Color Me Hip: The Hipster Coloring Book, 1962
Hipsters ain’t what they used to be. Once upon a time, hipsters were seen as unreconstructed Glenn Quagmires (“Giggity”), who lived in fashionable penthouse apartments…
Author: Paul Gallagher Archives: 06/2017
Painting with Light: Incredible portrait photographs of young outsiders
‘Iris’ (2011). At a cursory glance, I thought I was viewing some small figure detail from a Baroque painting or maybe a canvas by a…
Ralph Steadman’s grotesquely brilliant illustrations for Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’
George Orwell had difficulty in getting Animal Farm published in the 1940s. His satirical fable about a farm being taken over by a cowardly, power-mad…
War Games: A 15th-century guide to violent combat
So, you want to learn how to fight like one of the world’s great duelists? Or maybe like a warrior from Game of Thrones? How…
Almost Grown: Sublime photographs of American teenagers 1969-1984
Charlie, Jones Beach, 1976. Teenager: that tricksy time when you’re no longer a child but not quite yet the adult. When hormones light fires and…
Tijuana Bibles: Cheap, nasty, porno comic books featuring Mickey, Donald, Popeye, & more (Very NSFW)
Tijuana Bibles were eight-page, hand-sized comic books featuring well-known cartoon characters, sporting heroes, and Hollywood film stars in a sequence of hardcore sexual shenanigans. They…