Star Wars VII is set to shoot on a small, rocky island off the coast of Ireland, Skellig Michael. The location was chosen because of the island’s distinctive, craggy rock formations and its lush landscape. UNESCO though, is concerned that the shoot might interfere with the island’s inhabitants: birds. Skellig Michael, home to puffins, manx shearwaters,…
Multifarious: Basquiat, Bovey, and Chainsaw Robot Art
The Art Gallery of Ontario will host the first, large-scale thematic examination of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work. Huzzah! “Basquiat,” curated by Austrian art historian Dieter Buchhart, will open on February 7 and collects over 140 paintings and drawings by the celebrated artist. — Megan
R/W: “That Certain Female”
Word Nerdery The English word female, derived from the Old French femelle, derived from the Medieval Latin femella, which is itself a diminutive of femina. Whew! Where femina meant woman, femella meant young girl. Now let’s talk about male. It’s likewise derived from Old French, masle was the adjectival form and mâle the noun form….
Death Comes for Archie: Life With Archie #36
Life With Archie #36 Paul Kupperberg (W), Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy, Jim Amash (A) Archie Comics Life With Archie # 36 opens slow, with the eponymous everyteen hero, Archie Andrews, looking back on his life and adventures in Riverdale. Life With Archie is not the Double Digests you might remember, it’s an adventure book, heavy…
Clone Club Takes On Comics! Orphan Black Is Coming to IDW
Orphan Black is a now comic! Rejoice! Coming soon from IDW — if you can call 2015 soon, and I guess I can — the ongoing series will tread new ground in the Orphan Black universe. Rather than retell episodes, or fill in the gaps, the series will focus on brand new stories — given…
We’re looking for an ARTS EDITOR
Do you love sequential art? Do you also love fine arts? And bookmaking? And the ways they all intersect? Oh, hey. You might just be our new arts editor! THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED.
We’re looking for a LIFESTYLE EDITOR
Are you all about crafting, DIYing, sporting, or adventuring? Do you you give all of your hobbies a geeky twist? Are you looking for a new challenge? You might just be our new Lifestyle Editor! #jazzfingers THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED.
Multifarious: An Art and Design Link Blog
Oh hello. Welcome to our weekend art and design link blog. Good reads, things that catch our eye, and excellent tutorials, Multifarious will be a mixed bag of art and design type things.
R/W: Do Not Stray From the Subject
Welcome back to R/W, your weekend roundup of essays and articles on reading, writing, and literacy. This week, the CIA style manual, Iggy Azalea, and The Fault In Our Stars bust into the dusty halls of the literary eeeelite.
Kickstarter of the Week: Fly the Colour Fantastica
Fly the Colour Fantastica is an Australian comics anthology that explores story and storytelling through colour. Twelve local artists (Alicia Braumberger, Alisha Jade, Rebecca Hayes, Eri Kashima, Eevien Tan, Sam Jacobin, Nadia Attlee, Sai Nitivoranant, Sheree Chuang, Tash Sim, Vikki Ong, and Viet-My Bui) will work with limited but brilliant colour palates to tell stories…
Johnny Canuck Back In Print! Rachel Richey On the Hows and Whys of Reprinting 1940s Comic Books
Later this month, Canadian comics historian Rachel Richey will launch a Kickstarter campaign to reprint the adventures of Canadian wartime superhero, Johnny Canuck. Johnny was an adventurer-hero, a young soldier who was determined to take the fight to Hitler himself. All twenty-eight issues of Johnny Canuck will be reprinted in one volume with CGA Comics and…
Reading Diaries: Super Spies, Sexy Witches, and Shakesdude
Megan: This month I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare bio. My reading time is still more constrained than I’d like, so I’ve been reading it on my Kobo whenever I can get a few minutes to myself. I’ve not read much Bryson but I’ve been told that this book is the Brysoniest. It feels like…