Paperback to the Future: Best of British science-fiction covers from the 1950s
The back story of Britain in the fifties reads like the checklist for a Star Wars script. The war is over, the Empire is dying…
Pop Culture Archives: 04/2017
Oh, you pretty thing! Polaroid portraits of Andy Warhol in drag
Andy Warhol in drag taken with a polaroid camera. Back in 2013 auction house Christie’s sold off 62 of Andy Warhol’s Polaroid photos for the…
Classic love and heartbreak songs illustrated in the style of Stephen King horror paperbacks
Artist Butcher Billy took iconic love and heartbreak songs and reimagined them as if they were Stephen King horror novels. They’re actually quite amusing and…
The Sex Pistols, The Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees on early TV documentary ‘Punk’ from 1976
There had been a killing. But no one was quite certain where it had happened or where the body was hidden. Maybe it was in…
The story of illustrator Joe Shuster: From ‘Superman’ to super sleaze
The cover of ‘Nights of Horror’ (volume one) illustrated by Joe Shuster. In 1923 Joe Shuster and his family moved away from their home in…
Martian chronicles: Fantastic covers for UFO comics of the 1960s & 70s
Little green men ain’t what they used to be. We don’t need Sean Spicer to confirm that aliens have already landed and have squeezed their…
The hard hitting hair metal puppet journalism of Japan’s ‘Pure Rock Digest’
Given its highly visual element, 80s glam metal was tailor-made for the MTV age. It was born, matured and died on heavy video rotation, perhaps…
Move over Tom of Finland; now there’s ‘Glenn (Danzig) of Finland’
This is totally ridiculous, but yet it exists: A Glenn of Finland skate deck! The art is by Sean Cliver and it’s manufactured through Paisley.…