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 “race” from The Cultural Gutter
The Pitiful Death of Monsieur Mallah
There's a sickness in my stomach I've been carrying a while, an unpleasant acid feeling that bothers me when I've been reading or reading about comics lately. And I guess it's time for me to cough it up and see what the hell is burning a hole inside.
Continue reading...
What's the Matter with Comics?
Comics at the Big Two are in rough shape. Greg Burgas and Chris Sims see similar problems (nostalgia, Kurt Busiek) creating more problems (blandness, resistance to change, retcons, killing of heroes of color to replace them with white heroes of the Silver Age...). We noted Chris' article before, but it's worth reading with Greg's.
Happy Birthday, Pam Grier!
It's Pam Grier's birthday. Celebrate with this interview by NPR.
"Tresspassing on Sacred Ground"
As part of TCM's Race & Hollyood: Native American Images on Film" festival, Movie Morlocks has posted part 1 of an essay on Native Americans in horror movies from The Werewolf a 1913 Canadian silent to J.T. Petty's The Burrowers and Twilight: New Moon: "The inclusion of Native Americans into
actual horror movies boils down to a scattering of reliable formulas: Whites Trespassing on Sacred Grounds, Vengeful Redskins, Ecology and Racism." (via GCDB)
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"A Cosmic-Scale Meta-Textual Ghetto"
Chris Sims writes a thought-provoking article about how DC's universe reboots are fueled by fan nostalgia that shoves characters of color aside in favor of white "legacy" characters and unintentionally builds "a cosmic-scale meta-textual ghetto." Read it.(And this little addition to it).
Odienator Sizes Up Uncle Remus
Odienator answers two pressing questions in his piece about Song of the South: "1. Should Disney release this movie on DVD in America? Absolutely. 2.
Is Song of the South as racist as its rep indicates? Well…keep reading.
(You didn't think I'd just give you my goodies without dinner and
foreplay, did you?)"
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).
Milestone!
So much Milestone going on! Milestone creator Dwayne McDuffie talks with The Atlantic about "reinventing personal mythologies, pop-cultural representations of race and an investigation of what shapes our moral frameworks" and how much he likes writing romance. Meanwhile, Evan Narcisse shares his memories of Milestone Comics--with pictures.
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)
Continue reading...
"You Asked For It--Cried For It--Demanded It!"
"You asked for it--Cried for it--Demanded it!" Yes, dear reader, Sequential Crush, a blog dedicated to romance comics from the 1960s and 1970s. Check out "Black + White = Heartbreak," a story about interracial romance in the early 1970s and scans of the first three issues of Night Nurse. (via The Groovy Age of Horror)
Black History Mumf
It's Black History Mumf at Big Media Vandalism and the Odienator provides a recap of his film reviews here.
Talking More Twilight
Gabe Lezra hits a nerve when he writes about the white man's burden in Twilight and New Moon and wonders why there's no Team Bella and the comments at The Wesleyan Argus are all kerfuffled.
Jenkins' List
Henry Jenkins writes up a handy list of some comics he's enjoyed recently, divvied into stories of everyday life, superheroes, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and some unclassifiable items.
I Got 99 Problems But a Bitch Ain't One
Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan occupy some interesting real estate in the romance world; a previously untenanted corner of Innernet and
Romancelandia. Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is a different sort of headspace when it comes to a website about Romance novels. It's frank, forthright, and not above fart jokes.
Wendell and Tan don't just review novels, they also subject them to analysis, and praise or pan them as the situation requires. They demonstrate an unquenchable and
exuberant love for the entire genre, while acknowledging - and even celebrating - its most ridiculous excesses. They've amassed an interesting and intelligent readership who tune in for the commentary and stay for fun. They even popularized the ever-useful phrase ‘man-titty’ as a descriptive aid in the discussion of cover art. And now the original Smart Bitches have written a book of their own: Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels
Continue reading...
The Black Dragon's Revenge
Ron Van Clief. the Black Dragon, remembers Bruce Lee, Carter Wong, Jimi Hendrix, racism and underground fighting in the 1950s and working with Blaxploitation auteur, Berry Gordy:
"What made The Last Dragon so special is that it was shot in New York
City and it starred an African American. No drugs, no prostitution.
Just a clean Disney-like story. I consider it a martial arts fantasy.
They used my Chinese Goju virtues in the film. It was excellent that
over 30 of my students worked on the film."
Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing
Oprah’s Book Club had a massive impact on the literary landscape, and I mean that in a good, non-dinosaur-killing way. The huge surge in the trade paperback market owes much to Oprah. I was working for Chapters when it went nova, and the number of times
Continue reading...
John Wayne Can't Save You
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.
Blood Red Earth has been on FEARnet for weeks now. A horror movie set in the Old West with a Native American cast? All in Lakota? It's hard to imagine much more awesome than that. I'd been anticipating and dreading it. Its predecessor, The Burrowers, is harrowing and I wasn't in a hurry to be a little shaky, a little pale again. So I circled round and round. (Spoilers down below)
Continue reading...
Tales from Ursula
Did you know Ursula Le Guin worked on an Earthsea screenplay with Peeping Tom and Black Narcissus' Michael Powell? I didn't. There's more in her Vice Magazine interview. (via Kaiju Shakedown)
The Yellow Peril Seduces Unshaven, Middle Aged White Men
"She came from the Orient to seduce middle-aged white men who don't shave." Grady has a few things to say about the Zhang Ziyi and Dennis Quaid film, The Horsemen.
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Oh, to live in the era of the Regency Romance or the epic medieval adventure! Oh, except that life would suck: "No painless dentistry, eccentric provision for sewage, no penicillin
and no concept of asepsis, and the condition of most women was not one
that I aspire to."
The Pitiful Death of Monsieur Mallah
There's a sickness in my stomach I've been carrying a while, an unpleasant acid feeling that bothers me when I've been reading or reading about comics lately. And I guess it's time for me to cough it up and see what the hell is burning a hole inside.
What's the Matter with Comics?
Comics at the Big Two are in rough shape. Greg Burgas and Chris Sims see similar problems (nostalgia, Kurt Busiek) creating more problems (blandness, resistance to change, retcons, killing of heroes of color to replace them with white heroes of the Silver Age...). We noted Chris' article before, but it's worth reading with Greg's.Happy Birthday, Pam Grier!
It's Pam Grier's birthday. Celebrate with this interview by NPR."Tresspassing on Sacred Ground"
As part of TCM's Race & Hollyood: Native American Images on Film" festival, Movie Morlocks has posted part 1 of an essay on Native Americans in horror movies from The Werewolf a 1913 Canadian silent to J.T. Petty's The Burrowers and Twilight: New Moon: "The inclusion of Native Americans into actual horror movies boils down to a scattering of reliable formulas: Whites Trespassing on Sacred Grounds, Vengeful Redskins, Ecology and Racism." (via GCDB)"A Cosmic-Scale Meta-Textual Ghetto"
Chris Sims writes a thought-provoking article about how DC's universe reboots are fueled by fan nostalgia that shoves characters of color aside in favor of white "legacy" characters and unintentionally builds "a cosmic-scale meta-textual ghetto." Read it.(And this little addition to it).Odienator Sizes Up Uncle Remus
Odienator answers two pressing questions in his piece about Song of the South: "1. Should Disney release this movie on DVD in America? Absolutely. 2. Is Song of the South as racist as its rep indicates? Well…keep reading. (You didn't think I'd just give you my goodies without dinner and foreplay, did you?)"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).Milestone!
So much Milestone going on! Milestone creator Dwayne McDuffie talks with The Atlantic about "reinventing personal mythologies, pop-cultural representations of race and an investigation of what shapes our moral frameworks" and how much he likes writing romance. Meanwhile, Evan Narcisse shares his memories of Milestone Comics--with pictures.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)
"You Asked For It--Cried For It--Demanded It!"
"You asked for it--Cried for it--Demanded it!" Yes, dear reader, Sequential Crush, a blog dedicated to romance comics from the 1960s and 1970s. Check out "Black + White = Heartbreak," a story about interracial romance in the early 1970s and scans of the first three issues of Night Nurse. (via The Groovy Age of Horror)Black History Mumf
It's Black History Mumf at Big Media Vandalism and the Odienator provides a recap of his film reviews here.Talking More Twilight
Gabe Lezra hits a nerve when he writes about the white man's burden in Twilight and New Moon and wonders why there's no Team Bella and the comments at The Wesleyan Argus are all kerfuffled.Jenkins' List
Henry Jenkins writes up a handy list of some comics he's enjoyed recently, divvied into stories of everyday life, superheroes, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and some unclassifiable items.I Got 99 Problems But a Bitch Ain't One
Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan occupy some interesting real estate in the romance world; a previously untenanted corner of Innernet and
Romancelandia. Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is a different sort of headspace when it comes to a website about Romance novels. It's frank, forthright, and not above fart jokes.
Wendell and Tan don't just review novels, they also subject them to analysis, and praise or pan them as the situation requires. They demonstrate an unquenchable and exuberant love for the entire genre, while acknowledging - and even celebrating - its most ridiculous excesses. They've amassed an interesting and intelligent readership who tune in for the commentary and stay for fun. They even popularized the ever-useful phrase ‘man-titty’ as a descriptive aid in the discussion of cover art. And now the original Smart Bitches have written a book of their own: Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels
Continue reading...The Black Dragon's Revenge
Ron Van Clief. the Black Dragon, remembers Bruce Lee, Carter Wong, Jimi Hendrix, racism and underground fighting in the 1950s and working with Blaxploitation auteur, Berry Gordy:"What made The Last Dragon so special is that it was shot in New York City and it starred an African American. No drugs, no prostitution. Just a clean Disney-like story. I consider it a martial arts fantasy. They used my Chinese Goju virtues in the film. It was excellent that over 30 of my students worked on the film."
Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing
Oprah’s Book Club had a massive impact on the literary landscape, and I mean that in a good, non-dinosaur-killing way. The huge surge in the trade paperback market owes much to Oprah. I was working for Chapters when it went nova, and the number of times
John Wayne Can't Save You
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.
Blood Red Earth has been on FEARnet for weeks now. A horror movie set in the Old West with a Native American cast? All in Lakota? It's hard to imagine much more awesome than that. I'd been anticipating and dreading it. Its predecessor, The Burrowers, is harrowing and I wasn't in a hurry to be a little shaky, a little pale again. So I circled round and round. (Spoilers down below)
Continue reading...Tales from Ursula
Did you know Ursula Le Guin worked on an Earthsea screenplay with Peeping Tom and Black Narcissus' Michael Powell? I didn't. There's more in her Vice Magazine interview. (via Kaiju Shakedown)The Yellow Peril Seduces Unshaven, Middle Aged White Men
"She came from the Orient to seduce middle-aged white men who don't shave." Grady has a few things to say about the Zhang Ziyi and Dennis Quaid film, The Horsemen.
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Oh, to live in the era of the Regency Romance or the epic medieval adventure! Oh, except that life would suck: "No painless dentistry, eccentric provision for sewage, no penicillin and no concept of asepsis, and the condition of most women was not one that I aspire to."