Pretty sure we've linked to the fine and mighty Apropos of Something comics re-mixes before, but we felt the Superman Returns one needed a little attention. The text is a spoiler if you haven't seen the movie... although "spoiler" feels like kind of a strong word for that movie.
Thanks to Pam
Screenhead favorites Culturepulp truck on down to an interview with Richard Linklater and discuss the ins and outs of his animated Philip K Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly, as well as Dick himself, one of the more interesting sci-fi authors to exist not just for his fabulous writing but his schizophrenia-induced paranoia.
MIKE RUSSELL: So this interview is actually for a comic strip.
RICHARD LINKLATER: Okay. Should I answer in a comic way?
The Culturepulp Q&A: Richard Linklater
Moresukine is comic artist Dirk Schwieger's journal of his adventures in Japan. Slices of Dirk's life kept neatly in a Moleskine notebook ("Moresukine" being an approximation of the Japanese pronunciation for Moleskine) become a compelling online read as he books around Japan guided by suggestions from his readers. Dirk's style is crisp and to the point, and it makes for a fascinating bit of voyeurism. In the latest instalment, Dirk unflinchingly encounters the potentially deadly puffer fish dish Fugu, which is the exact opposite of how we ourselves once encountered it. We're usually willing to die for relatively little reward, but not for a thin slice of mucus.
Moresukine
ASSIGNMENT 24: fugu
Via American Walrus
Mike Russell bids a fond farewell to photo journalist, high diver, 70 year Boy Scout, jazz photographer, globe trotter, musical saw maestro, and not surprisingly, master storyteller, Allan deLay. Allan died as we tend to love-- slumped over his desk at work.
CulturePulp 047: The Last Time I Saw Allan deLay
Some new stuff from the mighty Ethan Persoff: first a couple of 1950s A-Bomb comics which take us back to that simpler time when we could all be killed at once in one large global war, instead of the boring drag of this piecemeal annihilation that we have today.
If an a-bomb falls (1951)
The h-bomb and you (1954)
Also not to be missed is the big-fright-for-you-to-get-right 1980s comic TOUGH TO BE FREE: A MESSAGE ABOUT SNIFFING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Kids, don't touch that... well whipped creme or whatever. You'll have wars to fight in later and you can't do that retarded. At least not until the recruitment number dip low enough. Note that oft-pulled anti-drug trick of telling kids what not to do because you want them to be free to make choices.
Finally, don't miss out on the mellow tones of the fine musical offerings new to the site; a ditty about hypnotism and a little number called SNAP.
Mike Russell's "journalism comic strip" CulturePulp goes to the Slamdance film festival, Slamdance being the other film festival in Park City Utah, one in which bitty shoestring movies most people will never see get their Warhol 15 ... sort of like the Sex Pistols to Sundance's Journey. It's where Napoleon Dynamite became Napoleon Dynamite, and where The Call of Cthulhu has ended up. We wondered about that.
CulturePulp 046: Postcards from Park City
Gordon McAlpin illustrates a panel discussion between Chris Ware, Seth, and Ivan Brunetti. A fantastic peek into what it is like to draw a comic strip in particular, and work as a free lance artist in general. There are relatively few suicides in the comics industry.
A Comics Panel [StrippedBooks.com]
Ethan Persoff presents us the usual nuggets of lost comics awesome we've come to expect with these Roe V Wade inspired strips from 1973. First the question raising Abortion Eve, which raises provocative thoughts like "has the guy who has drawn this ever actually seen a human head before" and "maybe he should open a window and switch to an electric stove just to be safe." At the Samuel Alito end of the comics spectrum is the strip for the never-questioning anything ever crowd Who Killed Junior, in which babies are murdered with extreme prejudice, in accordance to the desires of The Homo Cabal.
CulturePulp vs. the Voodoo Doughnut wedding-- Oregonian Mike Russell observes some wedded bliss from the edge of the abyss: "This week, I attend a legal wedding at [Voodoo Doughnut] an all-night doughnut shop in Portland, Oregon. Discussed: Rings in coffins. Pepto-Bismol and Nyquil-flavored doughnuts, customers named Elvis..."
Voodoo and Doughnuts. We love this. Someone marry us.
CulturePulp 045: Voodoo Wedding
Perhaps freshly dead Fred the Baker can be resurrected through Voodoo for the honeymoon.
It'd been so long since we first noticed graphic novel upstart NYC2123 that we'd forgotten about it until we saw it mentioned on Metafitler. Downloadable to PSPs or readable on the web, it's your standard 80s style cyberpunk, but nicely presented and fairly cool.
NYC2123
Also a video NYC2123 / Futurama mashup, and a behind the scenes peek.
Comedian Todd Levin discovers web comics while preparing for The Strip Show:
"The first comic I presented was a two-character strip called KOO KOO & NUTTERSBY. The premise was that I was experimenting in creating likable characters but I quickly realized I didn't know how to draw, and didn't know how to find characters who had much to say to each other; all I had was a good name. Here is the strip"
Also not to be missed is the very special political episode of the strip.
More here: HOW TO HAVE A FANCY WEEK [tremble.com]
Steve Purcell's excellent Sam & Max re-animate after a brief decade or so of a nap in the form of a web-comic to promote the new Sam and Max game. Be sure to mouse over the panels
Sam & Max Chapter one: The Big Sleep [telltalegames]
