Did Zombie Flash Mobs Help Pave the Way for Occupy Wall Street?
What does it mean when tons of people take to the streets dressed as the walking dead? With no political or artistic agenda, other than to shuffle around threatening to eat your brains? In this excerpt from the academic essay collection Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human — which was published…
Why I love Sam Kieth, the most grounded madman in comic books
Since the 1980s, comic artist and Maxx creator Sam Kieth has been one of medium’s finest spinners of tripped-out phantasmagoria. Here, Anna Breslaw looks back, forward, and directly at Kieth and discusses why his works have resonated with her over the years. Kids would write in and say things like: ‘Wolverine’s okay, but his back…
Did bigfoot really exist?
In a manner of speaking, yes, Bigfoot did exist — although, perhaps not in the way many modern day cryptid enthusiasts surmise. In a piece written for Smithsonian’s Hominid Hunting, Erin Wayman serves up the facts on Gigantopithecus — the car-sized quadruped that went extinct long before humans ever speculated about the existence of a…