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‘Black Skinhead’ by Kanye Westdoubt you heard of this obscure...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:42:01 +0100

‘Black Skinhead’ by Kanye West
doubt you heard of this obscure gem

Teatime Brutality: Canon and Sheep Shit: Why We Fight.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:34:20 +0100

Teatime Brutality: Canon and Sheep Shit: Why We Fight.:

quantumblog:

andrewhickeywriter:

It’s amazing how often I find myself having to link people to this…

I sometimes think I should just sit down and write a whole book about what a completely fatuous notion the concept of ‘canon’ is.

But then I realise I already did that and it didn’t change anything.

"Revolution requires a spark, and West has chosen to be that spark, albeit one that recalls a..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:00:50 +0100

“Revolution requires a spark, and West has chosen to be that spark, albeit one that recalls a virgin-seeking suicide bomber more than a molotov cocktail or gunpowder plot. Not that we’d expect any less from him. Yeezus, then, marks a subversive table turn of the Mandingo mythology, the trembling blackness thrust into Hampton wives as a sort of coup d’etat against the ugly and persistent status quo of culture, status, and race, a problem well-summarized by Gil Scott-Heron on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s finale ‘Who Will Survive In America’.”

- The Quietus | Reviews | Kanye West

Listen: me telling some dude I’d stick my dick in his wife just because I could isn’t a subversive table turn of the Mandingo mythology. It is an exact representation of what the Mandingo mythology represents, the fear of black dicks in white vaginas and the unutterable shame it inflicts on white women. It’s not a table turn at all. It’s an embrace. It’s “if crackers gon’ be fearing niggers, then that’s what the fuck I have to be.” If you’re gonna invoke something that’s explicitly and exclusively racist, at least know how it works and why what Kanye did is or is not a table turn.

Also that’s not what Who Will Survive in America is about, but that’s another thing entirely.

Also also I like that Kanye is not a spark for a gunpowder plot (white people) or a molotov cocktail (white people, russian people) but a virgin-seeking suicide bomber (BROWN BROWN BROWN)

faitherinhicks: jakewyattriot: Test Number Three. Necropolis...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:53:06 +0100

faitherinhicks:

jakewyattriot:

Test Number Three.

Necropolis will launch at the end of August as an ongoing weekly webcomic. Stay tuned!

-Jake Wyatt

wow. everything about this is perfect.

"I’ve been reading comics for almost as long as I’ve been alive - literally, some of my very first..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:36:37 +0100

“

I’ve been reading comics for almost as long as I’ve been alive - literally, some of my very first memories are buying Batman comics on family car trips and staring at them in my car seat. I study, write about, and teach literature for a living. If I don’t have at least some ability to judge the aesthetic merits of a comic book after all this time, then I honestly don’t know who does: there’s my sense of entitlement for you. I write a comic book blog with a 9 1/2 year paper trail - you can look back through the archives and find every stupid thing I ever wrote, every creator I ever needlessly antagonized, every sweeping generalization I popped off and then painfully retracted. I know a few things about how comic books work. And I know that when a creator says something like “I don’t know if there is a value system to how much time it takes to read something versus how well it is written or how true the writing is,” there is something very profoundly missing in terms of a reciprocal, cordial, sympathetic dialogue between a creator and fan.

The “value system” is simple: if a comic is entertaining, it is doing its job and the reader is left with few if any complaints. If the comic is unentertaining, for whatever reason, than the creator has failed at his or her job. People don’t poke holes in a comic they enjoyed. Pointing out that a Bendis comic is decompressed and doesn’t provide enough story for the reader to feel as if he’s gotten his or her money’s worth should really not be a point of controversy in the year 2013. If a reader tells you they’re not getting their money’s worth from your book, you damn well better apologize. You don’t have to swear to change everything overnight - if you’ve got a style that still succeeds in getting customers in the door, there are obviously sufficient people around who do appreciate what you’re doing. But don’t tell your fans they don’t know how to read. Say you’re sorry and move on.

”

- The Hurting: Age of Ultron. (via guttersnipercomics)

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:48:45 +0100

mburkhardt: ilovecomiccovers: Wolveroach’s drama by Dave Sim...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:36:16 +0100

mburkhardt:

ilovecomiccovers:

Wolveroach’s drama by Dave Sim (Cerebus #55).

Wolveroach: The one, true super-hero!

(F) flourine (U) uranium (C) carbon (K) potassium (Bi) bismuth...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:25:16 +0100

(F) flourine (U) uranium (C) carbon (K) potassium (Bi) bismuth (Tc) technetium (He) helium (S) sulfur (Ge) germanium (Tm) thulium (O) oxygen (Ne) neon (Y) yttrium

quantumblog: Seriously look at this

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:28:14 +0100

quantumblog:

Seriously look at this

quantumblog: Promethea is so much deeper than most fiction it’s...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:28:11 +0100

quantumblog:

Promethea is so much deeper than most fiction it’s embarrassing.

"As far as I can remember, the original idea behind Promethea was to come up with something that..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:26:48 +0100

““As far as I can remember, the original idea behind Promethea was to come up with something that worked as a mainstream superhero character, maybe looked a bit like Wonder Woman or Doctor Strange in a weak light, and which would enable me to explore the magical concepts that I was interested in before a mainstream comics audience that may never have encountered these ideas before (and may very possibly never have wanted to). It seemed to make sense that we should start at the shallow end, with inflatable arm-bands, so as not to alienate the readership from the very outset (the plan was to wait for about twelve issues and then alienate them)””

- Alan Moore (via quantumblog)

fuckyeahfemslash: Anthy and Utena from Utena. By 729726

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:25:54 +0100

fuckyeahfemslash:

Anthy and Utena from Utena.

By 729726

The Tumblr of Andrew Hickey: Have just discovered that the Mindless Ones may well be getting a...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:15:19 +0100

The Tumblr of Andrew Hickey: Have just discovered that the Mindless Ones may well be getting a...:

andrewhickeywriter:

quantumblog:

andrewhickeywriter:

Have just discovered that the Mindless Ones may well be getting a table at Thought Bubble after all. That gives me a big incentive to finish the Doctor Who book, get the Promethea one written, and work on the game I’ve vaguely discussed writing for thecommonswings (who’ll have his own table again)…

1. Write that Promethea book, before someone else does (HINT: it will either be Jess Nevins or Me)
2. Don’t just remind IllogicalVolume, threaten him- never mind his puny tears, get that Filth book done!

Oh, the Promethea book will get done. But that one is going to be a collaboration with my wife, so we’ve had to wait until we both have some free time, when our work and activism schedules don’t conflict too much…

And I use illogicalvolume’s tears as an aphrodisiac, as do all the Mindless Ones. It’s what provides us with our extreme virility. That said, the Filth book would be good…

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:14:08 +0100

qinni: Here, have a pile of bunnies （ノ＠￣∇￣＠）ノ･゜ﾟ･♥ done in...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:45:38 +0100

qinni:

Here, have a pile of bunnies （ノ＠￣∇￣＠）ノ*･゜ﾟ･*♥

done in watercolour. | More daily sketches here

"And then, in 2010, Marvel Comics presented a Spider-Man (the ‘Ultimate’ version) who was 13 years..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:24:49 +0100

“And then, in 2010, Marvel Comics presented a Spider-Man (the ‘Ultimate’ version) who was 13 years old and brown. To see Spider-Man pulling his mask over a tiny brown chin – to see a boy with short curly hair sticking to the ceiling of his bedroom— well, something happened. Dagim has been Spider-Man for two Halloweens in a row. He takes a bath with his Spider-Man and a toy killer whale. He has Spider-Man toothpaste and a Spider-Man toothbrush. If Spider-Man offered medical coverage, I think he would want that, too.
………….
I thought for a while that my son would never be interested in my comics. I was afraid they would just represent another club he couldn’t join: all those big-jawed white guys with their hair parted to the side. But thanks to Spider-Man, my son imagines himself jumping on giant robots and saving the city. I hear him doing that behind the door of his room.”

- NY Times: A Superhero Who Looks Like My Son (via fyeahlilbit2point0)

Butler

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 18:28:53 +0100

Butler:

I wrote a (very) short play in an hour this afternoon. Let me know what you think.

The usual First Draft, Fast Fiction caveats apply.

giantworld: Macro photo setup :) by Igor Shpilenok -...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:28:23 +0100

giantworld:

Macro photo setup :) by Igor Shpilenok - http://bit.ly/11j3ieE

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:16:15 +0100

iamdavidbrothers: Well dang, this is real now

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:33:52 +0100

iamdavidbrothers:

Well dang, this is real now

Essentially Dazzling

‘Black Skinhead’ by Kanye Westdoubt you heard of this obscure...

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"Revolution requires a spark, and West has chosen to be that spark, albeit one that recalls a..."

faitherinhicks: jakewyattriot: Test Number Three. Necropolis...

"I’ve been reading comics for almost as long as I’ve been alive - literally, some of my very first..."

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mburkhardt: ilovecomiccovers: Wolveroach’s drama by Dave Sim...

(F) flourine (U) uranium (C) carbon (K) potassium (Bi) bismuth...

quantumblog: Seriously look at this

quantumblog: Promethea is so much deeper than most fiction it’s...

"As far as I can remember, the original idea behind Promethea was to come up with something that..."

fuckyeahfemslash: Anthy and Utena from Utena. By 729726

The Tumblr of Andrew Hickey: Have just discovered that the Mindless Ones may well be getting a...

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qinni: Here, have a pile of bunnies （ノ＠￣∇￣＠）ノ*･゜ﾟ･*♥ done in...

"And then, in 2010, Marvel Comics presented a Spider-Man (the ‘Ultimate’ version) who was 13 years..."

Butler

giantworld: Macro photo setup :) by Igor Shpilenok -...

Photo

iamdavidbrothers: Well dang, this is real now

qinni: Here, have a pile of bunnies （ノ＠￣∇￣＠）ノ･゜ﾟ･♥ done in...