Last year, Flame Tree Press published Adventures in Space: New Short Stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers. In this anthology, consulting editor Patrick Parrinder and honourary editor Yao Haijun assembled a set of Chinese stories, all newly translated by Alex Woodend, and placed them alongside new (or, at least, fairly recent) English-language work…
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Mondo Zombie (2006)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
ESSAY: Nature and War Memory in Machiko Kyō’s Cocoon
Machiko Kyō’s 2011 graphic novel Cocoon tells a harrowing story based on the historical circumstances of a group of teenage girls who died in Okinawa during the Pacific War. An animated adaptation of Cocoon is scheduled to be released in Summer 2025, bringing this tragic chapter of Japanese history to a new generation. Although Cocoon…
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Return of the Living Dead 4 & 5 (2005)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
ESSAY: Spider-Man 2 at 20: A Retrospective
Can you believe it? Spider-Man 2 came out twenty years ago today! It premiered at what was then known as the Mann Village Theater on June 25, 2004, before its nationwide release five days later.
Is Anime Transing Our Teens? Inside a Moral Panic
Anybody familiar with the weirder corners of Reagan-era pop culture must surely be aware of a notorious group by the name of Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons (BADD). Founded in 1983 and incorporated as a non-profit entity the following year, BADD was built on the premise that fantasy role-playing games were turning youngsters towards black…
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Day of the Dead 2 (2005)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Land of the Dead (2005)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Toe Tags (2004-5)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Barbara’s Zombie Chronicles (2004)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.
ESSAY: The Punk Rock of Geneviève Castrée
I became interested in artful comic books and strange, beautiful, punk independent music in the early to mid-2000s (for I wanted to make comic books and punk music, and other kinds of art), and so it was by luck, chance or providence that I became aware of the artwork and music of the Quebecois artist…
ESSAY: Dead at 55: Dawn of the Dead Remake (2004)
Continuing a series that celebrates the fifty-fifth anniversary of Night of the Living Dead with a look at the classic zombie film and its many follow-ups.