Art
- Amazing Concept Art That Makes You Wish Aliens Would Come and Kill Us All
- Could a 3-D printer be the last toy your kid will ever need?
- Cthulhu / Peanuts Mash-Up
- Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ Illustrated by Paul Gustave Doré
- Pumpkin Massacre in imitation of Calvin and Hobbes’ snowman massacre
- Serenity Halloween Corgi
- What if Charles Schulz illustrated H.P. Lovecraft?
Comics
- Interview: NYCC ’11 Interview with Dark Horse Editor Scott Allie
- 10 Great HORROR Comics, From Golden Age to Now
- Are women comic book fans as rare as unicorns?
- In February, DC Comics imprint Vertigo will finally reprint Flex Mentallo by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. Vertigo unveiled a new piece of artwork by Quitely that will serve as the cover to the new deluxe edition. Long regarded as one of the finest superhero comics ever published, heavily annotated online, and subject of much study, the work has been out of print since its initial publication in 1996 due to a lawsuit with bodybuilder Charles Atlas’s company. Atlas claimed that the title character infringed on his image, but DC successfully argued that Flex Mentallo’s origin was a parody of Atlas’s famous print ad, “The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac“. Despite its victory, DC had decided not to reprint the book and original issues of it often go for $30 or more each on eBay,
though most who’ve read it at this point have done so via scanned copies from BitTorrent. When the new deluxe edition is finally published in February, it will leave Alan Moore’s Marvelman/Miracleman as one of the last great superhero stories still waiting to be reprinted (though Marvel is clearly working on that, too).
Film
- Interview: Jennifer Lawrence on The Hunger Games: “It’s Not Twilight”
- Interview: Nick and Brian (BriTANick) answer your Much Ado questions.
- The 17 Most Awesome Sword-And-Sorcery Movies Ever Made
- How Celebrities Took Over Cartoon Voice Acting
- Infographic: The Formula for Complete and Utter BAYHEM or, How Michael Bay has Made Billions in Box Offices Worldwide.
- Meet the Sci-Fi Author Who Inspired ‘Real Steel’ and a Dozen Other Films
Internet
- Infographic: The Official Zombie Survival Guide
Literature
- Interview: Gregory Maguire Wraps Up ‘Wicked’ Series
- Interview: Paris Review interviews William Gibson.
- Interview: Strange Horizons interviews John Hornor Jacobs of Southern Gods.
- Interview: Tesco Books Blog talks to Stephen King about 11/22/63.
- Interview: Terry Brooks on the High Druid of Shannara
- News: New Nook Color Ready For Launch
- News: Wall Street Journal to Add E-Book Bestseller Lists
- A bloody good read: ‘Dracula’ author’s journal found
- E-book market is a complicated mess, says TeleRead
Science
- How strange can space-time get?
- How the World’s Oldest Diamond Monopoly is Trying to Become an IT Juggernaut by creating diamond microchips like in the sci-fi series “Charlie Jade”
- Searching for the ‘Moore’s Law’ of Space
- The Zombie map of the world
Technology
- South Korea Says Good-Bye To Print Textbooks, Plans To Digitize Curriculum
- Toyota: Meet your robo-nurse
- Yesterday’s Tomorrow: A Look at Space Stations That Never Were
Television
- The 10 Most Explosively Masculine Captain Kirk Battle Techniques
- The 10 Most Mortifying Seasons of Science Fiction and Fantasy TV Shows
- Buffy – Myth, Metaphor and Morality.
- Our Final Terra Nova Recap: 25 Reasons We’re Quitting This Show. I agree whole-heartedly, but NYMag’s revelation is about three episodes overdue.
- Scary-Good TV: The Best Halloween Specials Ever
