Take Art: Fernando Chamarelli

I think I found Fernando Chamarelli using stumbleupon to browse Flickr so it was one of those wonderful fortuitous moments that occasionally lead us somewhere that we are going to enjoy visiting many times.
His profile describes the influence of Brazilian and Pre-Columbian art upon his work but as well as seeing that I see many [...]

Indie Bookshelf

Check out this great resource for independent writers and fans of independent literature. Have an independently produced book, cd or any other kind of media? Then this is the place you need to be.
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Loom

Loom is brought to you by five creative spirits who are weaving together their separate visions into a unique experience that combines fiction, art, photography, music, and poetry. Loom offers something for everyone. Please go and check it out.

Turn The Page: Memoirs Of An Exquisite Mephistophelian by Mike Padilla

My wife’s BFF, all-round good guy and fucking polymath talent, artist and poet Mike Padilla has a book out and though I have been a bit slow to hip you all to it — here you go: Click The Book Cover and go and get yourself a great read and support great poetry!
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Comicsphere: Rule Of Death By Daniel Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble

I found this strip through Daniel Merlin Goodbrey who is also the writer on Necessary Monsters another site which I check on regularly.
Noble’s artwork is perhaps an acquired taste but one which I found myself getting hooked on pretty quickly — it has an edgy simplicity that gives the strip a raw and atmospheric feel [...]

Comicsphere: How To Be Bulletproof by Kirt E Burdick

This comic has a great feel from the start — an atmosphere that permeates from the establishing panels of the first installment right through to the current week’s episode. It has grit — the same kind of grit that pumped in the blood of those old pulp detective stories; the big heart and the situation [...]

Comicsphere: Helen Killer by Andrew Kreisberg

I have to admit to knowing very little about the real Helen Keller, but she is one of those people whose names floats around the ether and is known even if you don’t know exactly what she is famous for. I think I first heard her name being used as an insult by someone who [...]

Comicsphere: Freakangels Friday Fury

Last week the gun was fired — this week the projectiles hit their target. You know what the first thought was that popped into my head? Too damned easy. And a full on frontal assault against a group like the Freakangels? I know the New Cross crew and Mudlarks are being sold as perhaps not [...]

Comicsphere: Hellboy

It remains for me and a lot of people, including Mike Mignola the creator of Hellboy, the preserve of the comic books which spawned him to explore the true nature and depths of the character. I think my first exposure was The Chained Coffin & Other Stories and the whole style of both the artwork [...]

Loom

Warren Ellis asks questions a lot — he wonders what shape the future might take sometimes: the future of science fiction; the future of the internet and its content. In answer to a piece called The Patchwork Years, which looked at the shift from curation sites to sites which produce original content, five of us [...]