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 “Golden Age” from The Cultural Gutter
From Arthur To Orin
LBFA Presents: The History of Aquaman Explained!
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Science Fiction Again
It's been years since I've read any straight-up science-fiction. You know, the classic stuff by authors like Arthur C. Clarke or Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov. But I got
back into it recently through A.E. Van Vogt, having picked-up a used copy of Empire of the Atom.
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Giant Golem vs. Nazi Robot Dinosaur
Giant Golem vs. Giant Nazi Robot Dinosaur. There are scans...
Even More Project: Rooftop Projects
Just as Project Runway has Models of the Runway, so too Project: Rooftop has spin-offs. Now there's features like: "All Ages All-Stars," redesigning superheroes for all ages (for example, Martian Manhunter); "How It's Done," spotlighting official superhero redesigns (like the Iron Man briefcase armor); and "Retrofix," giving Golden and Silver age comic characters a new look.
The Biography of Ebony White
"People
don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."--Malcolm
X / Malik El-Shabazz, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told To
Alex Haley)
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Super Wizard Stardust and Fantomah, On the Air!
Just can't get enough of disturbing Golden Age comics auteur Fletcher Hanks? Stardust the Super Wizard and Fantomah go on the air on WFMU. Or at least Paul Karasik discusses Hanks, which is a much better situation.
Many Golden Age Comics In One Place
Golden Age Comics Downloads might overwhelm your hard drive, but it's probably worth it.
Edd Cartier, RIP
The Shadow wouldn't have been The Shadow and pulp wouldn't have been pulp without Edd Cartier, who died at 94 on Christmas Day. People at Penciljack have posted art and links to his art.
Killer Panda!
Worse than killer bees or killer jellyfish are pandas! Deadly, bitey pandas that must by shot by white men on safari! Behold and shudder: scans of "Facing Death in a Panda's Mouth!"
Yellow Peril
I've learned something reading Terry and the Pirates: There's no way around the yellow peril in the Golden Age. Good comics sometimes have racist renderings in them.
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The Vizigraph
It's a reprinted letters page from the Golden Age magazine, Planet Comics.(And more Futura scans).
Aliens need earth ladies--earth ladies fight back!
Sleestak has an overview of Planet Comics, which published some Fletcher Hanks stories. Even better, he has scans of Futura, an Alex Raymond-influenced space opera about a secretary kidnapped because aliens need earth ladies! "Over the course of her story Futura quickly becomes less of a victim
and her journey from frightened breeding stock to strong, independent
woman is a fun and interesting one."
Saga of the Swamp Things
Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing was my favorite comic in my younger, more gloomsome days. I probably liked it more than my other favorite comics at the time, Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and Neil Gaiman's Sandman. But Swamp Thing wasn't the only swamp monster in comics.
Continue reading...
10 Comics I Liked in 2007
The “best of” list is a tricky seasonal form and I’m no master. I might not know what’s best, but I do know what I like. So here’s ten good comics I read in 2007.
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Stardust Returns
"Almost like a crazy person is holding the pencil." My God, Mike Allred has created a comic featuring Fletcher Hanks' disturbing and punitive hero Stardust. (Thanks to Again With The Comics)
Superheros on a Slant
I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! brings back fond memories of the passionate works of maniacal genius I've occasionally scored at book fairs and zine shows—tracts with titles like "Thousands of Degrees Hot!" and minicomics like "Linda Saves Detroit" or "The Brain Parasites." Fletcher Hanks' comics are crazier and more inspired than I can convey.
Continue reading...
Hopped Up on Speedrunning
Shortly after 2 pm on the afternoon of May 18th, 2005, Brandon Erickson stepped
back from the
Star Wars arcade cabinet he'd been playing continuously, with no deaths,
extra credits, or nap breaks, for the past 54 hours, having failed to break the
Twin Galaxies record of three hundred
million points in 49 hours established 21 years earlier by one Robert Mruczek.
Perhaps these records of scale are best left in the distant past: all the
golden age games had to offer a master player, after all, was more, more, more
of the same. Let marathon play sessions in pursuit of the biggest score be
consigned to the ashbin of the '80s along with the big cars, big hair, and
shoulder pads in power suits; the fashion of our times dictates that minimalism
is the new bombast.
One thing game-players in 1993 were not wondering was how quickly they could
blast through DooM -- no, they lingered over every atmospherically-flickering
alcove, marveling at its unprecedented immersiveness. It was not until its
maps had been fully savoured that they would raise the bar, culminating in a
powerhouse drive to excel and trump their friends' achievements under curious
self-imposed limitations by doing the same, only faster.
Continue reading...
Tired of Saving You
There's a panel in Secret Agent X-9 that fascinates me. In it, X-9 tells a woman and her father, "I'm tired of saving your lives." The panel appears in the second half of Dashiell Hammett's first Secret Agent X-9 storyline, "You're the Top!" That's right—Dashiell Hammett scripted a daily comic. Alex Raymond, whose Flash Gordon was launched the same month, drew all seven storylines collected in Kitchen Sink Press' 1990 Secret Agent X-9. King Features Syndicate made a pretty good match with Hammett and Raymond, too bad they couldn't leave them be.
Continue reading...
From Arthur To Orin
LBFA Presents: The History of Aquaman Explained!How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Science Fiction Again
It's been years since I've read any straight-up science-fiction. You know, the classic stuff by authors like Arthur C. Clarke or Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov. But I got
back into it recently through A.E. Van Vogt, having picked-up a used copy of Empire of the Atom.
Giant Golem vs. Nazi Robot Dinosaur
Giant Golem vs. Giant Nazi Robot Dinosaur. There are scans...Even More Project: Rooftop Projects
Just as Project Runway has Models of the Runway, so too Project: Rooftop has spin-offs. Now there's features like: "All Ages All-Stars," redesigning superheroes for all ages (for example, Martian Manhunter); "How It's Done," spotlighting official superhero redesigns (like the Iron Man briefcase armor); and "Retrofix," giving Golden and Silver age comic characters a new look.The Biography of Ebony White
"People
don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."--Malcolm
X / Malik El-Shabazz, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told To
Alex Haley)
Super Wizard Stardust and Fantomah, On the Air!
Just can't get enough of disturbing Golden Age comics auteur Fletcher Hanks? Stardust the Super Wizard and Fantomah go on the air on WFMU. Or at least Paul Karasik discusses Hanks, which is a much better situation.
Many Golden Age Comics In One Place
Golden Age Comics Downloads might overwhelm your hard drive, but it's probably worth it.Edd Cartier, RIP
The Shadow wouldn't have been The Shadow and pulp wouldn't have been pulp without Edd Cartier, who died at 94 on Christmas Day. People at Penciljack have posted art and links to his art.Killer Panda!
Worse than killer bees or killer jellyfish are pandas! Deadly, bitey pandas that must by shot by white men on safari! Behold and shudder: scans of "Facing Death in a Panda's Mouth!"
Yellow Peril
I've learned something reading Terry and the Pirates: There's no way around the yellow peril in the Golden Age. Good comics sometimes have racist renderings in them.
The Vizigraph
It's a reprinted letters page from the Golden Age magazine, Planet Comics.(And more Futura scans).Aliens need earth ladies--earth ladies fight back!
Sleestak has an overview of Planet Comics, which published some Fletcher Hanks stories. Even better, he has scans of Futura, an Alex Raymond-influenced space opera about a secretary kidnapped because aliens need earth ladies! "Over the course of her story Futura quickly becomes less of a victim and her journey from frightened breeding stock to strong, independent woman is a fun and interesting one."Saga of the Swamp Things
Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing was my favorite comic in my younger, more gloomsome days. I probably liked it more than my other favorite comics at the time, Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and Neil Gaiman's Sandman. But Swamp Thing wasn't the only swamp monster in comics.
10 Comics I Liked in 2007
The “best of” list is a tricky seasonal form and I’m no master. I might not know what’s best, but I do know what I like. So here’s ten good comics I read in 2007.
Continue reading...
Stardust Returns
"Almost like a crazy person is holding the pencil." My God, Mike Allred has created a comic featuring Fletcher Hanks' disturbing and punitive hero Stardust. (Thanks to Again With The Comics)
Superheros on a Slant
I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets! brings back fond memories of the passionate works of maniacal genius I've occasionally scored at book fairs and zine shows—tracts with titles like "Thousands of Degrees Hot!" and minicomics like "Linda Saves Detroit" or "The Brain Parasites." Fletcher Hanks' comics are crazier and more inspired than I can convey.
Hopped Up on Speedrunning
Shortly after 2 pm on the afternoon of May 18th, 2005, Brandon Erickson stepped
back from the
Star Wars arcade cabinet he'd been playing continuously, with no deaths,
extra credits, or nap breaks, for the past 54 hours, having failed to break the
Twin Galaxies record of three hundred
million points in 49 hours established 21 years earlier by one Robert Mruczek.
Perhaps these records of scale are best left in the distant past: all the
golden age games had to offer a master player, after all, was more, more, more
of the same. Let marathon play sessions in pursuit of the biggest score be
consigned to the ashbin of the '80s along with the big cars, big hair, and
shoulder pads in power suits; the fashion of our times dictates that minimalism
is the new bombast.
One thing game-players in 1993 were not wondering was how quickly they could blast through DooM -- no, they lingered over every atmospherically-flickering alcove, marveling at its unprecedented immersiveness. It was not until its maps had been fully savoured that they would raise the bar, culminating in a powerhouse drive to excel and trump their friends' achievements under curious self-imposed limitations by doing the same, only faster.
Continue reading...Tired of Saving You
There's a panel in Secret Agent X-9 that fascinates me. In it, X-9 tells a woman and her father, "I'm tired of saving your lives." The panel appears in the second half of Dashiell Hammett's first Secret Agent X-9 storyline, "You're the Top!" That's right—Dashiell Hammett scripted a daily comic. Alex Raymond, whose Flash Gordon was launched the same month, drew all seven storylines collected in Kitchen Sink Press' 1990 Secret Agent X-9. King Features Syndicate made a pretty good match with Hammett and Raymond, too bad they couldn't leave them be.
