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Show Notes:
Peter’s picks:
Feeling more nostalgic than usual with the recent death of my dad, so have been looking at some cool stuff from the 70s that my father turned me onto at the time, such as Aurora monster models, and the Warren Publishing archives on archive.org. On that note, Ares Magazine successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to relaunch the magazine and you can pre-order one now.
Raagnagrok’s Man Women Death Birth Infinity by Mark Pilkington and Zali Krisha. Related, this is a good time to browse Pilkington’s press Strange Attractor for the best in the underground occult-weirdness.
Mark Waid just completed his run on Daredevil, one of the best superhero comics in years.
Dean’s picks
Whoever runs @DietCoke’s twitter account is a master of the absurd
Mark’s picks:
Shelf Space: Modern Package Design 1945-1965This era was a golden age for package design – cereal boxes, plastic soap bottles, TV dinners, motor oil. It’s not about retro, it’s about better. You can buy this book for one cent on Amazon. I run an occasional “Then and Now” post on Boing Boing/
The Voyeurs by Gabrielle Bell. Funny autobiographical comic books stories written by an introvert.
Frazettagirls on Instagram.
And much more!