You met me at a very strange time in my life.
— Narrator
Thoughts
Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
— 1984
Wire Anatomy by Federico Carbajal.
Dinosaurs are back on the prowl in Darius Twin’s amazing light paintings.
Bat for Lashes - What’s a Girl to Do?
An Existential Life: In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His... →
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God…
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If you’re in LA, come check out the Caffe Luxxe staff latte art throw down on June 19! Someone’s gotta drink ‘em…
First Gay Marriage in a Comic Book →
20 years after he was first outed, X-Men’s Northstar, the first openly gay superhero, will be wed this summer.
Ever since I wrote a paper on it in college, I’ve been fascinated and excited by the way comic authors and artists echo and push a stance of equality and acceptance in cultural debates. From the first african-american superheroes in the 60s to the establishment of every-male-superhero’s-female-counterpart (I’m all for feminism, but She-Hulk? Really?) to the modern debate on sexual acceptance and marriage rights, you can trace through comics the history of an art form that is not about incredible, supranormal individuals saving society, but the indelible, common issues that face it which no superpower can address.
