The strange allure of PAN Books: Vintage cult film, TV tie-in and fab fiction book covers
Shelflife. The books you keep tell the story of your own life. Clearing out boxes of books and personal belongings of lives once lived, I…
Art Archives: 05/2017
‘Female Trouble’ dolls and other imagined retro toys based on John Waters films
Divine as “Dawn Davenport” doll Opening today at La MaMa Galleria at 47 Great Jones Street in Manhattan (and there until June 24) is “Lost…
Illustrations of films by Dario Argento, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott & more from Cinefantastique
The cover of Cinefantastique magazine featuring an image of Asia Argento, a bunch of blood and a razor blade with a job to do. The…
Cum for Me: Intimate photographs of men and women at the point of orgasm
Kristina. We reveal ourselves in unguarded moments. Those instances of joy, happiness, fear, and anger–when emotions burst forth uncontrollably. Photographer Alina Cara Oswald had been…
‘Blade Runner’: The Marvel Comics adaptation
Never trust a critic. Most of them know fuck all. Strange as it may seem now, Ridley Scott’s movie Blade Runner received a decidedly mixed…
Terrifying nuns looking down their noses at you
A ‘cabinet card’ featuring an image of a nun from Quebec. Notice the strategically placed crown of thorns to the left on the table. After…
A Beatles fan is hunting down all the original photos from the ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ cover
It’s obvious almost to the point of tedium to point out that the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, along with all of its…
Murder, self-crucifixion & suicide by guillotine: Old-school paper ‘The Illustrated Police News’
July, 1895. The first issue of what is best described as a pioneering tabloid-style publication, The Illustrated Police News hit the street corners of London…
‘Horror Comic Books’: A vintage news report on the evils of reading
EC’s ‘Crime SuspenStories‘ No. 22, May 1954 In the hard “g” Los Angeles of the fifties, Confidential File was the name of Paul Coates’ column…
The Son of Satan: That time Marvel Comics got into the Antichrist
Three little words can change everything. Think of all the times you’ve said “I love you,” or “I hate you,” or even just asked “How…