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My last Tweet on the religious comics of Jack Chick sent me down a rabbit hole in search of religious comics. I found these, all published by Spire Christian Comics. GOD’S SMUGGLER is my favourite but it’s had to go past the depiction of the rapture in THERE’S A NEW WORLD COMING
SAN FRANCISCO HUSTLER, Gay Parisian Press, 1970. Among numerous gay pulps by Chicago novelist, poet & university professor Samuel Stewart, as Phil Andros. I'm fascinated by Stewart & his many lives, incl highly literate homosexual smut writer & have just ordered a 2010 bio on him
Last night’s viewing really got under my skin - in a good way. Giulio Petroni’s TEPAPA (1969). Not as raucous & fast paced as Sergio Corbucci’s Zapata westerns but much more politically sharp. Particularly loved the ending. “I did not like him. The gringo did not like Mexico.”
I have been wanting to catch tonight’s film for ages, Sergio Sollima’s THE BIG GUNDOWN (1966). And check out the range of amazing range of posters for it.
Since first writing about it in my 2019 book STICKING IT TO THE MAN, I've been looking for pulp & popular fiction titles that engaged with the Vietnam War in the 60s & 70s. My latest Pulp Curry post is an update on my, admittedly, rather paltry findings
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From retro-futurism to afrofuturism, spaced out stoner rock to atomic funk & robot rock, a @Spotify playlist made by my co-editor Iain McIntyre, to accompany our book DANGEROUS VISIONS & NEW WORLDS: RADICAL SCIENCE FICTION 1950-1985,
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Tonight’s film, GINGER SNAPS (2000). A first time watch & all I can say is that there are a lot of things going on in this one.
Slowly working my way through some Satanic possession films as prep for guesting on the upcoming @proboothcast episode on Paul Wendkos's THE MEPHISTO WALTZ (1971). Tonight it's the little known Australian effort, ALISON'S BIRTHDAY (1981).
Love these Frank Brunner illustrations for Robert E Howard’s Bran Mak Morn. ‘Worms of the Earth’ is among my favourite Howard tales. I have Karl Edward Wagner’s sequel to it. Is there any other Bran Mak Morn pastiche fiction worth getting? Did Howard do much more with Morn?
Fresh on my site, a few thoughts as we approach the 50th anniversary of Ted Kotcheff's film, WAKE IN FRIGHT. And while I'm talking about it, I love these posters. Clockwise: America, Japan, Poland and Australia.
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