Marriage Equality

Go to: Sci-ənce by Maki Naro (via Robert T. Gonzalez)

Don't mess with the underpants

Go to: May Contain Content by Kerry Callen (via Michael May)

Anne Mashup

Go to: Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton

Webcomic: The Titular Hero

Go to: Tor, by M.K. Reed and Jonathan Hill (via Lauren Davis)

Video: Marvel

Go to: Vimeo, by Blackmeal (via Lauren Davis)

Webcomic: Plume

Go to: Plume by K. Lynn Smith

Sketch: Jack Kirby

Comics Will Break Your Heart
(pencil & watercolour on 300gsm paper)
A5 (148 x 210mm, 5.7 x 8.3 inches)

Go to: Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks (via Trouble With Comics)

This sketch tells the story behind the quote that opens Hicksville. It was told to me by James Romberger, an artist and cartoonist whose amazing graphic novel Seven Miles a Second (written by activist and artist David Wojnarowicz) has just been reissued by Fantagraphics.

In the 1980s, Romberger met Kirby at a convention in New York. Kirby kindly looked at Romberger’s work and then gave him a piece of advice: “Kid, you’re one of the best. But put your work in galleries. Don’t do comics. Comics will break your heart.” - Dylan Horrocks

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

Hi, I'm Mr. Creepy!

As a homage to The Wizard of Oz from 1939, Oz the Great and Powerful looks positively amazing, with a hyper-obssesive attention to detail when duplicating the sets of the earlier movie. All the impressive visual effects are realized in glorious technicolor. But I have to single out the porcelain doll character as the film's triumphant CGI achievement. Unfortunately this prequel whitewashes the darker and more ambiguous overtones found in L. Frank Baum's story. What's left is a predictable and decidedly lightweight tale of redemption that doesn't come across as truly earned. As played by a constantly smirking James Franco, The titular character's transformation from huckster to hero is so unconvincing that when Oz finally gets to kiss the angelic Glinda, the scene feels kinda gross.

Architecture: Homes made from shipping containers

Crossbox House, by CG Architectes Pont-Péan, France, 2009

Adriance House by Adam Kalkin, somewhere in Northern Maine, USA, 2012

Cove Park, Scotland, by Urban Space Management, 2002 and 2006

Go to: i09, by Vincze Miklós

Webcomic: The Loneliest Unicorn

Go to: COOLEY! by Josh Cooley (via Meredith Woerner)

Website: Zombie Index

Go to: Zombie Index by George Pfau (via  Annalee Newitz)

Video: Choros

Choros from Michael Langan on Vimeo.

Go to: Langan Films, by Michael Langan and Terah Maher (via Robert T. Gonzalez)