Love’s Secret Domain – The Haunted and Intimate World of 1990’s Japanese Game Linda³
In the late 1990s, it was not uncommon for fictions on mainstream to reflect a strong religiosity,...
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Category: ARTICLES
The Strange and Toxic World of American Comic Book YouTube Commentators.
For the last two years I have been doing a deep dive into comic book related YouTube channels.I...
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Some Fun Facts About Australia’s Leaders Over The Years
AKA A Brief Retrospective of Australian Prime Ministers With the prospect of another federal...
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Cop Shoot Cop and the Poetics of Confrontation
“Do not accept what you can’t change,Change what you cannot accept.” — Cop Shoot Cop, “Chameleon...
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A Brief History of Alternative and Underground Manga
Manga’s Origins Japan has a long history of pictorial story telling – A famous early example...
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The Nudity of Death: On ‘Texas Serenade’ by The Gun Club
I have been criminally lucky that I’ve not lost many friends at this point in my life, but luck...
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What’s Up With The Comics Scene These Days?
Have you ever thought to yourself – What the fuck is going on with comics these days? Well...
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The Real Comics Underground – How Corporate Funded Comics Overshadow Real Underground Comics.
I am not a fan of the autobiographical comics movement. I think it was a major time-wasting...
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A Poustomangas In Melbourne: Re-Reading Christos Tsiolkas’s “Loaded”
“To be free, for me as a Greek, is to be a whore,” declares Ari, the chief protagonist and...
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The Most Dangerous Books on Earth: An Essay on Dangerous Ideas
What would you consider the most dangerous book you have ever read?Was it the atonal ultraviolence...
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Remembering The Bear: Weird Times With Augustus Owsley Stanley III
Sometimes your heroes don’t give good advice. It was 1998, I was 14 years old, and I had just...
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Nangs and Poppers: Thoughts On Legislating Household Inhalants Nitrous Oxide and Amyl Nitrate In Australia
Every high-school reprobate has heard of some home-remedy, DIY, MacGuyver-esque means of using...
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