Defence for Gentlemen (and Suffragettes)
Scare off impudent ruffians and defeat any self-styled Goliath with only your cane or umbrella! Learn Bartitsu, the martial art favored by many Victorian (and some Edwardian) ladies and gentlemen! View a short documentary here. (via Kung Fu Cinema)
Protecting Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen must be protected and Donnie Yen's gonna do it. Kung Fu Cinema has footage from Bodyguards and Assassins storyboards and all.
In the Shadow of Maus
Art Spiegelman has a lot to live up to. He founded Raw magazine in the early 1980s, an anthology of independent comics assembled well before the masses cottoned on to the concept. Through it, he brought sunlight to some of the medium's best practitioners, Dan Clowes and Charles Burns among them. He's also a cartoonist, a formal innovator with a restless streak. His stint at The Topps Company spawned the Wacky Packages sticker series (and the Garbage Pail Kids on its heels).
Then there's Maus. The story of his intrepid father's survival of the Holocaust outgrew its origins in Raw to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel. It officially inflamed the GN revolution currently weaning new readers off their anti-comics prejudice, and put Spiegelman -- and alt comics -- on a pedestal.
Continue reading...
A Prowler Through The Dark
“In off the moors, down through the mist bands/ God-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.” (Beowulf. Seamus Heaney, trans. 710-1)
I have seen many adaptations of Beowulf, from art house films like Beowulf and Grendel and low-budget science fiction like Christopher Lambert's Beowulf of the future to Neil Gaiman's Beowulf and its rotoscopery and The Thirteenth Warrior's stealth adaptation.
Continue reading...RIP, Kazuo Ohno
Kazuo Ohno has died at 103. He was a great performer of Butoh, a Japanese dance drama form, and even if dance is not your thing, Japanese horror movies and possibly contemporary supernatural horror wouldn't be the same without him.Kirkbride, Castles of the Midwest.
Kirkbride Buildings are the castles of the American Midwest. They're also 19th century State Hospitals.Asian Western Round Up
This month we're mixing it up at the Gutter with each editor writing about something outside their usual domain. This week Carol Borden writes about movies. She can normally be found here.
The world is clamoring for more Asian Westerns. Or at least I am. I'm talking Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean Westerns.
They seem like the best ones around. So saddle up and let's ride.
Continue reading...The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages
Dart Adams Presents: Black Like Me: The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages, Part One (1900-1968)and Part Two (1969-2008). (Click it! It's amazing).The Casefile of Sherlock Holmes and Carl Kolchak, Reporter
Though I prefer reading —and writing about —comics in collections, I do buy comics in single issues. Sometimes I need to know what happens next or can't wait for the collection anymore. Sometimes it's idle curiosity or the lure of the pretty. But every once in a while, it's the potential for all-out crazy.
I picked up Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder #1 for the potential all-out crazy.
Continue reading...Self-Defence for Gentlemen (and Suffragettes)
Scare off impudent ruffians and defeat any self-styled Goliath with only your cane or umbrella! Learn Bartitsu, the martial art favored by many Victorian (and some Edwardian) ladies and gentlemen! View a short documentary here. (via Kung Fu Cinema)Protecting Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen must be protected and Donnie Yen's gonna do it. Kung Fu Cinema has footage from Bodyguards and Assassins storyboards and all.In the Shadow of Maus
Art Spiegelman has a lot to live up to. He founded Raw magazine in the early 1980s, an anthology of independent comics assembled well before the masses cottoned on to the concept. Through it, he brought sunlight to some of the medium's best practitioners, Dan Clowes and Charles Burns among them. He's also a cartoonist, a formal innovator with a restless streak. His stint at The Topps Company spawned the Wacky Packages sticker series (and the Garbage Pail Kids on its heels).
Then there's Maus. The story of his intrepid father's survival of the Holocaust outgrew its origins in Raw to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel. It officially inflamed the GN revolution currently weaning new readers off their anti-comics prejudice, and put Spiegelman -- and alt comics -- on a pedestal.
Continue reading...